Antichrist, Part 2

Posted on April 22, 2013 by admin

Before I could write about Lars von Trier’s movie, I had to return to what John the Apostle had to say about antichrist (ἀντίχριστος).^[1] 1 John 2:3-6 served as a preface and point of departure for that study.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments. The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person. But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love (ἀγάπη)^[2] of God has been perfected (τετελείωται, a form of τελειόω).^[3]

In other words God’s ἀγάπη, when it is perfected, empowers me to keep his commandments. For this is the love (ἀγάπη) of God: that we keep his commandments, John penned later in the same letter. And his commandments do not weigh us down, because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.^[4] Or as Paul said, ἀγάπη is the fulfillment of the law,^[5] and, the one bringing forth in you both the desire (θέλειν)^[6] and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.^[7]

God’s ἀγάπη is perfected in me by faith: we have come to know and to believe the love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη) that God has in us. God is love (ἀγάπη), and the one who resides in love (ἀγάπη) resides in God, and God resides in him [Table]. By this love (ἀγάπη) is perfected (τετελείωται, a form of τελειόω) with us…^[8] Not only the ἀγάπη but the faith was supplied by God—But the fruit of the Spirit is love (ἀγάπη), joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness (πίστις)^[9]—if I had but gotten out of his way. My religious mind stumbled over John’s statement, The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.^[10]

I thought I could avoid the stigma of being called a liar and prove myself true by obeying—first the law then Paul’s definition of love—in my own strength. I set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!^[11] A note in the NET on the phrase love of God (1 John 5:3 NET), reads: “Once again the genitive could be understood as (1) objective, (2) subjective, or (3) both. Here an objective sense is more likely (believers’ love for God) because in the previous verse it is clear that God is the object of believers’ love.” What is far more obvious to me now is that my love for God was not sufficient to keep his commandments, and all my efforts to do so did weigh [me] down, when compared to being buoyed up by the fruit of his Spirit.

Still, I had received the desire (θέλειν) to keep his commandments, though God’s love was not yet perfected in me. For I want (θέλειν) to do the good, Paul lamented in Romans, but I cannot do it.^[12] My friends’ desires, on the other hand, did not suddenly change. And nothing I said mattered to them. Their ongoing sinful behavior tormented me. Why don’t they see? I wondered.

Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you,^[13] Paul replied when the Lord had said to him, Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.^[14] And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, Paul continued, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.^[15] It seemed to me that since someone like I was had changed (repented) that everyone should change. By this we know that we are in him, John wrote. The one who says he resides in God ought (ὀφείλει, a form of ὀφείλω)^[16] himself to walk just as Jesus walked.^[17]

There is nothing wrong with translating ὀφείλει ought: “We have a law, and according to our law he ought (ὀφείλει, a form of ὀφείλω) to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”^[18] religious leaders said of Jesus. But with my predilection for proving myself—“what I could do for God”—I need to remember that to owe is the primary meaning of ὀφείλει: Now if [Onesimus] has defrauded you of anything, Paul wrote Philemon, or owes (ὀφείλει, a form of ὀφείλω) you anything, charge what he owes to me.^[19] My religious mind has used ought to turn John’s statement on its head. I have believed that anything but absolute conformity on my part to walk just as Jesus walked is proof that I am not in him and do not reside in God, despite the fact that a sense of obligation, that I owe this to Him, has been with me since I believed. My friends did not think they owed this to God, or anyone else, simply because I began to believe.

Children, it is the last hour, John wrote, and just as you heard that the antichrist (ἀντίχριστος) is coming, so now many antichrists (ἀντίχριστοι, a form of ἀντίχριστος) have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour. They went out (ἐξῆλθαν, a form of ἐξέρχομαι)^[20] from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained (μεμενήκεισαν, a form of μένω)^[21] with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.^[22] And I think 1 John 2:3-6 has more to do with the antichrists’ point of departure—They went out from us—than any geographical or institutional location.

To sense the obligation to walk just as Jesus walked while being imperfect in God’s love is a state of dynamic tension. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, seeking to obey the law or Paul’s definition of love in my own strength was a way to ease that tension. After all, no one, not even Jesus, could expect me to be as perfect as He is in my own strength. I was completely aware that I was easing that tension when I deliberately abandoned my obligation to walk just as Jesus walked because “it didn’t matter what I did, because I was forgiven and because I was not under law but under grace” (as some of my new friends interpreted and preached the Apostle Paul).

Still, He always brought me back from the latter excursions: Now as for you, John wrote, the anointing that you received from him resides (μένει, another form of μένω)^[23] in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside (μένετε, another form of μένω) in him.^[24] If you love me, Jesus said, you will obey (τηρήσετε, a form of τηρέω) my commandments. Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides (μένει) with you and will be in (ἐν)^[25] you.^[26]

The former excursions (though less like excursions and more like my lifestyle) were a bit more intractable. After all, wasn’t God pleased by my noble efforts to keep the law or Paul’s definition of love? Who is the liar, John wrote, but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son. Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.^[27]

I didn’t deny Jesus with my mouth. I honored Him with my lips. But in my heart I rejected the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness in favor of my own righteousness derived from the law^[28] or Paul’s definition of ἀγάπη. I was certainly hearing some of the things I’ve written about here. I did attempt from time to time to trust Him with MY righteousness. It wasn’t that I was better somehow at it than He was. It was that I demanded 100% compliance from Him (e.g., from me when He was in charge) but I was much more lenient with myself when I took control.

Dear friends, John continued, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.^[29] For me now this means more than paying lip service to Jesus. Does the spirit encourage me to trust God’s credited righteousness, to rely on the fruit of his Spirit? Or does the spirit encourage me to turn back to my own ways, striving in my own strength to keep his commandments?

Again John wrote of antichrist: But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another. (Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it. For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist! Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.^[30]

John wrote his own ode to the love that fulfills the law (1 John 4:7-19 NET).

Dear friends, let us love (ἀγαπῶμεν, a form of ἀγαπάω) one another, because love (ἀγάπη) is from God, and everyone who loves (ἀγαπῶν, another form of ἀγαπάω) has been fathered by God and knows God. The person who does not love (ἀγαπῶν, another form of ἀγαπάω) does not know God, because God is love (ἀγάπη). By this the love (ἀγάπη) of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. In this is love (ἀγάπη): not that we have loved (ἠγαπήκαμεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) God, but that he loved (ἠγάπησεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear friends, if God so loved (ἠγάπησεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) us, then we also ought (ὀφείλομεν, another form of ὀφείλω) to love (ἀγαπᾶν, another form of ἀγαπάω) one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love (ἀγαπῶμεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) one another, God resides in us, and his love (ἀγάπη) is perfected (τετελειωμένη, another form of τελειόω) in us. By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God. And we have come to know and to believe the love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη) that God has in us. God is love (ἀγάπη), and the one who resides in love (ἀγάπη) resides in God, and God resides^[31] in him [Table]. By this love (ἀγάπη) is perfected (τετελείωται) with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love (ἀγάπη), but perfect (τελεία, a form of τέλειος)^[32] love (ἀγάπη) drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected (τετελείωται) in love (ἀγάπη). We love (ἀγαπῶμεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) because he loved (ἠγάπησεν, another form of ἀγαπάω) us first.

Though Paul didn’t use the word antichrist he described a similar phenomenon of a religious person in whom God’s love is not perfected (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NET).

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη), I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη), I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love (ἀγάπην, another form of ἀγάπη), I receive no benefit.

The meaning (in words) of ἀγάπη does not come from an understanding of a word in the Greek language, but from the following (1 Corinthians 13:4-13 NET):

Love (ἀγάπη) is patient, love (ἀγάπη) is kind, it is not envious. Love (ἀγάπη) does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love (ἀγάπη) never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when what is perfect (τέλειον, another form of τέλειος) comes, the partial will be set aside. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love (ἀγάπη). But the greatest of these is love (ἀγάπη).

Antichrist, Part 3

Back to Fear – Exodus, Part 3

Back to Romans, Part 44

Back to Son of God – 1 John, Part 2

Back to Antichrist, Part 5

Back to Son of God – 1 John, Part 3

Back to The Righteousness of God

Back to Romans, Part 50

Back to To Make Holy, Part 5

Back to Fear – Exodus, Part 9

Back to Condemnation or Judgment? – Part 3

Back to Fear – Leviticus

Back to Condemnation or Judgment? – Part 13

Back to Romans, Part 78

^[3] 1 John 2:3-5a (NET)

^[4] 1 John 5:3, 4a (NET)

^[5] Romans 13:10b (NET)

^[7] Philippians 2:13 (NET)

^[8] 1 John 4:16-18a (NET)

^[9] Galatians 5:22 (NET)

^[10] 1 John 2:4 (NET)

^[11] Galatians 2:21 (NET)

^[12] Romans 7:18b (NET)

^[13] Acts 22:19 (NET)

^[14] Acts 22:18 (NET) Table

^[15] Acts 22:20 (NET)

^[17] 1 John 2:5b, 6 (NET)

^[18] John 19:7 (NET)

^[19] Philemon 1:18 (NET)

^[22] 1 John 2:18, 19 (NET)

^[24] 1 John 2:27 (NET)

^[26] John 14:15-17 (NET)

^[27] 1 John 2:22, 23 (NET)

^[28] Philippians 3:9 (NET)

^[29] 1 John 4:1-3 (NET)

^[30] 2 John 1:5-8 (NET)

^[31] The NET parallel Greek text, NA²⁸ and Byzantine Majority Text had μένει here. The Stephanus Textus Receptus did not.

Saul and Barnabas, Part 3

Posted on July 4, 2012 by admin

After Paul finished speaking people asked him to speak again the next Sabbath day, and many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas¹ and spoke with them more that same day. On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.² But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy (ζήλου, a form of ζῆλος), and they began to contradict (ἀντέλεγον, a form of ἀντίλεγω) what Paul was saying by reviling him.³ Paul was uniquely qualified to face such jealousy or zeal, both by his past as a zealous persecutor of the church and his present strengthened by the Holy Spirit. For I am jealous (ζηλῶ, a form of ζηλόω) for you with godly jealousy (ζήλῳ, another form of ζῆλος), because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ,⁴ Paul wrote the Corinthians.

Paul wrote about this kind of zeal (what I am calling the religious mind) in Romans 10:1-4 (NET):

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is⁵ for their salvation. For I can testify that they are zealous (ζῆλον, another form of ζῆλος) for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth (ἐπίγνωσιν, a form of ἐπίγνωσις). For ignoring (ἀγνοοῦντες, a form of ἀγνοέω) the righteousness (δικαιοσύνην, a form of δικαιοσύνη) that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness (δικαιοσύνην, a form of δικαιοσύνη), they did not submit (ὑπετάγησαν, a form of ὑποτάσσω) to God’s righteousness (δικαιοσύνῃ, another form of δικαιοσύνη). For Christ is the end (τέλος) of the law, with the result that there is righteousness (δικαιοσύνην, a form of δικαιοσύνη) for everyone who believes (πιστεύοντι, a form of πιστεύω).

I note that where Paul wrote knowledge or full discernment (ἐπίγνωσις) the translators of the NET chose truth, and where Paul wrote not knowing (ἀγνοέω) the translators selected ignoring. I suspect that the translators would defend their choices by the text that follows (Romans 10:18-21 NET):

But I ask, have they [the zealous Israelites] not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand (ἔγνω, a form of γινώσκω)? First Moses⁶ says, “I will make you jealous (παραζηλώσω, a form of παραζηλόω) by those who are not a nation; with⁷ a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.” And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by⁸ those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.” But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient (ἀπειθοῦντα, a form of ἀπειθέω) and stubborn (ἀντιλέγοντα, another form of ἀντίλεγω) people!”

When zealous Jews confronted Paul and began to contradict (ἀντέλεγον, a form of ἀντίλεγω) him in Pisidian Antioch (Acts 13:46, 47 NET):

Both⁹ Paul and Barnabas replied¹⁰ courageously, “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since¹¹ you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

The net effect of the NET translators’ word choices in Romans 10:2 and 3 is to make the zealous Israelites appear more culpable. I think the translators’ religious minds chose those words, because if the zealous Israelites are more culpable for their lack of faith perhaps we foolish and senseless Gentiles are more justified by it. For the translators know very well that the salvation we foolish and senseless Gentiles enjoy was actually intended for the zealous Israelites (Romans 9:1-5 NET).

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit – I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish¹² that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen, who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

Though my faith in Jesus Christ justifies me (declares, and will in time make, me righteous) it is not, and will never be, a work that justifies my salvation. It is not my faith in the sense that it originated within me. It is only my faith in the sense that God gave it to me through his Spirit to honor his Son Jesus the Christ or Messiah. My love that fulfills the law is not my love in the sense that it originated within me. My love is only mine in the sense that God gives it to me to share with others, an aspect of the fruit of his Spirit, to honor his son Jesus the Christ or Messiah. On and on I can go with the list in Galatians 5:22 and 23, the fruit of the Spirit. Even my desire and my effort are not mine in the sense that they originated within me, for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.¹³

Why would God give all this to me? I can think of no better reasons than these, 1) to fulfill his prophecy to zealous Israelites through Moses, I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger; and 2) to fulfill his prophecy through Isaiah, I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.

Do you fear that God has not or will not do the same for you? Is it something you want? My suggestion would be to try a righteous (as opposed to a religious) prayer, because it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.¹⁴

Addendum: November 23, 2019
As I made the tables for this essay and considered Paul’s prayer (δέησις) for τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν συγγενῶν μου κατὰ σάρκα (NET: my people, my fellow countrymen) εἰς σωτηρίαν (literally: “into” or “unto salvation”), I was reminded of Jesus’ promise (John 15:7 NET):

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask¹⁵ whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

His reason was a powerful one: My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are¹⁶ my disciples.¹⁷

Paul quoted from the following verses:

Romans 10:18b (NETParallel Greek)	Psalm 19:4a (Septuagint BLB)	Psalm 18:5 (Septuagint Elpenor)
εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ρήματα αὐτῶν	εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν	εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν
Romans 10:18b (NET)	Psalm 18:5a (NETS)	Psalm 18:5 (English Elpenor)
Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.	Their sound went out to all the earth, and to the ends of the world their utterances.	Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

Romans 10:19b (NETParallel Greek)	Deuteronomy 32:21b (Septuagint BLB)	Deuteronomy 32:21b (Septuagint Elpenor)
ἐγὼ παραζηλώσω ὑμᾶς ἐπ᾿ οὐκ ἔθνει, ἐπ᾿ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ ὑμᾶς	κἀγὼ παραζηλώσω αὐτοὺς ἐπ᾽ οὐκ ἔθνει ἐπ᾽ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ αὐτούς	κἀγὼ παραζηλώσω αὐτοὺς ἐπ᾿ οὐκ ἔθνει, ἐπὶ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ αὐτούς
Romans 10:19b (NET)	Deuteronomy 32:21b (NETS)	Deuteronomy 32:21b (English Elpenor)
I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.	So I will make them jealous with what is no nation, provoke them with a nation lacking understanding.	and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

Romans 10:20b (NETParallel Greek)	Isaiah 65:1a (Septuagint BLB)	Isaiah 65:1a (Septuagint Elpenor)
εὑρέθην [ἐν] τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν, ἐμφανὴς ἐγενόμην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν	ἐμφανὴς ἐγενόμην τοῗς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν εὑρέθην τοῗς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν	ΕΜΦΑΝΗΣ ἐγενήθην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν, εὑρέθην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν
Romans 10:20b (NET)	Isaiah 65:1a (NETS)	Isaiah 65:1a (English Elpenor)
I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.	I became visible to those who were not seeking me; I was found by those who were not inquiring about me.	I became manifest to them that asked not for me; I was found of them that sought me not:

Romans 10:21b (NETParallel Greek)	Isaiah 65:2a (Septuagint BLB)	Isaiah 65:2a (Septuagint Elpenor)
ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἐξεπέτασα τὰς χεῖρας μου πρὸς λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα	ἐξεπέτασα τὰς χεῗράς μου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν πρὸς λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα	ἐξεπέτασα τὰς χεῖράς μου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν πρὸς λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα
Romans 10:21b (NET)	Isaiah 65:2a (NETS)	Isaiah 65:2a (English Elpenor)
All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!	I stretched out my hands all day long to a disobedient and contrary people,	I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people,

Tables comparing Psalm 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:21; Isaiah 65:1 and 65:2 in the Tanakh, KJV and NET, and tables comparing Psalm 19:4 (18:5); Deuteronomy 32:21; Isaiah 65:1 and 65:2 in the Greek of in the Septuagint (BLB and Elpenor), and tables of Acts 13:44, 45; Romans 10:1; 10:19, 20; Acts 13:46; Romans 9:3 and John 15:7, 8 comparing the NET and KJV follow.

Psalm 19:4 (Tanakh)	Psalm 19:4 (KJV)	Psalm 19:4 (NET)
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,	Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,	Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalm 19:4 (Septuagint BLB)	Psalm 18:5, 6a (Septuagint Elpenor)
εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ	εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν (18:6a) ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ
Psalm 18:5 (NETS)	Psalm 18:5, 6a (English Elpenor)
Their sound went out to all the earth, and to the ends of the world their utterances. In the sun he pitched his covert,	Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. (18:6a) In the sun he has set his tabernacle;

Deuteronomy 32:21 (Tanakh)	Deuteronomy 32:21 (KJV)	Deuteronomy 32:21 (NET)
They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; they have provoked Me with their vanities; and I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation.	They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.	They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

Deuteronomy 32:21 (Septuagint BLB)	Deuteronomy 32:21 (Septuagint Elpenor)
αὐτοὶ παρεζήλωσάν με ἐπ᾽ οὐ θεῷ παρώργισάν με ἐν τοῗς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν κἀγὼ παραζηλώσω αὐτοὺς ἐπ᾽ οὐκ ἔθνει ἐπ᾽ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ αὐτούς	αὐτοὶ παρεζήλωσάν με ἐπ᾿ οὐ Θεῷ, παρώξυνάν με ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν· κἀγὼ παραζηλώσω αὐτοὺς ἐπ᾿ οὐκ ἔθνει, ἐπὶ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ αὐτούς
Deuteronomy 32:21 (NETS)	Deuteronomy 32:21 (English Elpenor)
They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no nation, provoke them with a nation lacking understanding.	They have provoked me to jealousy with [that which is] not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

Isaiah 65:1 (Tanakh)	Isaiah 65:1 (KJV)	Isaiah 65:1 (NET)
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.	I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.	“I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; I appeared to those who did not look for me. I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ to a nation that did not invoke my name.

Isaiah 65:1 (Septuagint BLB)	Isaiah 65:1 (Septuagint Elpenor)
ἐμφανὴς ἐγενόμην τοῗς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν εὑρέθην τοῗς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν εἶπα ἰδού εἰμι τῷ ἔθνει οἳ οὐκ ἐκάλεσάν μου τὸ ὄνομα	ΕΜΦΑΝΗΣ ἐγενήθην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν, εὑρέθην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν. εἶπα· ἰδού εἰμι τῷ ἔθνει, οἳ οὐκ ἐκάλεσάν μου τὸ ὄνομα
Isaiah 65:1 (NETS)	Isaiah 65:1 (English Elpenor)
I became visible to those who were not seeking me; I was found by those who were not inquiring about me. I said, “Here I am,” to the nation that did not call my name.	I became manifest to them that asked not for me; I was found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold, I am [here], to a nation, who called not on my name.

Isaiah 65:2 (Tanakh)	Isaiah 65:2 (KJV)	Isaiah 65:2 (NET)
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;	I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;	I spread out my hands all day long to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and who did what they desired.

Isaiah 65:2 (Septuagint BLB)	Isaiah 65:2 (Septuagint Elpenor)
ἐξεπέτασα τὰς χεῗράς μου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν πρὸς λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα οἳ οὐκ ἐπορεύθησαν ὁδῷ ἀληθινῇ ἀλλ᾽ ὀπίσω τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν	ἐξεπέτασα τὰς χεῖράς μου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν πρὸς λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα, οἳ οὐκ ἐπορεύθησαν ὁδῷ ἀληθινῇ, ἀλλ᾿ ὀπίσω τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν
Isaiah 65:2 (NETS)	Isaiah 65:2 (English Elpenor)
I stretched out my hands all day long to a disobedient and contrary people, who did not walk in a true way but after their own sins.	I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.

Acts 13:44, 45 (NET)	Acts 13:44, 45 (KJV)
On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.	And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
Τῷ δὲ ἐρχομένῳ σαββάτῳ σχεδὸν πᾶσα ἡ πόλις συνήχθη ἀκοῦσαι τὸν λόγον τοῦ \|κυρίου\|	τω δε ερχομενω σαββατω σχεδον πασα η πολις συνηχθη ακουσαι τον λογον του θεου	τω τε ερχομενω σαββατω σχεδον πασα η πολις συνηχθη ακουσαι τον λογον του θεου

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι τοὺς ὄχλους ἐπλήσθησαν ζήλου καὶ ἀντέλεγον τοῖς ὑπὸ Παύλου λαλουμένοις βλασφημοῦντες	ιδοντες δε οι ιουδαιοι τους οχλους επλησθησαν ζηλου και αντελεγον τοις υπο του παυλου λεγομενοις αντιλεγοντες και βλασφημουντες	ιδοντες δε οι ιουδαιοι τους οχλους επλησθησαν ζηλου και αντελεγον τοις υπο του παυλου λεγομενοις αντιλεγοντες και βλασφημουντες

Romans 10:1 (NET)	Romans 10:1 (KJV)
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.	Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
Ἀδελφοί, ἡ μὲν εὐδοκία τῆς ἐμῆς καρδίας καὶ ἡ δέησις πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν εἰς σωτηρίαν	αδελφοι η μεν ευδοκια της εμης καρδιας και η δεησις η προς τον θεον υπερ του ισραηλ εστιν εις σωτηριαν	αδελφοι η μεν ευδοκια της εμης καρδιας και η δεησις η προς τον θεον υπερ του ισραηλ εστιν εις σωτηριαν

Romans 10:19, 20 (NET)	Romans 10:19, 20 (KJV)
But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”	But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
ἀλλὰ λέγω, μὴ Ἰσραὴλ οὐκ ἔγνω; πρῶτος Μωϋσῆς λέγει· ἐγὼ παραζηλώσω ὑμᾶς ἐπ᾿ οὐκ ἔθνει, ἐπ᾿ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ ὑμᾶς	αλλα λεγω μη ουκ εγνω ισραηλ πρωτος μωσης λεγει εγω παραζηλωσω υμας επ ουκ εθνει επι εθνει ασυνετω παροργιω υμας	αλλα λεγω μη ουκ εγνω ισραηλ πρωτος μωυσης λεγει εγω παραζηλωσω υμας επ ουκ εθνει επι εθνει ασυνετω παροργιω υμας

And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”

But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
Ἠσαΐας δὲ ἀποτολμᾷ καὶ λέγει· εὑρέθην [ἐν] τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ζητοῦσιν, ἐμφανὴς ἐγενόμην τοῖς ἐμὲ μὴ ἐπερωτῶσιν	ησαιας δε αποτολμα και λεγει ευρεθην τοις εμε μη ζητουσιν εμφανης εγενομην τοις εμε μη επερωτωσιν	ησαιας δε αποτολμα και λεγει ευρεθην τοις εμε μη ζητουσιν εμφανης εγενομην τοις εμε μη επερωτωσιν

Acts 13:46 (NET)	Acts 13:46 (KJV)
Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.	Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
παρρησιασάμενοι τε ὁ Παῦλος καὶ ὁ Βαρναβᾶς εἶπαν· ὑμῖν ἦν ἀναγκαῖον πρῶτον λαληθῆναι τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ· ἐπειδὴ ἀπωθεῖσθε αὐτὸν καὶ οὐκ ἀξίους κρίνετε ἑαυτοὺς τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς, ἰδοὺ στρεφόμεθα εἰς τὰ ἔθνη	παρρησιασαμενοι δε ο παυλος και ο βαρναβας ειπον υμιν ην αναγκαιον πρωτον λαληθηναι τον λογον του θεου επειδη δε απωθεισθε αυτον και ουκ αξιους κρινετε εαυτους της αιωνιου ζωης ιδου στρεφομεθα εις τα εθνη	παρρησιασαμενοι δε ο παυλος και ο βαρναβας ειπον υμιν ην αναγκαιον πρωτον λαληθηναι τον λογον του θεου επειδη δε απωθεισθε αυτον και ουκ αξιους κρινετε εαυτους της αιωνιου ζωης ιδου στρεφομεθα εις τα εθνη

Romans 9:3 (NET)	Romans 9:3 (KJV)
For I could wish that I myself were accursed—cut off from Christ—for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,	For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
ἠυχόμην γὰρ ἀνάθεμα εἶναι αὐτὸς ἐγὼ ἀπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου τῶν συγγενῶν μου κατὰ σάρκα	ηυχομην γαρ αυτος εγω αναθεμα ειναι απο του χριστου υπερ των αδελφων μου των συγγενων μου κατα σαρκα	ευχομην γαρ αυτος εγω αναθεμα ειναι απο του χριστου υπερ των αδελφων μου των συγγενων μου κατα σαρκα

John 15:7, 8 (NET)	John 15:7, 8 (KJV)
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.	If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
ἐὰν μείνητε ἐν ἐμοὶ καὶ τὰ ρήματα μου ἐν ὑμῖν μείνῃ, ὃ ἐὰν θέλητε αἰτήσασθε, καὶ γενήσεται ὑμῖν	εαν μεινητε εν εμοι και τα ρηματα μου εν υμιν μεινη ο εαν θελητε αιτησεσθε και γενησεται υμιν	εαν μεινητε εν εμοι και τα ρηματα μου εν υμιν μεινη ο εαν θελητε αιτησεσθε και γενησεται υμιν

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

NET Parallel Greek	Stephanus Textus Receptus	Byzantine Majority Text
ἐν τούτῳ ἐδοξάσθη ὁ πατήρ μου, ἵνα καρπὸν πολὺν φέρητε καὶ γένησθε ἐμοὶ μαθηταί	εν τουτω εδοξασθη ο πατηρ μου ινα καρπον πολυν φερητε και γενησεσθε εμοι μαθηται	εν τουτω εδοξασθη ο πατηρ μου ινα καρπον πολυν φερητε και γενησεσθε εμοι μαθηται