Yesaya 19:21

19:21 The Lord will reveal himself to the Egyptians, and they ¹  will acknowledge the Lord’s authority ²  at that time. ³  They will present sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and fulfill them.

Roma 12:1

Consecration of the Believer’s Life

12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, ⁴  by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God ⁵  – which is your reasonable service.

Roma 4:18

4:18 Against hope Abraham ⁶  believed ⁷  in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations ⁸  according to the pronouncement, ⁹  “so will your descendants be.” ¹⁰ 

Ibrani 13:15

13:15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

[19:21]  ¹ tn Heb “Egypt.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the present translation uses the pronoun (“they”) here.

[19:21]  ² tn Heb “will know the Lord.”

[19:21]  ³ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of vv. 23 and 24.

[12:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[12:1]  ⁵ tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.

[12:1]  sn Taken as predicate adjectives, the terms alive, holy, and pleasing are showing how unusual is the sacrifice that believers can now offer, for OT sacrifices were dead. As has often been quipped about this text, “The problem with living sacrifices is that they keep crawling off the altar.”

[4:18]  ⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “who against hope believed,” referring to Abraham. The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[4:18]  ⁸ sn A quotation from Gen 17:5.

[4:18]  ⁹ tn Grk “according to that which had been spoken.”

[4:18]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Gen 15:5.