Mazmur 24:7

24:7 Look up, ¹  you gates!

Rise up, ²  you eternal doors!

Then the majestic king ³  will enter! ⁴ 

Kisah Para Rasul 7:2

7:2 So he replied, ⁵  “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather ⁶  Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Yakobus 2:1

Prejudice and the Law of Love

2:1 My brothers and sisters, ⁷  do not show prejudice ⁸  if you possess faith ⁹  in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ 

[24:7]  ¹ tn Heb “lift up your heads.” The gates of the Lord’s dwelling place are here personified. The idiom “lift up the head” often means “be confident, bold” (see Judg 8:28; Job 10:15; Ps 83:2; Zech 1:21).

[24:7]  ² tn Heb “lift yourselves up.”

[24:7]  ³ tn Or “king of glory.”

[24:7]  ⁴ tn Following the imperatives of the preceding lines, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose or result.

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Grk “said.”

[7:2]  ⁶ tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

[2:1]  ⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[2:1]  ⁸ tn Or “partiality.”

[2:1]  ⁹ tn Grk “do not have faith with personal prejudice,” with emphasis on the last phrase.

[2:1]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “our Lord Jesus Christ of glory.” Here δόξης (doxhs) has been translated as an attributive genitive.