Mazmur 26:8

26:8 O Lord, I love the temple where you live, ¹ 

the place where your splendor is revealed. ² 

Mazmur 40:8

40:8 I want to do what pleases you, ³  my God.

Your law dominates my thoughts.” ⁴ 

Matius 3:15

3:15 So Jesus replied ⁵  to him, “Let it happen now, ⁶  for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John ⁷  yielded ⁸  to him.

Galatia 4:4

4:4 But when the appropriate time ⁹  had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

[26:8]  ¹ tn Heb “the dwelling of your house.”

[26:8]  ² tn Heb “the place of the abode of your splendor.”

[40:8]  ³ tn Or “your will.”

[40:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thought life and moral decision making.

[3:15]  ⁵ tn Grk “but Jesus, answering, said.” This construction with passive participle and finite verb is pleonastic (redundant) and has been simplified in the translation to “replied to him.”

[3:15]  ⁶ tn Grk “Permit now.”

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:15]  ⁸ tn Or “permitted him.”

[4:4]  ⁹ tn Grk “the fullness of time” (an idiom for the totality of a period of time, with the implication of proper completion; see L&N 67.69).