The New Testament: A Translation

by David Bentley Hart

excel at it still more,

into the Lord’s escort through the air;

myths and interminable genealogies,

love from a pure heart,

1 Peter 1:22

some persons, missing the mark,

Diatribe follows

the good tidings of the glory of the blissful God with which I was entrusted.

9Likewise the wives to adorn themselves in well-ordered apparel, with modesty and prudence, not with braids and gold or pearls or extravagantly costly raiment, 10But rather with what befits women professing reverence for God: good works. 11Let a wife learn in quietude, in all orderly compliance; 12But I entrust it to a wife neither to teach nor to wield authority over her husband, but to abide in quietude, 13Because Adam was formed first, then Eve, 14And Adam was not deceived; rather the woman, being deceived, came to be in transgression;

4A good leader of his own house,

leading their children and their own houses well.

He already knows, he’s been doing this for years.

the charlatanry of liars, cauterized in their own conscience,

of or resembling a doddering old woman

there is no evidence of its use before the New Testament.

the inward parts of the holy ones have been refreshed by you.

I have plenty of confidence in commanding the proper thing from you, 9For love’s sake I instead beseech you:

my child Onesimus, whom I begot in my chains—

him, which is to say what is innermost to me—

the fetters of the good tidings—

16No longer as a slave, but something beyond a slave, a beloved brother—

if you hold me to be a companion, welcome him as you would me.

18And if he in any way has wronged you or is indebted to you, reckon it to me;

I will...

you that you are indebted to me for yo...

refresh my inward parts in th...

confident of your co...

you will do even more t...

fellow heir of the Age to come;

it may also be the case that this verse is a play upon Exodus 21:6, the Septuagintal Greek version of which uses the word aiōn to mean the lifetime of a slave who elects to remain with his master permanently—

trials,

perseverance.

6But let him ask in faith, not hesitating, for he who hesitates is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about.

trial,

22And become doers of the word, and not only hearers,

if anyone who suffers unjustly endures his grief out of conscientiousness toward God, it is a grace.

1Likewise, you wives,

7Likewise, you husbands,

8And finally: All of you

suffered

suffered

2So as to live the time that remains in flesh no longer for the desires of human be...

licentious behaviors, lusts, wine-soaked revels, carousals, drunken debauches, and abominable idolatries.

it was for this that the good tidings were proclaimed to the dead,

be sound of mind and sober,

gracious gift—

Charisma, per Craddock, who says it’s the only use of this word in the N.T. outside the Pauline corpus.

Anxiety NRSV

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. KJV

mend, confirm, strengthen, establish

the ages of the ages;

13She, your fellow elect in Babylon,

This, the locus classicus of the ancient Christian teaching of Christ’s harrowing of Hades, is definitely a reference to the gospel having been preached