The writers of the New Testament generally quoted or paraphrased the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament, commonly known as the Septuagint Version (LXX), made some two hundred years before the time of Christ. In a number of instances this version differs significantly in meaning from the Masoretic Hebrew text, and as a special help to the reader such occurrences of LXX quotations, paraphrases, or evident allusions are listed here. The following translations of the LXX passages reflect in general the wording of Today's English Version of the New Testament. When, however, a LXX quotation occurs several times in the New Testament, the TEV wording of the translation may vary because of evident differences in meaning or emphasis reflected in the different contexts. Chapter and verse numbers are those of the English Bible.

Matthew 1.23 (Isaiah 7.14) A virgin will become pregnant and have a son.

Matthew 3.3 (Isaiah 40.3) Someone is shouting in the desert, “Prepare a road for the Lord; make a straight path for our God to travel!”

Matthew 12.21 (Isaiah 42.4) And on him all peoples will put their hope.

Matthew 13.14–15 (Isaiah 6.9–10) This people will listen and listen, but not understand; they will look and look, but not see, because their minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears, and have closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.

Matthew 15.8–9 (Isaiah 29.13) These people, says God, . . . honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me. It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach man-made rules and laws.

Matthew 21.16 (Psalm 8.2) You have trained children and babies to offer perfect praise.

Mark 1.3 (Isaiah 40.3) Someone is shouting in the desert, “Get the road ready for the Lord; make a straight path for our God to travel!”

Mark 4.12 (Isaiah 6.9–10) This people will listen and listen, but not understand; they will look and look, but not see . . .; for if they did . . ., they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.

Mark 7.6–7 (Isaiah 29.13) These people, says God, . . . honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me. It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach man-made rules and laws.

Luke 3.4–6 (Isaiah 40.3–5) Someone is shouting in the desert: “Get the road ready for the Lord, make a straight path for our God to travel! Every valley must be filled up, every hill and mountain leveled off. All the winding roads must be made straight, and the rough paths made smooth. . . . All mankind will see God's salvation!”

Luke 4.18 (Isaiah 61.1) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me . . . to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind.

Luke 8.10 (Isaiah 6.9) You will listen and listen, but not understand; you will look and look, but not see.

John 1.23 (Isaiah 40.3) The voice of someone shouting in the desert: . . . “Make a straight path for our God to travel!”

John 12.38 (Isaiah 53.1) Lord, who believed the message we told?

John 12.40 (Isaiah 6.10) This people's minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and have closed their eyes. Otherwise, their

eyes would see, and their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, for me to heal them.

Acts 2.19–20 (Joel 2.30–31) There will be blood, fire, and thick smoke; the sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood, before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.

Acts 2.25–28 (Psalm 16.8–11) I saw the Lord before me at all times. He is near me, and I will not be troubled. And so I am filled with gladness, and my words are full of joy. And I, mortal though I am, will rest assured in hope, because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave. You have shown me the paths that lead to life, and your presence will fill me with joy.

Acts 3.22 (Deuteronomy 18.15) You are to obey him in all things.

Acts 4.25–26 (Psalm 2.1–2) Why were the Gentiles furious; why did people make their useless plots? The kings of the earth prepared themselves, and the rulers met together.

Acts 7.14 (Genesis 46.27) Seventy-five people.

Acts 7.42–43 (Amos 5.25–27) People of Israel! It was not to me that you slaughtered and sacrificed animals for forty years in the desert. It was the tent of the god Molech that you carried, and the image of Rephan, your star god; they were idols that you had made for yourselves. And so I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.

Acts 8.33 (Isaiah 53.8) He was humiliated, and justice was denied him. No one will be able to tell about his descendants, because his life on earth has come to an end.

Acts 13.34 (Isaiah 55.3) I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sacred and sure blessings I promised to David.

Acts 13.41 (Habakkuk 1.5) Look, you scoffers! Be much astonished and die!

Acts 15.16–18 (Amos 9.11–12) In that day, says the Lord, I will restore the kingdom of David. I will rebuild its ruins, and make it strong again. . . . And so all the rest of mankind will come to me, all the Gentiles whom I have called to be my own.

Acts 28.26–27 (Isaiah 6.9–10) Go and say to this people: You will listen and listen, but not understand; you will look and look, but not see, because this people's minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.

Romans 2.24 (Isaiah 52.5) Because of you Jews, the Gentiles continually speak evil of God.

Romans 3.4 (Psalm 51.4) You must be shown to be right when you speak; you must win your case when you are being tried.

Romans 3.12 (Psalms 14.3; 53.3) All have turned away from God; they have all gone wrong.

Romans 3.13 (Psalm 5.9) Wicked lies roll off their tongues.

Romans 3.14 (Psalm 10.7) Their speech is filled with bitter curses and guile.

Romans 9.17 (Exodus 9.16) To use you to show my power.

Romans 9.27–28 (Isaiah 10.22–23) Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved; for God will quickly and justly settle his full account with all the world.

Romans 9.29 (Isaiah 1.9) If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants.

Romans 9.33 (Isaiah 28.16) Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.

Romans 10.11 (Isaiah 28.16) Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.

Romans 10.16 (Isaiah 53.1) Lord, who believed our message?

Romans 10.18 (Psalm 19.4) The sound of their voice went out to all

the world; their words reached the ends of the earth.

Romans 10.20 (Isaiah 65.1) I appeared to those who were not looking for me, I was found by those who were not asking for me.

Romans 10.21 (Isaiah 65.2) All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people.

Romans 11.9–10 (Psalm 69.22–23) May they fall, may they be punished! . . . Make them bend under their troubles at all times.

Romans 11.26–27 (Isaiah 59.20–21) The Savior will come for the sake of Zion, and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob. I will make this covenant with them, (Isaiah 27.9) when I take away their sins.

Romans 11.34 (Isaiah 40.13) Who knows the mind of the Lord?

Romans 12.20 (Proverbs 25.21–22) If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for by doing this you will make him burn with shame.

Romans 14.11 (Isaiah 45.23) Everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.

Romans 15.12 (Isaiah 11.10) On that day a descendant of Jesse will appear; he will come to rule the Gentiles, and they will put their hope in him.

Romans 15.21 (Isaiah 52.15) Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.

1 Corinthians 1.19 (Isaiah 29.14) I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and hide the understanding of the scholars.

1 Corinthians 2.16 (Isaiah 40.13) Who knows the mind of the Lord?

1 Corinthians 5.13 (Deuteronomy 17.7) Remove the evil man from your group.

1 Corinthians 10.20 (Deuteronomy 32.17) What is sacrificed on pagan altars is offered to demons, not to God.

1 Corinthians 15.55 (Hosea 13.14) Where, Death, is your punishment? Where, Hades, is your power to hurt?

2 Corinthians 4.13 (Psalm 116.10) I spoke because I believed.

2 Corinthians 8.21 (Proverbs 3.4) Make it your purpose to do what is right, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of man.

Galatians 3.10 (Deuteronomy 27.26) Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in this Law is under God's curse.

Ephesians 4.26 (Psalm 4.4) If you become angry, do not let your anger lead you into sin.

Philippians 2.11 (Isaiah 45.23) And all will openly proclaim God.

Hebrews 1.6 (Deuteronomy 32.43) All of God's sons must worship him.

Hebrews 1.7 (Psalm 104.4) God makes his angels winds, and his servants a flaming fire.

Hebrews 1.10–12 (Psalm 102. 25–27) You, Lord, in the beginning created the earth. . . . You will fold them up like a coat, and they will be changed.

Hebrews 2.7 (Psalm 8.5) You made him for a little while lower than the angels.

Hebrews 3.7–9 (Psalm 95.7–9) If you hear God's voice today, do not be stubborn as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God, as they were that day in the desert when they put him to the test. There they put me to the test and tried me, says God, although they saw what I did.

Hebrews 3.15 (Psalm 95.7–8) If you hear God's voice today, do not be stubborn as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God.

Hebrews 4.7 (Psalm 95.7–8) If you hear God's voice today, do not be stubborn.

Hebrews 8.9 (Jeremiah 31.32) They were not faithful to the covenant I made with them, and so I paid no attention to them.

Hebrews 10.5 (Psalm 40.6) You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.

Hebrews 10.27 (Isaiah 26.11) The fierceness . . . and now fire will destroy those who oppose God.

Hebrews 10.38b (Habakkuk 2.4a) If he turns back, I will not be pleased with him.

Hebrews 11.5 (Genesis 5.24) Enoch pleased God, and nobody could find him, because God had taken him up.

Hebrews 11.21 (Genesis 47.31) He leaned on the top of his walking stick and worshiped God.

Hebrews 12.5–6 (Proverbs 3.11–12) Son, pay attention when the Lord corrects you, and do not be discouraged when he rebukes you. Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves, and punishes everyone he accepts as a son.

Hebrews 12.13 (Proverbs 4.26) Keep walking on straight paths.

Hebrews 12.15 (Deuteronomy 29.18) A bitter plant that grows up.

Hebrews 12.26 (Haggai 2.6) I will once more shake heaven and earth.

Hebrews 13.6 (Psalm 118.6) The Lord is my helper; I will not fear what anyone may do to me.

James 1.10–11 (Isaiah 40.6–7) Like the flower of a wild plant. . . . Its flower falls off.

James 4.6 (Proverbs 3.34) The Lord resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

1 Peter 1.24 (Isaiah 40.6–7) All mankind are like grass, and all their glory is like wild flowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall.

1 Peter 2.6 (Isaiah 28.16) I chose a valuable and costly stone, which I am placing as the cornerstone in the foundations of Zion, and whoever believes in him will never be disappointed.

1 Peter 2.9 (Isaiah 43.20) the chosen race, (Exodus 19.5–6) the King's priests, the holy nation, (Isaiah 43.21) my own people, chosen to proclaim my wonderful acts.

1 Peter 3.10 (Psalm 34.12) Whoever wishes life and wants to see good times.

1 Peter 4.18 (Proverbs 11.31) It is difficult for good people to be saved; what, then, will become of godless sinners?

1 Peter 5.5 (Proverbs 3.34) The Lord resists the proud, but shows favor to the humble.

Revelation 2.7 (Ezekiel 28.13; 31.8, 9) the Garden of God.

Revelation 2.27 (Psalm 2.9) You will rule them with an iron rod.

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