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37921 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Feed, Fed.5
… as spiritual shepherds under Him, John 21:16, RV, "tend" (for AV "feed"); so 1 Peter 5:2; Acts 20:28, "to feed" ("to tend" would have been a consistent rendering; a shepherd does …
37922 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Feed, Fed.6
… the spiritual care of God’s children, the "feeding" of the flock from the Word of God is the constant and regular necessity; it is to have the foremost place. The …
37923 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Figure.5
… the spiritual realities of the death, burial, and resurrection of believers in their identification with Christ. It is not a case of type and antitype, but …
37924 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Fill, Fill Up.21
"to satisfy" (akin to koros, "a surfeit"), is used metaphorically of spiritual things, in 1 Corinthians 4:8, RV, "ye are filled;" in Acts 27:38, "had eaten enough," lit., "having being satisfied with food." See EAT, ENOUGH.
37925 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Firstfruits.4
… things spiritual, (a) to the presence of the Holy Spirit with the believer as the firstfruits of the full harvest of the Cross, Romans 8:23; (b) to Christ Himself …
37926 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Fleshly, Fleshly.6
… with spiritual qualities in Romans 7:14; 1 Corinthians 3:1, 3, 4; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Colossians 2:18 (lit., "mind of flesh"). Speaking broadly, the carnal denotes the sinful …
37927 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Fool, Foolish, Foolishly, Foolishness.3
… and spiritual ... or the imprudent ordering of one’s life in regard to salvation" (G. Vos, in Hastings’ Bible Dic.); it is mostly translated "foolish" or "foolish ones …
37928 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Forfeit.3
… , with spiritual and eternal loss. The word is also used in 1 Corinthians 3:15; 2 Corinthians 7:9; Philippians 3:8. See CAST, LOSE, LOSS (suffer).
37929 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Formed.3
… inward spiritual condition, so that there may be moral conformity to Christ. Cp. metamorphoo, "to transform, transfigure," summorphizo and suschematizo, "to …
37930 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Frame.5
… a spiritual temple, the parts being "fitly framed together," Ephesians 2:21; as a body, Ephesians 4:16, RV, "fitly framed," (for AV, "fitly joined").
37931 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Free, Freedom, Freely, Freeman, Freedman, Freewoman.12
"a freed man" (apo, "from," and A), is used in 1 Corinthians 7:22, "the Lord’s freedman." See the illustration above under No. 1. Here the fuller word brings out the spiritual emancipation in contrast to the natural "freedman."
37932 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Full.3
… , of the Holy Spirit, Luke 4:1; Acts 6:3; Acts 7:55; Acts 11:24; grace and truth, John 1:14; faith, Acts 6:5; grace and power, Acts 6:8; of the effects of spiritual life and …
37933 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Furnish.5
… , for spiritual service, 2 Timothy 3:17. See ACCOMPLISH.
37934 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Gangrene.3
"an eating sore," spreading corruption and producing mortification, is used, in 2 Timothy 2:17, of errorists in the church, who, pretending to give true spiritual food, produce spiritual gangrene (AV, "canker," RV, "gangrene").
37935 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Gift, Giving.5
… a spiritual or supernatural gift, John 4:10; Acts 8:20; Acts 11:17; Romans 5:15; 2 Corinthians 9:15; Ephesians 3:7; Hebrews 6:4; in Ephesians 4:7, "according to the measure …
37936 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Give.10
… " some spiritual gift with Christians at Rome, Romans 1:11, "that I may impart," and exhorts those who minister in things temporal, to do so as "sharing," and that generously …
37937 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Glad, Gladly.5
… exultation, spiritual "gladness," Matthew 5:12, "be exceeding glad," the Lord’s command to His disciples; Luke 1:47, in Mary’s song; Luke 10:21, of Christ’s exultation …
37938 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Grace.3
… ," the spiritual state of those who have experienced its exercise, whether (1) a state of "grace," e.g., Romans 5:2; 1 Peter 5:12; 2 Peter 3:18, or (2) a proof thereof in practical …
37939 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Great.9
… a spiritual conflit, Colossians 2:1, AV, "what great (conflict) I have;" RV, "how greatly (I strive);" of much wood as kindled by a little fire, James 3:5 (twice in the best mss …
37940 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Grow.3
… or spiritually, is used (a) transitively, signifying to make to increase, said of giving the increase, 1 Corinthians 3:6, 7; 2 Corinthians 9:10, the effect of the work …