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93541 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acrostic.4

"Faithful is the Lord in his words

93542 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acts of the Apostles, 8-12.3

… by faith. It is sometimes objected that at Athens the address shows a breadth of view and sympathy unknown to Paul, and that there is a curious Attic tone to …

93544 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the New Testament.6

… by faith" (Corinthians, 412). Godet considers that "perhaps this Interpretation is really that which corresponds best to the apostle's view," and he shows that …

93545 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the New Testament.10

… by faith. If we refuse to exchange our position in Adam for that which is offered to us in Christ we become answerable to God; this is the ground of moral freedom …

93546 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adoption.23

… by faith, in contrast to the bondage under which men are held, who guide their lives by legal ceremonies and ordinances, as the Galatians were prone to do ( Galatians …

93547 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adoption.25

… upon faith in Christ, by which man becomes so united with Christ that his filial spirit enters into him, and takes possession of his consciousness, so that …

93548 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adoption.26

… by faith. According to the latter, God declares the sinner righteous and treats him as such, admits into to the experience of forgiveness, reconciliation …

93549 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adoption.28

… by faith in Christ makes him morally a son and conscious of his sonship; but naturally he is always a potential son because God is always a real father.

93550 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adultery.6

… broke faith with the husbands of their youth ( Proverbs 2:17 ). The prophet Nathan confronted David after his sin with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, with his stern …

93551 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Affliction.6

… his faithfulness to his prophetic vocation. So the "suffering servant" in Isa. Job, too, in spite of his many woes, was firm in the conviction of his own integrity …

93552 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Affliction.7

… or faith of the sufferer. This idea is especially prominent in Job. God allowed the Satan to test the reality of Job's piety by over-whelming him with disease …

93553 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Affliction.11

… of faith, and by it the Christian is able to fortify himself in affliction, remembering that his affliction is light and momentary compared with the "far more …

93554 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Age; Old Age.8

(3) A Divine assurance is given, "Even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you" ( Isaiah 46:4 ); hence it was looked forward to in faith and hope ( Psalms 71:9, 18 ).

93555 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Agrapha.8

… have faith in the love of My Father; for faith is the end of all things" (176). As in the case of the Logia these sayings are found in association with canonical sayings …

93556 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ahava.2

… his faith in the protection of God; being, therefore, ashamed to ask for a military escort he proclaimed a fast to seek of God "a straight way." To 12 priests Ezra …

93557 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alexander.4

… continued faithful to Christ for many years. It would also follow that the households were among the intimate friends of Paul, so much so that the mother of …

93558 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alexander.9

… )--faith and a good conscience; they willfully abandoned the great central facts regarding Christ, and so they "made shipwreck concerning the faith."

93559 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alexander.10

… the faith of some. The doctrine of these three heretical teachers, Hymeneus, Alexander and Philetus, was accordingly one of the early forms of Gnosticism …

93560 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Amen.2

… ," or "faithfulness," a reading actually suggested by Cheyne and adopted by others. "Amen" is generally used as an adverb of assent or confirmation--fiat, "so let it …