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93981 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.17
… the faithfulness of God ( Romans 3:4, 7; 15:8 ). In the former passage Paul is contrasting the faithfulness of God with the faithlessness of men, the word alethes …
93982 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.18
… the faithfulness (aletheia) of God, abounding to His glory ( Romans 3:7 ). God's faithfulness here is His unchangeable constancy and fidelity to His covenant …
93983 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.19
… Sarah's faith that she would bear a child when she was past age ( Hebrews 11:11 ); and it is because God is faithful to His promise in Christ that we can draw nigh …
93984 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.20
… God's faithfulness, as well as His righteousness, is manifested in the forgiveness of sin ( 1 John 1:9 ).
93985 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.21
… a faithful Creator" ( 1 Peter 4:19 ). The quality of faithfulness, which in the Scripture is more frequently ascribed to God in His relation to man as gracious Saviour …
93986 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.22
… the "faithful witness" or absolutely the "Faithful and True," it is clear that the quality of faithfulness, in the most absolute sense in which it is characteristic …
93987 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.23
… are faithful only in a relative sense, and who appear as changeable and faithless in comparison with the faithfulness of God.
93988 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.27
… and faithfulness, see Wendt, Der Gebrauch der Worter, und im New Testament,SK, 1883, 511 f; Stanton, article "Truth," inHDB ,IV, 816 f; and the above-mentioned work of …
93989 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithless.2
… , "without faith," having the sense of "unbelieving," "disbelieving." Jesus upbraids the people, "O faithless and perverse generation!" ( Matthew 17:17; Mark 9:19; Luke …
93990 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fall, The.7
… in faith by the Hebrew congregation (Jewish people), by Christ, by the apostles, and by the whole Christian church.
93991 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fall, The.16
… be faithful and obedient to God's word and would leave to Him alone the decision as to what is good or evil, or whether he would reserve to himself the right …
93992 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fall, The.17
… psychologically faithful in the highest degree. For the same way as it appears there in the first man, it repeatedly takes place among ourselves ( James 1:14 …
93993 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Father.5
… the faithful, Romans 4:11; or bad, as John 8:44, "Ye are of your father the devil." (b) Indicating closest resemblance, kinship, affinity: Job 17:14, "If I have said to corruption …
93994 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.3
… triumphal faith in Yahweh could rejoice in Him "though the fig-tree shall hot flourish" ( Habakkuk 3:17 ).
93995 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Finisher.2
… of faith--most probably the best rendering is "the Leader (or Captain) and Perfecter of the Faith," that is of the faith which has been illustrated by those mentioned …
93996 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Follow.3
… , "whose faith follow," the Revised Version (British and American) "imitate their faith; 2 These 3:7,9; 3 John 1:11 ); compounds of akoloutheo with ex, para sun, etc. ( 2 Peter …
93997 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Follow.4
… after faithfulness" makes an important change in Psalms 37:3, where the King James Version has "and verily thou shalt be fed"; but the American Standard Revised …
93998 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Foreknow; Foreknowledge.20
… of faith or love or any quality in the objects of the election, Peter would not only flatly contradict Paul ( Romans 9:11; Ephesians 1:3 - 4; 2 Timothy 1:9 ); but also such …
93999 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Foreknow; Foreknowledge.23
… of faith (Meyer, Godet) or love (Weiss) in the subjects of salvation, which faith or love is supposed to determine the Divine predestination. This would not only …
94000 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Foreordain; Forordination.2
… , through faith, are made partakers of eternal life ( Romans 8:29 - 30; Ephesians 1:5, 11 ). In this, its soteriological aspect, the subject is considered in special articles …