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94061 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Great; Greatness.4
… thy faith" ( Matthew 15:28 ); "The greatest is charity" (love), the Revised Version, margin "greater" ( 1 Corinthians 13:13 ); "a great high priest" ( Hebrews 4:14 ); "the great shepherd …
94062 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ground; Grounded.8
… the faith, grounded and settled," the Revised Version (British and American) "steadfast," both themelioo, "to lay a foundation." In Ecclesiasticus 18:6 "ground" is …
94063 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Habakkuk.16
2. Faithfulness the Guarantee of Permanency
94064 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Habakkuk.31
… of faith. He possessed a strong, living faith in Yahweh; but he, like many other pious souls, was troubled and perplexed by the apparent inequalities of life …
94065 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Habakkuk.33
… his faith" (the American Revised Version, margin "faithfulness"). Faithfulness assures permanency. The thought expressed by the prophet is not identical with …
94066 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hagar.10
… by faith are Sarah's children. Thus Hagar corresponds to "the Jerusalem that now is," that is, the Jewish state which is in spiritual bondage with her children …
94067 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Haggai.4
… great faith (compare 2:1-5); it is possible that he was a priest also (compare 2:10-19). Like Malachi he bears the name of "Yahweh's messenger" (Heg 1:13; compare Malachi …
94068 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hananiah.14
(12) A governor of the castle, i.e. the birah or fortress, and by Nehemiah placed in charge of the whole city of Jerusalem, because "he was a faithful man, and feared God above many" ( Nehemiah 7:2 ).
94069 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Haran (2).2
… of faith to Canaan ( Genesis 12:1 ff). It was probably "the city of Nahor" to which Abraham's servant came to find a wife for Isaac ( Genesis 24:10 ff). Hither came Jacob …
94070 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Healing, Gifts of.4
… the faith of the recipient of the blessing ( Mark 6:5 - 6; 10:52; Acts 14:9 )--faith not only in God but in the human agent ( Acts 3:4 ff; Acts 5:15; 9:17 ). The healer himself is a person …
94071 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Healing, Gifts of.5
… that faith in God, working through the soul upon the body, is the mightiest of all healing influences, and that one who by his own faith and sympathy and force …
94072 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Healing, Gifts of.6
… early faith and spirituality, but partly through the growth of an ascetic temper which ignored Christ's gospel for the body and tended to the view that pain …
94073 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.61
… by faith, does not appear in Hebrews. Faith is less the personal, mystical relation with Christ, that it is for Paul, than a general hope which lays hold of the …
94074 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.74
… their faith and Christian life had been of a high order. They had a sound knowledge of the first principles of Christ ( Hebrews 6:1 ff). They had become "partakers …
94075 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.76
… be faithful to Him. He assumes an exclusively Jewish point of view in the minds of his readers as his major premise. He could scarcely do that, if they had been …
94076 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.77
… all faith into unbelief and materialism, like the Israelites in the wilderness ( Hebrews 3:7 ff), or Esau ( Hebrews 12:16 ). With all its references to Old Testament …
94077 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.98
4. Exhortations to faithfulness ( Hebrews 4:1 - 13 ). (1) Because a rest remains for the people of God ( Hebrews 4:1 - 11 ).
94078 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.123
1. Draw near to God and hold fast the faith ( Hebrews 10:19 - 23 ).
94079 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.125
3. Past faithfulness a ground for present confidence ( Hebrews 10:32 ff).
94080 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.126
… of faith ( Hebrews 11:1 ff). (1) What is faith? ( Hebrews 11:1 - 3 ). (2) The examples of faith ( Hebrews 11:4 - 32 ). (3) The triumphs of faith ( Hebrews 11:33 ff). 5. Run the race looking unto …