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94461 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.3
1. Faithfulness of God in the Old Testament
94462 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.4
2. Faithfulness of God in the New Testament
94463 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.6
Faithfulness is a quality or attribute applied in the Scripture to both God and man. This article is limited to the consideration of the Scripture teaching concerning the meaning of faithfulness in its application to God.
94464 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.7
… the Faithfulness of God (see UNCHANGEABLENESS ).
94465 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.8
… denoting faithfulness do not occur. It is implied in the covenant name Yahweh as unfolded in Exodus 3:13 - 15, which not only expresses God's self-existence …
94466 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.9
… adjective--"faithful"--and the nouns 'emeth and 'emunah--"faithfulness." The verbal stem 'aman means "to be secure or firm." In the Qal it denotes the firmness of that …
94467 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.10
… of faithfulness as above defined. As regards the noun 'emunah, apart from a few passages where it is doubtful whether it means truth or faithfulness, it usually …
94468 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.11
… God's faithfulness is closely related to His righteousness in the Old Testament. In the second half of the prophecy of Isaiah and in many of the psalms, righteousness …
94469 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.12
… and faithfulness is to observe that this should not be pressed to the extent of the identification of righteousness with covenant faithfulness in these …
94470 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.13
… His faithfulness, so that the only hope of His wayward people lay not only in His grace and mercy but also in His faithfulness, which stands in marked contrast …
94471 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.14
2. Faithfulness of God in the New Testament: In the New Testament teaching concerning the faithfulness of God the same idea of faithfulness to His gracious …
94472 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Faithful; Faithfulness.15
… denoting faithfulness and rectitude, after the analogy of the Septuagint rendering eleos kai aletheia for the Hebrew phrase "mercy and truth," in which truth …
94473 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 …
94474 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 …
94475 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 …
94476 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 ).
94477 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 …
94478 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 …
94479 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.
94480 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 …