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94521 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 …
94522 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 …
94523 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 …
94524 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 …
94525 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 …
94526 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 …
94527 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 …
94528 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 …
94529 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 …
94530 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 ).
94531 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 …
94532 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 …
94533 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.
94534 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 …
94535 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 …
94536 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.
94537 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 …
94538 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 …
94539 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 …
94540 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 ).