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94541 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.52
… the faithful among the exiles had learned that Yahweh's rule extended over many lands and nations. The foreign influences had been more favorable to Monotheism …
94542 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 2.53
… mercy, faithfulness and loving-kindness, forgiveness and redemption are His willing gifts to Israel. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so Yahweh pitieth …
94543 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.12
… by faith is but the scholastic form of the parable of the Prodigal Son. John's one idea, that God is love, is but an abstract statement of His fatherhood. In complete …
94544 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.15
… through faith in Christ Jesus ( Galatians 3:26 ). "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God" ( Romans 8:14 ). These receive the spirit of adoption …
94545 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.30
… through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe" ( Romans 3:22 ) is the act of God, out of free grace, declaring and treating the sinner as righteous, that …
94546 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, Names of.31
… , e.g. faithfulness ( Isaiah 48:9 ), grace ( Psalms 23:3 ), His honor ( Psalms 79:9 ), etc. "Accordingly, since the name of God denotes this God Himself as He is revealed, and as …
94547 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Golgotha.7
… good faith, the authenticity of the places which are hallowed by the prayers of countless pilgrims since the days of Constantine" (loc. cit.).
94548 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Goodness.3
… , goodness, faith" ( Galatians 5:22 ); "in all goodness and righteousness and truth" ( Ephesians 5:9 ); "all the good pleasure of his goodness," the Revised Version (British …
94549 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gospel.5
… contrition, faith, justification, renewal and sanctification, deals with facts of revelation and experience.
94550 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gospels, the Synoptic.43
… their faith and guided their action.
94551 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gospels, the Synoptic.62
… the faith of the community, which the oldest evangelist already shares, Jesus is the miraculous Son of God, in whom men believe, whom men put wholly on the side …
94552 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Grace.5
… that faith involves moral effort, and so may be thought of as a sort of a "work"; it is quite true that faith does something as a preparation for receiving God's …
94553 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 …
94554 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 …
94555 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Habakkuk.16
2. Faithfulness the Guarantee of Permanency
94556 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 …
94557 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 …
94558 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 …
94559 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 …
94560 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 ).