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95741 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Continue, Continuance.14
… the faith, Colossians 1:23; in doctrine, 1 Timothy 4:16; elsewhere of abiding in a place. See ABIDE, TARRY.
95742 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Convert, Conversion.7
… and faith; cp. "turned to God from idols" ( 1 Thessalonians 1:9 ). Divine grace is the efficient cause, human agency the responding effect.
95743 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Convict.3
… the faith, Titus 1:9; transgressors of the Law, James 2:9; some texts have the verb in John 8:9; (b) "to reprove," 1 Corinthians 14:24, RV (for AV, "convince"), for the unbeliever …
95744 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Corrupt, Verb and Adjective. Corruption, Corruptible, Incorruption, Incorruptible.10
kata, "down," intensive, and No. 2, is said of men who are reprobate concerning the faith, "corrupted in mind" (AV, "corrupt"), 2 Timothy 3:8. For 2 Peter 2:12, RV, "shall be destroyed," see No. 2.
95745 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Cross, Crucify.3
… Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration …
95746 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Cross, Crucify.4
… Christian faith, that letter was the initial of the word "Christ" and had nothing to do with "the Cross" (for xulon, "a timber beam, a tree," as used for the stauros, see …
95747 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Cross, Crucify.6
The judicial custom by which the condemned person carried his stake to the place of execution, was applied by the Lord to those sufferings by which His faithful followers were to express their fellowship with Him, e.g., Matthew 10:38 .
95748 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Dead.3
… ) the faith that does not produce works, James 2:17, 26; cp. ver. 20. * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, p. 143.]
95749 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Declare, Declaration.3
… new faith); in Acts 20:20, RV, "declaring," AV, "have shewed;" in 1 John 1:5, RV, "announce," AV, "declare." See REHEARSE, REPORT, SHEW, SPEAK, TELL.
95750 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Degree.3
denotes "a step," primarily of a threshold or stair, and is akin to baino, "to go;" figuratively, "a standing, a stage in a career, position, degree," 1 Timothy 3:13, of faithful deacons.
95751 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Demon, Demoniac.5
… exercising faith, e.g., Matthew 17:20 .
95752 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Destroy, Destroyer, Destruction, Destructive.21
… "the faith" is put by metonymy (one thing being put for another associated with it), for those who held the faith. In each of these places the RV consistently translates …
95753 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Disannul, Disannulling.3
… breaking faith with. See DESPISE, A, Note (1).
95754 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Disbelieve.3
… , pistis, "faith;" cp. apistos, "unbelieving"), is translated "believed not," etc., in the AV (except in 1 Peter 2:7, "be disobedient"); "disbelieve" (or "disbelieved") in the RV, in Mark …
95755 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Disperse, Dispersion.11
… Christian faith, "the Dispersion," James 1:1, RV; especially of believers who were converts from Judaism and "scattered" throughout certain districts, "sojourners …
95756 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Dissimulation, Dissemble.7
… ;" of faith, 1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 1:5, "unfeigned;" of the wisdom that is from above, James 3:17, "without hypocrisy." See HYPOCRISY.
95757 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Dominion.8
… the faith of other believers, 2 Corinthians 1:24 (RV, "lordship"). See LORD.
95758 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Door.3
… ; of faith, by acceptance of the Gospel, Acts 14:27; of "openings" for preaching and teaching the Word of God, 1 Corinthians 16:9; 2 Corinthians 2:12; Colossians 4:3; Revelation …
95759 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Doubt, Doubtful, Doubting.7
… of faith, as lack of it (contrast, Nos. 4 and 5).
95760 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Doubt, Doubtful, Doubting.9
"to stand in two ways" (dis, "double," stasis, "a standing"), implying "uncertainty which way to take," is used in Matthew 14:31; Matthew 28:17; said of believers whose faith is small. Cp. No. 5.