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Religion
Verses
4 results- VerseJames 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- VerseActs 25:19They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
- VerseJames 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- VerseActs 26:5They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
Words (Strong's)
4 results- WordG2356 θρησκεία · thrēskeía (Greek)ceremonial observance. The Greek word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordG1175 δεισιδαιμονία · deisidaimonía (Greek)religion. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG2454 Ἰουδαϊσμός · Ioudaïsmós (Greek)"Judaism", i.e. the Jewish faith and usages. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordG4847 συμπολίτης · sympolítēs (Greek)a native of the same town, i.e. (figuratively) co-religionist (fellow-Christian). The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
Topics
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4 results- VoiceJohn Calvin# John Calvin (1509–1564) French-born Reformer, theologian, and exegete. Primary systematic-theology voice of the Reformed tradition; his *Institutes of the Christian Religion*…
- VoiceKeith GreenKeith Green was a child performer in Los Angeles with a record contract at eleven, and spent his teens looking for God in eastern religion and drugs before he and his wife…
- VoiceArchelaus of CarrhaeIn the third century a Persian prophet named Mani announced a new religion. It taught two eternal powers, light and darkness, locked in a war that had produced the world; it…
- VoiceClement of AlexandriaTitus Flavius Clemens was born around 150, probably at Athens, to pagan parents, and raised in the full Greek education — Homer, the tragedians, Plato, the mystery religions…
Apocrypha (study resources)
6 results- Study resource1 Maccabees 1:43Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:22We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 6:24For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, being fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a…
- Study resource2 Maccabees 14:38For in the former times, when they mingled not themselves with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and did boldly jeopard his body and life with all vehemency for the…
- Study resource2 Maccabees 8:1Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’…