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- Dictionarygodly/ˈɡɒdli/
adjective
- 1. devoutly religious; pious: "how to live the godly life"
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1 Timothy 6:11. But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. I want to say that godliness means "to be God-like" but these passages I quoted seem to be saying something different. They include godliness in a list among other virtues, implying that it is a peer of those ...
The latter nature, however, evolves in a progressive, sanctified direction; first, because of God's induement of the wherewithal to live godly lives, and second, because of our ongoing decisions to live according to the principles laid down for us in the faith, once and for all delivered to the saints (v. 1; cf. Jude 1:3).
Since this kind of godly or pious living (cf Titus 1:1) is nothing that any of us, Christian or nonchristian, can accomplish through our self-effort (Lk 18:18-19; Rm 1:18--2:24; 3:19-20; 7:23-24), then the healthy teaching must be the giving of grace, and not rule-keeping.
The use of the two different words describing what man may do, then, is to point out how unlikely and difficult godly mercy is for man and how unlike man's mercy God's mercy is. Isaiah 55 shows us that, as the heaven's are higher than the earth, so God's ways, as regarding mercy, are higher than man's ways.
Mar 23, 2022 · The term 'sinners' could apply to outwardly godly evil-doers. But when Peter even includes those who are busy-bodies in other people's affairs, he could be thinking of Christians. He had just said that Christians should only suffer for bearing the name of Christ, and not for being murderers, thieves, evil-doers or busy-bodies.
Paul Flesh = ungodly Spirit = godly *for Paul flesh is anything that is anti christ down from actions, beliefs, feelings, thoughts, behaviors, sickness, death, poverty, lack, etc. It's pretty much every problem, including pride that exhausts itself as either above god or in direct opposition to god.
During this period of amazing Sethite expansion (chap. 5), the Sethite family marries outside its godly heritage, which results in moral decline. ʾĔlōhīm can be rendered as a genitive of quality, meaning “godly sons,” referring to the heritage of the Sethites. …bĕnê hāʾĕlōhīm has analogues pointing to human referents. [fn. 108 ...
Dec 31, 2021 · When I say Adam and Eve gained the ability to "define" good and evil for themselves, what I mean is they gained the ability to (1) come up with notions of good and evil that deviate from what good and evil truly are(i.e. what God says good and evil are) and (2) believe in and accept said notions.
Mar 19, 2021 · John 10:33-36 (YLT): 33 The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.' 34 Jesus answered them, ...
Oct 8, 2023 · Whenever I look up dictionary definitions for faith it says faith means to trust I look up definition for trust it means confidence...the definition of confidence says trust or faith...the definiti...
