πίστις

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faith

πίστις , -εως, ἡ (πείθω), [in LXX chiefly for אֱמוּנָה ;] __1. in active sense, faith, belief, trust, confidence , in NT always of religious faith in God or Christ or spiritual things: Mat.8:10 , Luk.5:20 , Act.14:9 , Rom.1:8 , 1Co.2:5 , 2Co.1:24 , 1Ti.1:5 , al.; with genitive obj., Mrk.11:22 , Act.3:16 , Rom.3:22 , Gal.2:16 , Eph.3:12 , Jas.2:1 , al.; with prep., ἐν, Rom.3:25 , Gal.3:26 , Eph.1:15 , Col.1:24 , 1Ti.1:14 3:13 , 2Ti.1:13 3:15 , 2Pe.1:1 ; εἰς, Act.20:21 24:24 26:18 , Col.2:5 , 1Pe.1:21 ; πρός, 1Th.1:8 , Phm 5; ἐπί, with accusative Heb.6:1; ἐν τῇ π. στήκειν (εἶναι, μένειν), 1Co.16:13 , 1Co.13:5 , 1Ti.2:15 ; ὑπακοὴ τῆς π., Rom.1:5 16:26 ; ὁ ἐκ π., Rom.3:26 4:16 , Gal.3:12 ; διὰ (τῆς) π., Rom.3:30 , Gal.2:16 , Php.3:9 . By meton., objectively, that which is the object or content of belief, the faith : Act.6:7 14:22 , Gal.1:23 3:23 6:10 , Php.1:26, 27 Ju 3, 20 , and perh. also Act.13:8 16:5 , Rom.1:5 and 16:26 (see supr.), 1Co.16:13 , Col.1:23 , 2Th.3:2 (Lft., Notes , 125), 1Ti.1:19 3:9 4:1, 6 5:8 6:10 , 12, 2Ti.3:8 4:7 Tit.1:4, 13 3:15 , 1Pe.5:9 . __2. In passive sense, __(a) fidelity, faithfulness : Mat.23:23 , Gal.5:22 ; ἡ π. τοῦ θεοῦ, Rom.3:3; __(b) objectively, plighted faith, a pledge of fidelity: 1Ti.5:12. (On the various shades of meaning in which the word is used in NT, see esp. ICC on Rom.1:17 , pp. 31ff.; Lft., Ga. , 154ff.; Stevens, Th. NT , 422, 515ff.; DB , i, 830ff.; Cremer, see word) (AS)