mGNT Concordance for θεὸς

“And don't presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

“If that's how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won't he do much more for you ​— ​you of little faith?

“For God said:[fn] Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.

“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

“I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He[fn] is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

“Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

“And as for the dead being raised ​— ​haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

Jesus answered, “The most important[fn] is Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[fn]

“For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn't been from the beginning of creation until now and never will be again.

“He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel,

because he has visited

and provided redemption for his people.

“Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And don't start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

Then fear[fn] came over everyone, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us,” and “God has visited[fn] his people.”

“Consider the ravens: They don't sow or reap; they don't have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren't you worth much more than the birds?

“If that's how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will he do for you ​— ​you of little faith?

And he told them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God's sight.

“Will not God grant justice to his elect who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay helping them?[fn]

“He is not the God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to[fn] him.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

No one has ever seen God. The one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father's side[fn] ​— ​he has revealed him.

This man came to him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.”

“For God loved the world in this way:[fn] He gave[fn] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

The one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn't come on my own, but he sent me.

“If I glorify myself,” Jesus answered, “my glory is nothing. My Father ​— ​about whom you say, ‘He is our God' ​— ​he is the one who glorifies me.

“We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to him.

When he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.

“God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death.

“Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants[fn] on his throne.

“For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.

“You killed the source[fn] of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

“In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets ​— ​that his Messiah would suffer.

“Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through his holy prophets from the beginning.

“You are the sons[fn] of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.

“let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead ​— ​by him this man is standing here before you healthy.

“The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging him on a tree.

“Brothers and fathers,” he replied, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

“God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him

“As the time was approaching to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

“He assumed his people would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

“I am the God of your ancestors ​— ​the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

“This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge? ​— ​this one God sent as a ruler and a deliverer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

“This is the Moses who said to the Israelites: God[fn] will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.

“God turned away and gave them up to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices

for forty years in the wilderness?

“Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, until the days of David.

Again, a second time, the voice said to him, “What God has made clean, do not call impure.”

Peter said to them, “You know it's forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean.

“how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil, because God was with him.

“God raised up this man on the third day and caused him to be seen,

“But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call impure.'

“If, then, God gave them the same gift that he also gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I possibly hinder God? ”

“The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, made the people prosper during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty[fn] arm.

“Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

“From this man's descendants, as he promised, God brought to Israel the Savior, Jesus.[fn]

“But God raised him from the dead,

“God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm:

You are my Son;

today I have become your Father.[fn]

“but the one God raised up did not decay.

After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them and that he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you,[fn] that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

The whole assembly became silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul describe all the signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

“Simeon[fn] has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his name.

After he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

“The God who made the world and everything in it ​— ​he is Lord of heaven and earth ​— ​does not live in shrines made by hands.

“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul's hands,

After greeting them, he reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

“And he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the words from his mouth,

“Why do any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

“and said, ‘Don't be afraid, Paul. It is necessary for you to appear before Caesar. And indeed, God has graciously given you all those who are sailing with you.'

since what can be known[fn] about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.

Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women[fn] exchanged natural sexual relations[fn] for unnatural ones.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.

on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That you may be justified in your words

and triumph when you judge.

God presented him as the mercy seat[fn] by his blood, through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

Likewise, David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering,[fn]

What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Who can bring an accusation against God's elect? God is the one who justifies.

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent,[fn] came the Christ, who is God over all, praised forever.[fn] Amen.

And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

as it is written,

God gave them a spirit of stupor,

eyes that cannot see

and ears that cannot hear,

to this day.

because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.

For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may have mercy on all.

For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.

One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him.

Now may the God who gives[fn] endurance and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, according to Christ Jesus,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

May the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

God is faithful; you were called by him into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law?[fn] Where is the debater of this age? Hasn't God made the world's wisdom foolish?

Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

On the contrary, we speak God's hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined before the ages for our glory.

But as it is written,

What no eye has seen, no ear has heard,

and no human heart has conceived —

God has prepared these things for those who love him.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,”[fn] and that “there is no God but one.”

yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him.

But as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted.

which our respectable parts do not need.

Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable,

And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.[fn]

The secrets of his heart will be revealed, and as a result he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is really among you.”

since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

As in all the churches of the saints,

When everything is subject to Christ, then the Son himself will also be subject to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

But God gives it a body as he wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.

As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,[fn] who is the image of God.

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we[fn] are the temple of the living God, as God said:

I will dwell

and walk among them,

and I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

We, however, will not boast beyond measure but according to the measure of the area of ministry that God has assigned to us, which reaches even to you.

Why? Because I don't love you? God knows I do!

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

I know a man in Christ who was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don't know; God knows.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice.[fn] Become mature, be encouraged,[fn] be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

But when God, who from my mother's womb set me apart and called me by his grace, was pleased

Now from those recognized as important (what they[fn] once were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism[fn]) ​— ​they added nothing to me.

Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations[fn] will be blessed through you.

Now a mediator is not just for one person alone, but God is one.

When the time came to completion, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our[fn] hearts, crying, “Abba,[fn] Father! ”

Don't be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap,

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,[fn] would give you the Spirit[fn] of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us,[fn]

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you[fn] in Christ.

For this reason God highly exalted him

and gave him the name

that is above every name,

For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.

Indeed, he was so sick that he nearly died. However, God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.

Do what you have learned and received and heard from me, and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,

For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives ​— ​God is our witness ​— ​

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.

For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In view of this, we always pray for you that our God will make you worthy of his calling, and by his power fulfill your every desire to do good[fn] and your work produced by faith,

For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie,

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning[fn] God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power,[fn] love, and sound judgment.

instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways.

For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in this way: And on the seventh day God rested from all his works.

For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love[fn] you demonstrated for his name by serving the saints ​— ​and by continuing to serve them.

Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,

But they now desire a better place ​— ​a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

for our God is a consuming fire.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus ​— ​the great Shepherd of the sheep ​— ​through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God,” since God is not tempted by evil, and he himself doesn't tempt anyone.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn't God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says:

God resists the proud

but gives grace to the humble.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God's words; if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with[fn] humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud

but gives grace to the humble.

The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ,[fn] will himself restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little while.[fn]

For if God didn't spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell[fn] and delivered them in chains[fn] of utter darkness to be kept for judgment;

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in him.

whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows all things.

The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God ​— ​God remains in him and he in God.

The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about his Son.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one.[fn] We are in the true one ​— ​that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Each of the four living creatures had six wings; they were covered with eyes around and inside. Day and night they never stop,[fn] saying,

Holy, holy, holy,

Lord God, the Almighty,

who was, who is, and who is to come.

Our Lord and God,[fn]

you are worthy to receive

glory and honor and power,

because you have created all things,

and by your will

they exist and were created.

For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne

will shepherd them;

he will guide them to springs of the waters of life,

and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

saying,

We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty,

who is and who was,[fn]

because you have taken your great power

and have begun to reign.

They sang the song of God's servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:

Great and awe-inspiring are your works,

Lord God, the Almighty;

just and true are your ways,

King of the nations.[fn]

I heard the altar say,

Yes, Lord God, the Almighty,

true and just are your judgments.

“For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his plan by having one purpose and to give their kingdom[fn] to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.

For her sins are piled up[fn] to heaven,

and God has remembered her crimes.

For this reason her plagues will come in just one day —

death and grief and famine.

She will be burned up with fire,

because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

Rejoice over her, heaven,

and you saints, apostles, and prophets,

because God has pronounced on her the judgment she passed on you!

Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying,

Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty,

reigns!

Then I heard a loud voice from the throne:[fn] Look, God's dwelling[fn] is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples,[fn] and God himself will be with them and will be their God.[fn]

“The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.

I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Night will be no more; people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.