Lexicon :: Strong's G3049 - logizomai

“For I tell you, what is written must be fulfilled in me:[fn] And he was counted among the lawless. Yes, what is written about me is coming to its fulfillment.”

“You’re not considering that it is to your[fn] advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

“Not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin ​— ​the very one all of Asia and the world worship.”

Do you think ​— ​anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same ​— ​that you will escape God’s judgment?

So if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.

Blessed is the person

the Lord will never charge with sin.

Therefore, it was credited to him for righteousness.

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.[fn]

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

As it is written:

Because of you

we are being put to death all day long;

we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent[fn] who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.

A person should think of us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of the mysteries of God.

is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.

It is not that we are competent in[fn] ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

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.

I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are living according to the flesh.

Look at what is obvious.[fn] If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

Let such a person consider this: What we are in our letters, when we are absent, we will also be in our actions when we are present.

Now I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”

For if I want to boast, I wouldn’t be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

just like Abraham who believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness?

Brothers and sisters, I do not[fn] consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

Finally[fn] brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable ​— ​if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy ​— ​dwell on these things.

At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them.

He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead; therefore, he received him back, figuratively speaking.[fn]

and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God’s friend.

Through Silvanus,[fn] a faithful brother (as I consider him), I have written to you briefly in order to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it!