Category Bible Studies

1      Every soul, submit to higher (powers). For no authority (jurisdiction, power) is if not from God: but the jurisdictions (authorities/powers) (are) by the God established. (tetagmenai – having-been-set)

1   πασα ψυχη εξουσιαις υπερεχουσαις υποτασσεσθω ου γαρ εστιν εξουσια ει μη απο θεου αι δε ουσαι εξουσιαι υπο του θεου τεταγμεναι εισιν

1849 εξουσια exousia ex-oo-see’-ah      from 1832 (in the sense of ability);  n f                         AV-power 69, authority 29, right 2, liberty 1, jurisdiction 1, strength 1; 103

1) power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases

1a) leave or permission

2) physical and mental power

2a) the...

1         Yet the weak (one) to the faith, receive, but not to discrimination (distinctions, preferences, differences) of debates (deliberations, questions).

1         τον δε ασθενουντα τη πιστει προσλαμβανεσθε μη εις διακρισεις διαλογισμων

1261 διαλογισμός dialogismos dee-al-og-is-mos’       from 1260; n m         AV-thought 9, reasoning 1, imagination 1, doubtful 1, disputing 1, doubting 1; 14

1) the thinking of a man deliberating with himself

1a) a thought, inward reasoning

1b) purpose, design

2) a deliberating, questioning about what is true

2a) hesitation, doubting

2b) disputing, arguing

1260 διαλογίζομαι dialogizomai  dee-al-og-id’-zom-ahee     from 1223 an...

1    Yet we the able (dunatoi – with power) are obligated (opheilomen – owe; ought) to bear the impotence (adunaton – powerlessness; inability) of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1       οφειλομεν δε ημεις οι δυνατοι τα ασθενηματα των αδυνατων βασταζειν και μη εαυτοις αρεσκειν

2    For each of us, let him be pleasing to the neighbour into the good toward edification (oikodomen  home-building; a building up).

2       εκαστος γαρ ημων τω πλησιον αρεσκετω εις το αγαθον προς οικοδομην

3    For also the Christ pleased not Himself; but, according as it has been written, ‘The reproaches of those reproaching You fell upon Me...