Bill Mounce
For an Informed Love of God
For an Informed Love of God
Matthew 23:15 | “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel over land and sea to gain a single convert (prosēlyton | προσήλυτον | acc sg masc); and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. |
Acts 2:11 | Jews and proselytes (prosēlytoi | προσήλυτοι | nom pl masc), Cretans and Arabians — we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” |
Acts 6:5 | And the proposal pleased the entire group, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus, a proselyte (prosēlyton | προσήλυτον | acc sg masc) of Antioch. |
Acts 13:43 | And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts (prosēlytōn | προσηλύτων | gen pl masc) followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, were persuading them to continue in the grace of God. |