For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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διά
Vocabulary form:
diav
Definition:
gen: through;
acc: on account of
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
667
GK:
1328
Cognates:
The diameter (diavmetroV) measures through the middle of an object.
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 28:2 | The native people showed us no ordinary kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because (dia | διά | prep-acc) it had begun to rain and because (dia | διά | prep-acc) of the cold. |
| Acts 28:18 | They examined me and wanted to release me, because (dia | διά | prep-acc) there was no basis for a death sentence against me. |
| Acts 28:20 | For (dia | διά | prep-acc) this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I wear this chain.” |
| Acts 28:25 | And not being in harmony among themselves, they departed after Paul made one further statement. “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through (dia | διά | prep-gen) Isaiah the prophet: |
| Romans 1:2 | which he promised beforehand through (dia | διά | prep-gen) his prophets in the holy scriptures, |
| Romans 1:5 | Through (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen) him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name, |
| Romans 1:8 | First of all, I thank my God through (dia | διά | prep-gen) Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world. |
| Romans 1:12 | that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by (dia | διά | prep-gen) each other’s faith, I by yours and you by mine. |
| Romans 1:26 | For (dia | διά | prep-acc) this reason God gave them over to degrading passions. Their women exchanged the natural sexual function for one that is unnatural, |
| Romans 2:12 | all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by (dia | διά | prep-gen) the law; |
| Romans 2:16 | on the day when God judges the secrets of everyone according to my gospel through (dia | διά | prep-gen) Christ Jesus. |
| Romans 2:23 | You who boast in the law, by (dia | διά | prep-gen) your breaking of the law you dishonor God! |
| Romans 2:24 | For as it is written, “On (di | δι᾿ | prep-acc) account (di | δι᾿ | prep-acc) of (di | δι᾿ | prep-acc) you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles.” |
| Romans 2:27 | And will not the one who by nature is uncircumcised yet fulfills the law judge you who have (dia | διά | prep-gen) the written code and circumcision yet are a transgressor of the law? |
| Romans 3:20 | So by the works of the law no flesh will be justified before him, because through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the law comes the knowledge of sin. |
| Romans 3:22 | It is the righteousness of God available through (dia | διά | prep-gen) faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. (There is no distinction, |
| Romans 3:24 | They are justified freely by his grace through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, |
| Romans 3:25 | whom God set forth as an atoning sacrifice by his blood, obtainable through (dia | διά | prep-gen) faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because (dia | διά | prep-acc) God in his forbearance had passed over previous sins. |
| Romans 3:27 | Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By (dia | διά | prep-gen) what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by (dia | διά | prep-gen) the law of faith. |
| Romans 3:30 | Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised on the basis of their faith and the uncircumcised by (dia | διά | prep-gen) the same faith. |
| Romans 3:31 | Do we therefore nullify the law through (dia | διά | prep-gen) faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law. |
| Romans 4:11 | He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would be the father of all who believe but have never been circumcised (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen), that they too might have righteousness credited to them. |
| Romans 4:13 | For the promise that he would be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the law, but through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the righteousness of faith. |
| Romans 4:16 | For (dia | διά | prep-acc) this reason the promise is based on faith, that it may depend on grace and be made certain to all his descendants, not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. |
| Romans 4:23 | But the statement, “it was credited to him,” was not written for (di | δι᾿ | prep-acc) his sake alone, |
| Romans 4:24 | but for (di | δι᾿ | prep-acc) our sake (di | δι᾿ | prep-acc) as well, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, |
| Romans 4:25 | who was delivered over to death for (dia | διά | prep-acc) our transgressions and raised for (dia | διά | prep-acc) our justification. |
| Romans 5:1 | Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through (dia | διά | prep-gen) our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| Romans 5:2 | through (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen) whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of sharing the glory of God. |
| Romans 5:5 | and hope does not disappoint us, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the Holy Spirit who was given to us. |
| Romans 5:9 | Since we have now been justified by his blood, much more will we be saved from the wrath of God through (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen) him. |
| Romans 5:10 | For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, will we be saved by his life. |
| Romans 5:11 | And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through (dia | διά | prep-gen) our Lord Jesus Christ, through (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen) whom we now have received reconciliation. |
| Romans 5:12 | Therefore (dia | διά | prep-acc), just as sin came into the world through (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen) one man, and death through (dia | διά | prep-gen) sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned —. |
| Romans 5:16 | And the gift is not like the result (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen) of that one man’s sin; for the judgment following the one transgression led to condemnation, but the free gift following the many transgressions led to justification. |
| Romans 5:17 | For if by the transgression of the one man death reigned through (dia | διά | prep-gen) that one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the one, Jesus Christ. |
| Romans 5:18 | Therefore, just as one man’s transgression brought condemnation for all so also one man’s righteous act brought justification and life for all |
| Romans 5:19 | For just as through (dia | διά | prep-gen) one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. |
| Romans 5:21 | so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through (dia | διά | prep-gen) righteousness leading to eternal life through (dia | διά | prep-gen) Jesus Christ our Lord. |
| Romans 6:4 | Therefore we were buried with him by (dia | διά | prep-gen) baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by (dia | διά | prep-gen) the glory of the Father, we might walk in newness of life. |
| Romans 6:19 | (I am speaking in human terms because (dia | διά | prep-acc) of your natural limitations.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification. |
| Romans 7:4 | So then, my brothers, you also have died to the law through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God. |
| Romans 7:5 | For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by (dia | διά | prep-gen) the law, were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death. |
| Romans 7:7 | What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the law; that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law said, “You shall not covet.” |
| Romans 7:8 | But sin, seizing the opportunity through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. (For apart from the law, sin is dead.) |
| Romans 7:11 | For sin, seizing the opportunity through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the commandment, deceived me and through (di | δι᾿ | prep-gen) it killed me. |
| Romans 7:13 | Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, produced death in me through (dia | διά | prep-gen) that which is good so that sin, through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the commandment, might be sinful beyond measure |
| Romans 7:25 | Thanks be to God through (dia | διά | prep-gen) Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. |
| Romans 8:3 | For what the law could not do, weak as it was through (dia | διά | prep-gen) the flesh, God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, condemned sin in the flesh, |
| Romans 8:10 | But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because (dia | διά | prep-acc) of sin, the Spirit is life because (dia | διά | prep-acc) of righteousness. |
Mnemonics
Mneumonic for Acc case
1 Peter 1:1 "to the elect exiles of the dispersion..." The Christians Peter was writing to were exiles /on account of/ the diaspora (dispersion).
Accusative
Are you ACCUSING me that it's ON my ACCOUNT, on my DIME.
The DIAmeter goes THROUGH the
The DIAmeter goes THROUGH the GENerated circle
ON ACCOUNT OF the DIAmetrically opposed ACCountants