Vocabulary Form
μή
Definition

not, lest

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
1042
GK
3590
Mnemonics

He may or may not!

Notes

Has the same basic meaning as ouj but is used in different situations that we will discuss later.

Biblical Concordance

Romans 12:19 Never (mē | μή | particle) avenge yourselves, dear friends, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:21 Do not (mē | μή | particle) be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 13:1 Every person must be subject to the governing authorities because there is no authority except by God’s appointment, and those that presently exist have been instituted by God.
Romans 13:3 For rulers are not a source of fear for those who do good, but for those who do wrong. Would you have no (mē | μή | particle) fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will receive his approval
Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:13 Let us live becomingly, as in the daytime, not (mē | μή | particle) in carousing and drunkenness, not (mē | μή | particle) in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not (mē | μή | particle) in strife and jealousy.
Romans 13:14 Rather, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no (mē | μή | particle) provision for the sinful nature to gratify its desires.
Romans 14:1 Accept the one who is weak in faith, but do not (mē | μή | particle) argue about his personal opinions.
Romans 14:3 The one who eats everything must not (mē | μή | particle) hold in contempt the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) and the one who abstains (mē | μή | particle) must not (mē | μή | particle) judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
Romans 14:6 The one who observes the day observes it for the Lord. And the one who eats, eats for the Lord, because he gives thanks to God; and the one who abstains (mē | μή | particle) from eating, abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Romans 14:13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but resolve instead, never (mē | μή | particle) to put an obstacle or a trap in a brother’s way.
Romans 14:14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; however, to the one who considers something to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Romans 14:15 if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not (mē | μή | particle) destroy by what you eat that brother for whom Christ died.
Romans 14:16 Therefore do not (mē | μή | particle) let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.
Romans 14:20 Do not (mē | μή | particle), for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. All food is indeed clean, but it is wrong to cause another to stumble by what you eat.
Romans 14:21 It is good not (mē | μή | particle) to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything that makes your brother stumble.
Romans 14:22 The faith that you have, keep as your own conviction before God. Blessed is the one who has no (mē | μή | particle) reason to condemn himself for what he approves.
Romans 15:1 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not (mē | μή | particle) to please ourselves.
Romans 15:20 And thus I have always made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was known, lest I should build on someone else’s foundation;
1 Corinthians 1:7 so that you do not (mē | μή | particle) lack in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:10 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all come to agreement and that there be no (mē | μή | particle) divisions among you, but that you be united in the same frame of mind and the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 1:13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
1 Corinthians 1:14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,
1 Corinthians 1:15 so that no (mē | μή | particle) one can say that you were baptized in my name.
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be rendered ineffective.