Definition
not, lest
not, lest
He may or may not!
All do μή speak in tongues, do they? (1 Cor 12:29)
Has the same basic meaning as οὐ but is used in different situations that we will discuss later.
| 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. |