θεός | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

θεός, -οῦ, -ὁ

Definition

God, god

Erasmian

Modern

Root

θεο

Frequency

1317

2536

Cognates

Theology is the study of God.

Mnemonic Singing

God of our fathers, whose almighty hand.

Song

Verse

“ ‘Emmanuel’ is translated ‘θεός is with us.’ ” (Matt 1:23)

“I found also an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an unknown θεός.’ ” (Acts 17:23)

Biblical Concordance

1 John 2:17	The world is passing away with all its desires, but the one who does the will of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) remains forever.
1 John 3:1	See what great love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) — and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:2	Dear friends, at the present time we are children of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc), and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. But we do know that when he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
1 John 3:8	The one who continues to sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) appeared for this purpose — that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:9	No one born of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) makes a practice of sinning, because God’s seed abides in him. He cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc).
1 John 3:10	By this the children of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) and the children of the devil are revealed: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc), nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:17	But whoever has this world’s resources and sees his fellow Christian in need yet closes his heart against him, how does the love of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) abide in him?
1 John 3:20	that if our conscience condemns us, that God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) is greater than our conscience and knows all things.
1 John 3:21	Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc),
1 John 4:1	Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to find out whether they are from God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc), because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:2	This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc),
1 John 4:3	but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc). This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world.
1 John 4:4	Little children, you have been born of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:6	We are from God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc). The person who knows God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc) listens to us, but whoever is not from God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:7	Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc), and everyone who loves has been born of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) and knows God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc).
1 John 4:8	The person who does not love does not know God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc), because God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) is love.
1 John 4:9	By this the love of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc) is revealed to us: that God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:10	In this is love, not that we have loved God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc) but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11	Dear friends, if God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) loved us like that, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:12	No one has ever seen God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc). If we love one another, God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) abides in us, and his love has achieved its goal in us.
1 John 4:15	If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc), God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) abides in him and he in God (theō \| θεῷ \| dat sg masc).
1 John 4:16	And we have come to know and to trust the love that God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) has for us. God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God (theō \| θεῷ \| dat sg masc), and God (theos \| θεός \| nom sg masc) abides in him.
1 John 4:20	If someone says, “I love God,” (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc) yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc) whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:21	And the commandment we have from him is this: the one who loves God (theon \| θεόν \| acc sg masc) must also love his brother.
1 John 5:1	Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God (theou \| θεοῦ \| gen sg masc), and everyone who loves the father loves his child.