STRONGS G2150:
εὐσέβεια,
-ας,
ἡ, (
εὐσεβής),
reverence, respect; in the Bible everywhere
piety toward God, godliness:
Acts 3:12;
1 Timothy 2:2;
1 Timothy 4:7,
8;
1 Timothy 6:5f,
11;
2 Timothy 3:5;
2 Peter 1:3,
6f;
ἡ κατ’ εὐσέβειαν διδασκαλία, the doctrine that promotes godliness,
1 Timothy 6:3 [see
κατά, II. 3 d.];
ἡ ἀλήθεια ἡ κατ’ εὐσέβειαν, the truth that leads to godliness,
Titus 1:1;
τὸ μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας, the mystery which is held by godliness and nourishes it,
1 Timothy 3:16; in plural, aims and acts of godliness,
2 Peter 3:11; cf.
Pfieiderer, Paulinism., p. 477f [English translation, ii. 209f]. (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Xenophon, Plato, and following; often in Josephus;
Sept. Proverbs 1:7;
Proverbs 13:11;
Isaiah 11:2; Wis. 10:12; often in 4 Macc.;
πρὸς τὸν θεόν, Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5, 2; [
περὶ τὸ θεῖον] contra Apion 1, 22, 2;
εἰς θεοὺς καὶ γονέας, Plato, rep. 10, p. 615 c.) [Cf. Schmidt, chapter 181.]
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