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God’s trustworthiness in fulfilling God’s promises
- In the New Testament, pistis tends to mean trust, trustworthiness, faithfulness, or belief. For example, when Jesus tells the disciples, “Have pistis in God” (Mark 11:22), he is urging them to trust in God when they pray. When Paul speaks of God’s pistis (e.g., Rom 3:3), he is referring to God’s trustworthiness in fulfilling God’s promises.
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May 3, 2023 · When the apostle Paul uses the Greek phrase pistis christou, which has “Christ” in the genitive case, should it be translated as “faith in Christ” (objective genitive) or “faith of Christ” (subjective genitive). This is important to the understanding of Philippians 3:9.
Paul writes in Hebrews 3:15, "Today, if you will hear His voice." He is not pressing us to hear the sound of His voice, but to understand what God wants us to learn through what Paul, the preacher, is expounding in his epistle. Paul is urging us to take the time now to "get" it, to "see" or "grasp" what God is teaching.
May 23, 2011 · Translating pistis christou as “faithfulness of Christ” is theologically attractive. The theme of “union with Christ” is a powerful one in Pauline theology, and it makes good sense of a number of passages.
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Romans 1:17 (NA28) δικαιοσύνη γὰρ θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀποκαλύπτεται ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν καθὼς γέγραπται ὁ δὲ δίκαιος ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται. (My translation) For in it the righteousness of God is revealed by faith unto faith, just as it is ...
May 25, 2021 · This debate is over whether the phrase pistis Christou, which occurs eight times in Paul’s letters, means “faith in Christ” (as the ESV translates it) or “the faithfulness of Christ” (as the NET Bible translates it). The phrase on its own is ambiguous in Greek and can really mean either one.
Jul 25, 2024 · Paul continues in Romans 10:17 to summarize the argument thus far: “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ” (NASB). “Faith” is translated from the Greek word pistis, which means “belief, trust, or confidence in someone or something.”.
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When Paul speaks of God’s pistis (e.g., Rom 3:3), he is referring to God’s trustworthiness in fulfilling God’s promises. When Paul reminds the Corinthians “that Christ died for our sins,” he says, “so we preach, and so you episteusate,” meaning “so you believed” (1Cor 15:11).
