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Word of Faith is a movement within charismatic Christianity which teaches that Christians can get power and financial prosperity through prayer, and that those who believe in Jesus' death and resurrection have the right to physical health.
The vocative "O ye of little faith", ολιγοπιστοι (oligopistoi), appears several times in the Gospels. Matthew uses the same phrase in verses 8:26 and 16:8, and it also appears in Luke 12:28. It is one of Jesus' strongest admonitions of his disciples. [citation needed]
I do not mean as some heretics hold, that the whole creation is animated—but by the power of the Maker things which to us have no consciousness have to Him." [3] Adamantius (Pseudo-Origen): "Therefore He gave commandment to the winds and the sea, and from a great storm it became a great calm. For it behoves Him that is great to do great ...
The word γάρ is a sort of conjunction and rarely occurs at the end of a sentence. [123] The word έφοβούντο does not mean merely 'afraid' but suggests a mention to the cause of the fear, as if to say "they were afraid of [something]", but this cause of fear is not stated in the verse. [124]
This passage concerning the function of faith in relation to the covenant of God is often used as a definition of faith. Υποστασις (hy-po'sta-sis), translated "assurance" here, commonly appears in ancient papyrus business documents, conveying the idea that a covenant is an exchange of assurances which guarantees the future transfer of possessions described in the contract.
The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [21] in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses ...
Hebrews 11 is the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The author is anonymous, although the internal reference to "our brother Timothy" (Hebrews 13:23) causes a traditional attribution to Paul, but this attribution has been disputed since the second century and there is no decisive evidence for the authorship.
This statement is traditionally called "The Word of Relationship" and in it Jesus entrusts Mary, his mother, into the care of "the disciple whom Jesus loved". [1] Jesus also addresses his mother as "woman" in John 2:4. [23] Although this sounds dismissive in English, the Greek word is a term of respect or tenderness.