Biblical Concept: Empty, Vain (keno,j)
This study looks at the Greek word: keno,j – empty, vain
Findings:
Gentiles, empty things toward Jesus.
Grace + positive volition counters empty.
Resurrected Christ overcomes empty.
“Work in the Lord” overcomes empty.
Toil in the Lord overcomes empty.
Grace minus positive volition = empty.
Grace + positive volition counters empty.
Empty words.
Deception, empty words relationship.
Sons of disobedience, deception, empty words, relationship.
“Holding fast the word of life” overcomes empty.
“empty deception, according to the tradition of men”
Tempter empty / vain relationship.
Foolish = keno,j = empty fellow.
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NAS Mark 12:3 "And they took him, and beat him, and sent
him away empty-handed. (Parable)
NAS Luke 1:53 "He has filled the hungry with good things;
And sent away the rich empty-handed. (Mary speaking.)
NAS Luke 20:10 "And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order that
they might give him some of the produce
of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
(Parable)
11 "And he proceeded
to send another slave; and they beat him also and treated him shamefully, and
sent him away empty-handed. (Parable)
NAS Acts 4:25 who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Thy servant, didst say, 'Why
did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples devise futile things? (Gentiles, empty
things toward Jesus.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace
toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not
I, but the grace of God with me. (Grace + positive volition counters empty.)
14 and if Christ has not
been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. (Resurrected
Christ overcomes empty.)
58 Therefore, my beloved
brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
knowing that your toil is not in vain
in the Lord. (“Work in the Lord” overcomes empty.) (Toil in the Lord overcomes
empty.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 6:1 And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—
(Grace minus positive volition = empty.)
NAS Galatians 2:2 And it was because of a revelation that I went
up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of
reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. (Grace +
positive volition counters empty.)
NAS Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for
because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
(Empty words.) (Deception, empty words relationship.) (Sons of disobedience,
deception, empty words, relationship.)
NAS Philippians 2:16 holding fast the word of life, so that in the day
of Christ I may have cause to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in
vain. (“Holding fast the word of life” overcomes empty.)
NAS Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy
and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the
elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. (“empty
deception, according to the tradition of men”)
NAS 1 Thessalonians 2:1 For you yourselves know, brethren, that our
coming to you was not in vain, (Grace + positive volition counters empty.)
NAS 1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out
about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our
labor should be in vain. (Tempter empty / vain relationship.)
NAS James 2:20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish
fellow, that faith without works is useless? (Foolish = keno,j = empty fellow.)