Biblical Concept: Gnosis
Gnosis / gnw/sij – knowledge
Findings
“knowledge of salvation”
“knowledge of salvation,” “forgiveness of their sins,”
relationship.
“Lawyers” … “taken
away the key of knowledge”
Paul re Hebrews:
“having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge”
“knowledge of God!” – depth, riches, wisdom, unsearchable
judgements, unfathomable ways.
Re Romans: “filled
with all knowledge”
To Corinthians:
“enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge”
Re Corinthians:
“we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant”
Weak believers:
“not all men have this knowledge”
To Corinthians:
“who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple”
Re Corinthians:
“For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined”
“to another the word of knowledge according to the same
Spirit”
All knowledge
versus love.
Gifts: “knowledge,
it will be done away”
Tongues,
knowledge, relationship.
Via God: “sweet
aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place”
“knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ”
Ministry,
knowledge, relationship.
Corinthians:
abound, knowledge.
2 Corinthians 10:5 We are destroying
speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the
knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
Paul: “if I am
unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in
knowledge”
“to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge”
Paul: “I count all
things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord”
Colossians 2:3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Re Christ)
Avoid, worldly,
empty chatter, false, knowledge.
Relationship:
diligence, faith, moral excellence, knowledge.
Relationship:
knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness.
“grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”
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NAS Luke
1:77 To give to His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins, (“knowledge of salvation”)
(“knowledge of salvation,” “forgiveness of their sins,” relationship.)
NAS Luke
11:52 "Woe to you lawyers!
For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter in yourselves,
and those who were entering in you hindered." (“Lawyers” … “taken away the
key of knowledge”)
NAS Romans 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the
immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, (Paul
re Hebrews: “having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge”)
NAS Romans
11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and
unfathomable His ways! (“knowledge of God!” – depth, riches, wisdom,
unsearchable judgements, unfathomable ways.)
NAS Romans
15:14 And concerning you, my
brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness,
filled with all knowledge, and able also to admonish one another. (Re Romans:
“filled with all knowledge”)
NAS 1
Corinthians 1:5 that in
everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge, (To Corinthians:
“enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge”)
NAS 1
Corinthians 8:1 Now concerning
things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes
arrogant, but love edifies. (Re Corinthians: “we all have knowledge. Knowledge
makes arrogant”)
7 However not all men have this
knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an
idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. (Weak believers: “not all men
have this knowledge”)
10 For if someone sees you, who
have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is
weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? (To Corinthians: “who
have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple”)
11 For through your knowledge he
who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. (Re Corinthians:
“For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined”)
NAS 1
Corinthians 12:8 For to one is
given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of
knowledge according to the same Spirit; (“to another the word of knowledge
according to the same Spirit”)
NAS 1
Corinthians 13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all
mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. (All knowledge versus love.)
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will
be done away; if there are tongues,
they will cease; if there is knowledge,
it will be done away. (Gifts: “knowledge, it will be done away”)
NAS 1
Corinthians 14:6 But now,
brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what shall I profit you, unless
I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of
teaching? (Tongues, knowledge, relationship.)
NAS 2
Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to
God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the
sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. (Via God: “sweet aroma of
the knowledge of Him in every place”)
NAS 2
Corinthians 4:6 For God, who
said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone
in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Christ. (“knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ”)
NAS 2
Corinthians 6:6 in purity, in
knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
(Ministry, knowledge, relationship.)
NAS 2
Corinthians 8:7 But just as you
abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all
earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious
work also. (Corinthians: abound, knowledge.)
NAS 2
Corinthians 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every
lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
(All)
NAS 2
Corinthians 11:6 But even if I am
unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in
knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things. (Paul: “if I am unskilled in
speech, yet I am not so in
knowledge”)
NAS Ephesians
3:19 and to know the love of
Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness
of God. (“to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge”)
NAS Philippians
3:8 More than that, I count all
things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but
rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, (Paul: “I count all things to be loss
in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord”)
NAS Colossians
2:3 in whom are hidden all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (All) (Re Christ)
NAS 1
Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, guard
what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the
opposing arguments of what is falsely called "knowledge "-- (Avoid,
worldly, empty chatter, false, knowledge.)
NAS 1 Peter
3:7 You husbands likewise, live
with your wives in an understanding
way, as with a weaker vessel, since she is a woman; and grant her honor as a
fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
(Understanding = gnosis.)
NAS 2 Peter
1:5 Now for this very reason
also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge;
(Relationship: diligence, faith, moral excellence, knowledge.)
6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness; (Relationship: knowledge,
self-control, perseverance, godliness.)
NAS 2 Peter
3:18 but grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (“grow in
the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”)