Biblical Concept: Unbelief
Findings:
Unbelief thwarts miracles.
Wonder employs an imperfect tense which focuses on
the process of unbelief. Unbelievers have their
reasons.
Unbelief: God suffers much rejection.
Wonder: Freewill and unbelief.
Positive volition overcomes unbelief.
Unbelief, hardness of heart, relationship.
Unbelief, God’s faithfulness, no relationship.
“Waver in unbelief” versus “strong in faith.”
“broken off for their unbelief” versus “stand by
your faith”
“if they do not continue in their unbelief”
Ignorance, unbelief, relationship.
Unbelievers can work hard on their ignorance: acted.
Spiritual things are actively
ignored.
Unbelief, God’s rest, antithesis.
Unbelief, disobedience, judgement relationship.
“what has a believer in common with an
unbeliever?”
“Worse than an unbeliever.”
Tongues for unbeliever evangelism.
“Do not be bound together with unbelievers”
“O unbelieving and perverted generation”
“O unbelieving generation”
Family help for unbelievers.
Unbeliever marriage desertion, no believer
bondage.
Unbelievers: under angelic spiritual attack.
Angels, unbelievers, gospel, Christ, blinding.
Defiled, unbelieving, mind, conscience relationship.
Unbelief, falling away from God, relationship.
Evil unbelieving heart, falling away, relationship.
Unbelief, second death, relationship.
Thomas unbelieving.
Family help for unbelievers.
Unbeliever marriage desertion, no believer bondage.
Unbelievers: under angelic spiritual attack.
Angels, unbelievers, gospel, Christ, blinding.
Defiled, unbelieving, mind, conscience
relationship.
Unbelief, falling away from God, relationship.
Evil unbelieving heart, falling away,
relationship.
Unbelief, second death, relationship.
Unbelief
NAS Matthew 13:58 And He did not do many miracles there because of
their unbelief. (Unbelief thwarts miracles.)
NAS Mark 6:6 And He wondered at their unbelief. And He was
going around the villages teaching. (Wonder employs an imperfect tense which
focuses on the process of unbelief. Unbelievers have their reasons.) (Unbelief: God suffers much rejection.) (Wonder: Freewill
and unbelief.) (Note 2 Corinthians 4:4 below.)
NAS Mark 9:24 Immediately the boy's father cried out and began saying, "I do believe; help
my unbelief." (Positive volition overcomes unbelief.)
NAS Mark 16:14 And afterward He appeared to the eleven
themselves as they were reclining at the
table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart,
because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.
(Unbelief, hardness of heart, relationship.)
NAS Romans 3:3 What then? If some did not believe, their
unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? (Unbelief, God’s
faithfulness, no relationship.)
NAS Romans 4:20 yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did
not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, (“Waver
in unbelief” versus “strong in faith.”)
NAS Romans 11:20 Quite right, they were broken off for their
unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; (“broken
off for their unbelief” versus “stand by your faith”)
23 And they also, if they
do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft
them in again. (“if they do not continue in their unbelief”)
NAS 1 Timothy 1:13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a
persecutor and a violent aggressor. And yet I was shown mercy, because I acted
ignorantly in unbelief; (All) (Compare 2 Corinthians 4:4 below.) (Ignorance,
unbelief, relationship.) (Unbelievers can work hard on their ignorance: acted.
Spiritual things are actively
ignored.)
NAS Hebrews 3:19 And so we
see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. (Context: Hebrews 3:16-19 16 For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not
all those who came out of Egypt led by
Moses? 17 And with whom was
He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell
in the wilderness? 18 And to
whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who were
disobedient? 19 And so we see that they were not able to
enter because of unbelief.)
(Unbelief, God’s rest, antithesis.) (Unbelief, disobedience, judgement
relationship.)
Unbeliever
NAS 1 Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any
brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let
him not send her away. (See 7:16) (Marriage evangelism.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 14:24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an
ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;
(Prophesy, unbeliever, convicted.) (Context: “1 Corinthians 14:23-25 23
If therefore the whole church should assemble together and all speak in
tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are
mad? 24 But if all prophesy,
and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is
called to account by all; 25 the secrets of his heart are disclosed;
and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is
certainly among you.”)
NAS 2 Corinthians 6:15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what
has a believer in common with an unbeliever? (“what has a believer in common
with an unbeliever?”)
NAS 1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and
especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse
than an unbeliever. (“Worse than an unbeliever.”)
Unbelievers
NAS Luke 12:46 the master of that slave will come on a day when
he does not expect him, and at an
hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with
the unbelievers.
NAS 1 Corinthians 6:6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that
before unbelievers? (Christians best stay out of court.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 10:27 If one of the unbelievers invites you, and you
wish to go, eat anything that is set before you, without asking questions for
conscience ' sake. (No Christian dietary laws.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 14:22 So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who
believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is
for a sign, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe. (Tongues for
unbeliever evangelism.)
23 If therefore the whole
church should assemble together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or
unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad? (Tongues for unbeliever
evangelism.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for
what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has
light with darkness? (“Do not be bound together with unbelievers”)
Unbelieving
NAS Matthew 17:17 And Jesus answered and said, "O unbelieving
and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up
with you? Bring him here to Me." (“O unbelieving and perverted
generation”)
NAS Mark 9:19 And He answered them and said, "O
unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up
with you? Bring him to Me!" (“O unbelieving generation”)
NAS Luke 9:41 And Jesus answered and said, "O unbelieving
and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you, and put up with you?
Bring your son here." (“O unbelieving and perverted generation”)
NAS John 20:27 Then He said to Thomas, "Reach here your
finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand, and put it into My side;
and be not unbelieving, but believing." (Thomas unbelieving.)
NAS 1 Corinthians 7:13 And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and
he consents to live with her, let her not send her husband away. (All) (See
7:16)
14 For the unbelieving
husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified
through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now
they are holy. (Family help for unbelievers.) (Marriage evangelism.)
15 Yet if the unbelieving
one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in
such cases, but God has called us to
peace. (Unbeliever marriage desertion, no believer bondage.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded
the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the gospel
of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (Unbelievers: under angelic
spiritual attack.) (Angels, unbelievers, gospel, Christ, blinding.)
NAS Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those
who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their
conscience are defiled. (Defiled, unbelieving, mind, conscience relationship.)
NAS Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any
one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, in falling away from the living God.
(Unbelief, falling away from God, relationship.) (Evil unbelieving heart,
falling away, relationship.)
NAS Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and
abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and
all liars, their part will be in the
lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
(Unbelief, second death, relationship.)