For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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περί
Vocabulary form:
περί
Definition:
gen: concerning
acc: around
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
333
GK:
4309
Cognates:
The perimeter (perivmetroV) is the boundary around an object or area.
Mnemonics:
Gen, I need to speak to you about Perry.
He's been accusing people all around town.
Mnemonic Singing:
For the love which from our birth,
over and around us lies
Notes:
The final iota elides only when the following word begins with an iota.
Biblical Concordance
| 2 Thessalonians 1:3 | We ought always to thank God for (peri | περί | prep-gen) you, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you for one another is increasing, |
| 2 Thessalonians 1:11 | With this in view we pray for (peri | περί | prep-gen) you constantly, that our God will count you worthy of his calling, and by his power bring to fulfillment every good resolve and work of faith, |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:13 | But we ought always to thank God for (peri | περί | prep-gen) you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you as first fruits for salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth. |
| 2 Thessalonians 3:1 | Finally, brothers, pray for (peri | περί | prep-gen) us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, as in fact it was among you. |
| 1 Timothy 1:7 | wishing to be teachers of the law even though they do not understand either what they are saying or concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) what things they are so dogmatically asserting. |
| 1 Timothy 1:19 | holding on to faith and a good conscience. By rejecting their faith and good conscience, some have shipwrecked the faith, |
| 1 Timothy 6:4 | he is puffed up with conceit, understanding nothing, but has a sickly craving for (peri | περί | prep-acc) speculations and fights about words out of which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions, |
| 1 Timothy 6:21 | for by professing it, some have swerved from (peri | περί | prep-acc) the faith. Grace be with you. |
| 2 Timothy 1:3 | I continually thank God, whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clean conscience, as unceasingly I remember you in my prayers night and day, |
| 2 Timothy 2:18 | who have swerved from (peri | περί | prep-acc) the truth, saying the resurrection has already occurred, and they are upsetting the faith of some. |
| 2 Timothy 3:8 | But just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men are opposing the truth, men who have been corrupted in the mind, worthless concerning (peri | περί | prep-acc) the faith. |
| Titus 2:7 | in (peri | περί | prep-acc) all things, showing yourself to be an example of good works, pure and dignified in your teaching, |
| Titus 2:8 | beyond reproach in your healthy instruction, so that the opponent may be put to shame because he has nothing evil to say against (peri | περί | prep-gen) us. |
| Titus 3:8 | Trustworthy is the saying, and I want you to insist emphatically on (peri | περί | prep-gen) these things so that those who have believed in God might be intent on devoting themselves to good works. These are good and profitable for people. |
| Philemon 1:10 | I appeal to you for (peri | περί | prep-gen) my child, Onesimus, whose father I became while in prison. |
| Hebrews 2:5 | Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, about (peri | περί | prep-gen) which we are speaking. |
| Hebrews 4:4 | For somewhere he has spoken of (peri | περί | prep-gen) the seventh day in this manner: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” |
| Hebrews 4:8 | For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of (peri | περί | prep-gen) another time after that. |
| Hebrews 5:3 | That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifice for (peri | περί | prep-gen) his own sins, just as he does for (peri | περί | prep-gen) the sins of the people. |
| Hebrews 5:11 | On (peri | περί | prep-gen) this subject we have much to say and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in understanding. |
| Hebrews 6:9 | But we are convinced of better things in (peri | περί | prep-gen) your case (peri | περί | prep-gen), beloved — things that accompany salvation — even though we speak as we do. |
| Hebrews 7:14 | For it is perfectly clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about (peri | περί | prep-gen) priests. |
| Hebrews 9:5 | Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness. Of (peri | περί | prep-gen) these things we cannot now speak in detail. |
| Hebrews 10:6 | You did not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings (peri | περί | prep-gen). |
| Hebrews 10:7 | Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come — in the scroll of a book it is written about (peri | περί | prep-gen) me — to do your will, O God.’” |
| Hebrews 10:8 | After he said what I just quoted, “You did not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings (peri | περί | prep-gen) (namely those offered according to the law), |
| Hebrews 10:18 | Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for (peri | περί | prep-gen) sin. |
| Hebrews 10:26 | For if we deliberately persist in sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for (peri | περί | prep-gen) sins, |
| Hebrews 11:7 | By faith Noah, having been warned by God concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) events as yet unseen, took heed and built an ark for the safety of his household. By this act of faith he condemned humanity and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. |
| Hebrews 11:20 | By faith Isaac invoked blessings on Jacob and Esau, even regarding (peri | περί | prep-gen) things to come. |
| Hebrews 11:22 | By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, spoke about (peri | περί | prep-gen) the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions regarding (peri | περί | prep-gen) the burial of his bones. |
| Hebrews 11:32 | And what more shall I say? For time would fail me if I told about (peri | περί | prep-gen) Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, about both David and Samuel and the prophets, |
| Hebrews 11:40 | for God had provided something better with (peri | περί | prep-gen) us in (peri | περί | prep-gen) mind (peri | περί | prep-gen), so that they should not reach their goal apart from us. |
| Hebrews 13:11 | For while the blood of those animals whose blood is brought into the Most Holy Place by the high priest as a sacrifice for (peri | περί | prep-gen) sin, their bodies are burned outside the camp. |
| Hebrews 13:18 | Continue to pray for (peri | περί | prep-gen) us, for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in every way. |
| 1 Peter 1:10 | Concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of (peri | περί | prep-gen) the grace that would come to you investigated diligently and examined with care, |
| 1 Peter 3:15 | but in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord, being ready at all times to make a defense to all who ask you for a word concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) the hope that is in you. |
| 1 Peter 3:18 | Because Christ also suffered once for (peri | περί | prep-gen) our sins, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, |
| 1 Peter 5:7 | casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares about (peri | περί | prep-gen) you. |
| 2 Peter 1:12 | Therefore I intend to keep on reminding you of (peri | περί | prep-gen) these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth that you now have. |
| 2 Peter 3:16 | as he does in all his letters, speaking in them of (peri | περί | prep-gen) these matters, in which are some things hard to understand, things that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures. |
| 1 John 1:1 | That which has existed from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and our hands have touched, concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) the word of life — |
| 1 John 2:2 | He is the propitiation for (peri | περί | prep-gen) our sins, and not for (peri | περί | prep-gen) ours only, but also for (peri | περί | prep-gen) those of the entire world. |
| 1 John 2:26 | I have written these things to you concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) those who are trying to deceive you. |
| 1 John 2:27 | But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about (peri | περί | prep-gen) all things, and is true and not a lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him. |
| 1 John 4:10 | In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiation for (peri | περί | prep-gen) our sins. |
| 1 John 5:9 | If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) his Son. |
| 1 John 5:10 | The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning (peri | περί | prep-gen) his Son. |
| 1 John 5:16 | If someone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he should ask and God will give him life — to those whose sins do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that he should pray about (peri | περί | prep-gen) that. |
| 3 John 1:2 | Dear friend, I pray that in (peri | περί | prep-gen) every way you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul is prospering. |
Mnemonics
mnemonic
peri as in 'these parameters are concerning'