For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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πιστεύω
Vocabulary form:
πιστεύω
Definition:
I believe, trust
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
241
GK:
4409
Notes:
pisteuvw can take a direct object in either the dative or accusative. It is the cognate verb of the noun pivstiV and adjective pistovV.
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 26:27 | Do you believe (pisteueis | πιστεύεις | pres act ind 2 sg), King Agrippa, in the prophets? I know that you believe.” (pisteueis | πιστεύεις | pres act ind 2 sg) |
| Acts 27:25 | So be of good courage, men, for I have faith (pisteuō | πιστεύω | pres act ind 1 sg) in God that it will be so, just as it has been told me. |
| Romans 1:16 | For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (pisteuonti | πιστεύοντι | pres act ptcp dat sg masc), to the Jew first and also to the Greek. |
| Romans 3:2 | Much in every way. first of all, they were entrusted (episteuthēsan | ἐπιστεύθησαν | aor pass ind 3 pl) with the oracles of God. |
| Romans 3:22 | It is the righteousness of God available through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe (pisteuontas | πιστεύοντας | pres act ptcp acc pl masc). (There is no distinction, |
| Romans 4:3 | For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed (episteusen | ἐπίστευσεν | aor act ind 3 sg) God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” |
| Romans 4:5 | But to the one who does not work, but entrusts (pisteuonti | πιστεύοντι | pres act ptcp dat sg masc) himself to the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. |
| Romans 4:11 | He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would be the father of all who believe (pisteuontōn | πιστευόντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) but have never been circumcised, that they too might have righteousness credited to them. |
| Romans 4:17 | As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” He is our father, in the presence of God in (episteusen | ἐπίστευσεν | aor act ind 3 sg) whom he (episteusen | ἐπίστευσεν | aor act ind 3 sg) believed (episteusen | ἐπίστευσεν | aor act ind 3 sg), the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being the things that do not exist. |
| Romans 4:18 | Hoping against hope, Abraham believed (episteusen | ἐπίστευσεν | aor act ind 3 sg) that he would become the father of many nations according to what had been spoken, “So will your descendants be.” |
| Romans 4:24 | but for our sake as well, to whom it will be credited, those who believe (pisteuousin | πιστεύουσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, |
| Romans 6:8 | Now if we have died with Christ, we believe (pisteuomen | πιστεύομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) that we will also live with him. |
| Romans 9:33 | as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that makes them stumble and a rock that trips them up; but the one who believes (pisteuōn | πιστεύων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) in him will not be put to shame.” |
| Romans 10:4 | For Christ is the end of the law, so now there is righteousness for everyone who believes (pisteuonti | πιστεύοντι | pres act ptcp dat sg masc). |
| Romans 10:9 | that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe (pisteusēs | πιστεύσῃς | aor act subj 2 sg) in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. |
| Romans 10:10 | For with the heart a person believes (pisteuetai | πιστεύεται | pres pass ind 3 sg) and is made righteous, and with the mouth he confesses and is saved. |
| Romans 10:11 | For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes (pisteuōn | πιστεύων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) in him will not be put to shame.” |
| Romans 10:14 | But how are they to call on one in whom they (episteusan | ἐπίστευσαν | aor act ind 3 pl) have (episteusan | ἐπίστευσαν | aor act ind 3 pl) not believed (episteusan | ἐπίστευσαν | aor act ind 3 pl)? And how are they to believe (pisteusōsin | πιστεύσωσιν | aor act subj 3 pl) in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear unless someone proclaims the message? |
| Romans 10:16 | However, not all of them have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed (episteusen | ἐπίστευσεν | aor act ind 3 sg) our message?” |
| Romans 13:11 | And live this way because you are aware of the time, that the hour has come for us to wake from sleep, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed (episteusamen | ἐπιστεύσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl). |
| Romans 14:2 | One person believes (pisteuei | πιστεύει | pres act ind 3 sg) there is nothing he may not eat, while the weak brother eats only vegetables. |
| Romans 15:13 | Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing (pisteuein | πιστεύειν | pres act inf ), so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1 Corinthians 1:21 | For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what we preach to save those who believe (pisteuontas | πιστεύοντας | pres act ptcp acc pl masc). |
| 1 Corinthians 3:5 | What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe (episteusate | ἐπιστεύσατε | aor act ind 2 pl), even as the Lord assigned to each of us. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:17 | For if I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I (pepisteumai | πεπίστευμαι | perf pass ind 1 sg) have (pepisteumai | πεπίστευμαι | perf pass ind 1 sg) been (pepisteumai | πεπίστευμαι | perf pass ind 1 sg) entrusted (pepisteumai | πεπίστευμαι | perf pass ind 1 sg) with (pepisteumai | πεπίστευμαι | perf pass ind 1 sg) a charge. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:18 | For in the first place, I hear that when you gather as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I (pisteuō | πιστεύω | pres act ind 1 sg) believe (pisteuō | πιστεύω | pres act ind 1 sg) it, |
| 1 Corinthians 13:7 | Love bears all things, believes (pisteuei | πιστεύει | pres act ind 3 sg) all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:22 | So then tongues are for a sign, not for believers (pisteuousin | πιστεύουσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers (pisteuousin | πιστεύουσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc). |
| 1 Corinthians 15:2 | through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you — unless you (episteusate | ἐπιστεύσατε | aor act ind 2 pl) have (episteusate | ἐπιστεύσατε | aor act ind 2 pl) believed (episteusate | ἐπιστεύσατε | aor act ind 2 pl) in vain. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:11 | Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you came to believe (episteusate | ἐπιστεύσατε | aor act ind 2 pl). |
| 2 Corinthians 4:13 | But since we have the same spirit of faith as that which stands written, “I believed (episteusa | ἐπίστευσα | aor act ind 1 sg); therefore I spoke,” we too believe (pisteuomen | πιστεύομεν | pres act ind 1 pl), and thus we speak, |
| Galatians 2:7 | But on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted (pepisteumai | πεπίστευμαι | perf pass ind 1 sg) with the gospel for the uncircumcised just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised |
| Galatians 2:16 | yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have (episteusamen | ἐπιστεύσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl) come (episteusamen | ἐπιστεύσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl) to (episteusamen | ἐπιστεύσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl) believe (episteusamen | ἐπιστεύσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl) in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, since no one will be justified by the works of the law. |
| Galatians 3:6 | Consider Abraham: “He believed (episteusen | ἐπίστευσεν | aor act ind 3 sg) God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” |
| Galatians 3:22 | But the Scripture confined everything under sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe (pisteuousin | πιστεύουσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc). |
| Ephesians 1:13 | You also are in him, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation; in him also, when you believed (pisteusantes | πιστεύσαντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc), you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit, |
| Ephesians 1:19 | and what is the incomparable greatness of his power available for us who believe (pisteuontas | πιστεύοντας | pres act ptcp acc pl masc), according to the exercise of his mighty strength, |
| Philippians 1:29 | For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to (pisteuein | πιστεύειν | pres act inf ) believe (pisteuein | πιστεύειν | pres act inf ) in him but also to suffer for him, |
| 1 Thessalonians 1:7 | So you became an example for all the believers (pisteuousin | πιστεύουσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) in Macedonia and in Achaia. |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:4 | but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted (pisteuthēnai | πιστευθῆναι | aor pass inf ) with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but God who tests our hearts. |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:10 | You are witnesses, and so is God, how devout, upright, and blameless was our conduct toward you believers (pisteuousin | πιστεύουσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) — |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:13 | And for this reason we also constantly thank God, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it truly is, the word of God, which even now is doing its work in you who believe (pisteuousin | πιστεύουσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc). |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:14 | For if we believe (pisteuomen | πιστεύομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) that Jesus died and rose again, so also do we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. |
| 2 Thessalonians 1:10 | on that day when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at by all who have believed (pisteusasin | πιστεύσασιν | aor act ptcp dat pl masc), because our testimony to you was believed (episteuthē | ἐπιστεύθη | aor pass ind 3 sg). |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:11 | For this reason God will send them an active delusion leading them to believe (pisteusai | πιστεῦσαι | aor act inf ) the lie, |
| 2 Thessalonians 2:12 | that they all may be condemned who did (pisteusantes | πιστεύσαντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) not believe (pisteusantes | πιστεύσαντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness. |
| 1 Timothy 1:11 | in conformity to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I was entrusted (episteuthēn | ἐπιστεύθην | aor pass ind 1 sg). |
| 1 Timothy 1:16 | But for this reason I was shown mercy: so that in me as foremost Christ Jesus might display his complete patience as an illustration for those who were to believe (pisteuein | πιστεύειν | pres act inf ) in him for eternal life. |
| 1 Timothy 3:16 | And undeniably great is the mystery of godliness, who was revealed in flesh, was vindicated in spirit, appeared to angels; was preached among the nations, was believed (episteuthē | ἐπιστεύθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) in the world, was taken up in glory. |
| 2 Timothy 1:12 | for which reason even I am suffering these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have trusted (pepisteuka | πεπίστευκα | perf act ind 1 sg) and I am fully convinced that he is able to guard my deposit until that day. |
Mnemonics
mnemonic
pisteuo as in 'psstt I believe you'