For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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γάρ
Vocabulary form:
gavr
Definition:
for; then
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
1,041
GK:
1142
Mnemonic Singing:
For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies
Verse:
“I am not ashamed of the gospel … γάρ in it the righteousness of God is revealed.” (Rom 1:16,17)
“Why γάρ should my liberty be determined by the conscience of another?” (1 Cor 10:29)
Notes:
Postpositive
Biblical Concordance
| Romans 11:1 | So I ask, has God repudiated his people? By no means! For (gar | γάρ | conj) I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. |
| Romans 11:15 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) if their rejection leads to the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? |
| Romans 11:21 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you either. |
| Romans 11:23 | And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for (gar | γάρ | conj) God is able to graft them in again. |
| Romans 11:24 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree? |
| Romans 11:25 | I do not want you to be uninformed, my brothers, of this mystery — so that you may not be wise in your own conceits — that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. |
| Romans 11:29 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. |
| Romans 11:30 | just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, |
| Romans 11:32 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) God has consigned all to disobedience so that he may show mercy to all. |
| Romans 11:34 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? |
| Romans 12:3 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) by the grace given to me I say to every one among you that he should not think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think with sober judgment, as God has assigned to each a measure of faith. |
| Romans 12:4 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) as in our one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, |
| Romans 12:19 | Never avenge yourselves, dear friends, but leave room for the wrath of God, for (gar | γάρ | conj) it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” |
| Romans 12:20 | To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for (gar | γάρ | conj) by doing this you will heap burning coals on his head.” |
| Romans 13:1 | Every person must be subject to the governing authorities because (gar | γάρ | conj) there is no authority except by God’s appointment, and those that presently exist have been instituted by God. |
| Romans 13:3 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) rulers are not a source of fear for those who do good, but for those who do wrong. Would you have no fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will receive his approval |
| Romans 13:4 | for (gar | γάρ | conj) he is a servant of God for your good. But if you do what is wrong, be afraid; for (gar | γάρ | conj) he does not bear the sword in vain. he is a servant of God, an avenger to carry out wrath on the one who does wrong. |
| Romans 13:6 | this is also why you pay taxes, for (gar | γάρ | conj) authorities are servants of God, devoted to this very thing. |
| Romans 13:8 | Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for (gar | γάρ | conj) the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. |
| Romans 13:9 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” (and any other commandment there may be) are summed up in this “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” |
| 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 (gar | γάρ | conj) our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. |
| Romans 14:3 | The one who eats everything must not hold in contempt the one who does not and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats, for (gar | γάρ | conj) God has accepted him. |
| Romans 14:4 | Who are you to pass judgment on someone else’s servant? It is before his own master that he will stand or fall. And he will stand, for (gar | γάρ | conj) the Lord is able to make him stand. |
| Romans 14:5 | one person regards one day more sacred than another, while another person regards all days the same. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. |
| Romans 14:6 | The one who observes the day observes it for the Lord. And the one who eats, eats for the Lord, because (gar | γάρ | conj) he gives thanks to God; and the one who abstains from eating, abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God. |
| Romans 14:7 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) none of us lives for himself, and none dies for himself. |
| Romans 14:8 | if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to the Lord. |
| Romans 14:9 | the reason why Christ died and rose to life again was that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. |
| Romans 14:10 | Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or again, why do you hold your brother in contempt? For (gar | γάρ | conj) we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. |
| Romans 14:11 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.” |
| Romans 14:15 | if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by what you eat that brother for whom Christ died. |
| Romans 14:17 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. |
| Romans 14:18 | whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men. |
| Romans 15:3 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) Christ did not please himself; but as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.” |
| Romans 15:4 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) whatever was written at an earlier time was written for our instruction, that through endurance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. |
| Romans 15:8 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, |
| Romans 15:18 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in bringing the Gentiles to obedience, by word and deed, |
| Romans 15:24 | When I do go to Spain, I hope to see you as I pass through and be helped on my way there by you, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. |
| Romans 15:26 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution to the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. |
| Romans 15:27 | They were pleased to do so, in fact, they are obligated to them; for (gar | γάρ | conj) if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material things. |
| Romans 16:2 | so that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and give her any help she may need from you; for (gar | γάρ | conj) she has been of great assistance to many, including myself. |
| Romans 16:18 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the guileless. |
| Romans 16:19 | Your obedience is known to all and thus I am rejoicing over you. But I want you to be wise as to what is good, and innocent as to what is evil. |
| 1 Corinthians 1:11 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) it has been reported to me by members of Chloe’s household that there are quarrels among you, my brothers. |
| 1 Corinthians 1:17 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be rendered ineffective. |
| 1 Corinthians 1:18 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. |
| 1 Corinthians 1:19 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the shrewdness of the intelligent I will thwart.” |
| 1 Corinthians 1:21 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) 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. |
| 1 Corinthians 1:26 | Consider your calling, brothers: according to worldly standards, not many of you were wise, not many were influential, not many were of noble birth. |
| 1 Corinthians 2:2 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I had decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. |
Mnemonics
Suggested Mnemonic Device
Gar "For"man is the General Manager of the Chicago Bulls.
Mnemonic for "gar"
"Please buy a vase FOR the GARdenia!
gar mnemonic
FOR if you GUARd the GARden, THEN you will reap much fruit.
Darfur - gar for
Darfur - gar for