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
| 1 Corinthians 2:8 | None of the rulers of this age understood it, for (gar | γάρ | conj) if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. |
| 1 Corinthians 2:10 | But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit; for (gar | γάρ | conj) the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God. |
| 1 Corinthians 2:11 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) who can know the thoughts of a man except the man’s own spirit that is in him? In the same way, no one can understand the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. |
| 1 Corinthians 2:14 | The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for (gar | γάρ | conj) they are foolishness to him; he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned. |
| 1 Corinthians 2:16 | For (gar | γάρ | conj), “Who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him?” But we have the mind of Christ. |
| 1 Corinthians 3:2 | I gave you milk, not solid food, for (gar | γάρ | conj) you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, |
| 1 Corinthians 3:3 | for (gar | γάρ | conj) you are still of the flesh. For (gar | γάρ | conj) while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving like mere men? |
| 1 Corinthians 3:4 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not like everyone else? |
| 1 Corinthians 3:9 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) we are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building. |
| 1 Corinthians 3:11 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) no one is able to lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. |
| 1 Corinthians 3:13 | the work of each person will become evident, for (gar | γάρ | conj) the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what sort of work each has done. |
| 1 Corinthians 3:17 | If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For (gar | γάρ | conj) God’s temple is holy, and that is what you are. |
| 1 Corinthians 3:19 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For (gar | γάρ | conj) it is written, “He traps the wise with their own craftiness.” |
| 1 Corinthians 3:21 | So then, let no one boast with respect to men. For (gar | γάρ | conj) all things are yours, |
| 1 Corinthians 4:4 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I am not aware of anything against myself, yet not because of this am I acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. |
| 1 Corinthians 4:7 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) who sees anything superior in you? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? |
| 1 Corinthians 4:9 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) it seems to me that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. |
| 1 Corinthians 4:15 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) though you have innumerable guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because (gar | γάρ | conj) I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. |
| 1 Corinthians 4:20 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. |
| 1 Corinthians 5:3 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit; and I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as though I were present. |
| 1 Corinthians 5:7 | Get rid of the old leaven so that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you really are unleavened. For (gar | γάρ | conj) Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. |
| 1 Corinthians 5:12 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside the church that you are to judge? |
| 1 Corinthians 6:16 | Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For (gar | γάρ | conj) it says, “The two will become one flesh.” |
| 1 Corinthians 6:20 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God with your body. |
| 1 Corinthians 7:9 | But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry; for (gar | γάρ | conj) it is better to marry than to burn with sexual passion. |
| 1 Corinthians 7:14 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through union with her husband. Otherwise your children would be defiled, but as it is, they are holy. |
| 1 Corinthians 7:16 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? |
| 1 Corinthians 7:22 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the one who was called by the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise, the one who was called as a free person is a slave of Christ. |
| 1 Corinthians 7:31 | and those who use the world as though they were not absorbed in it. For (gar | γάρ | conj) the form of this world is passing away. |
| 1 Corinthians 8:5 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), |
| 1 Corinthians 8:10 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) if someone should see you who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of the one who is weak be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols? |
| 1 Corinthians 8:11 | And (gar | γάρ | conj) so (gar | γάρ | conj) the one who is weak, the brother for whom Christ died, will be destroyed by your knowledge. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:2 | If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for (gar | γάρ | conj) you are the proof of my apostleship in the Lord. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:9 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) in the Law of Moses it is written, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” It is not for oxen that God is concerned, is it? |
| 1 Corinthians 9:10 | Or does he not speak entirely for our sake. To (gar | γάρ | conj) be (gar | γάρ | conj) sure (gar | γάρ | conj), it was written for our sake, because the one plowing should plow in hope and the one threshing thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:15 | But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this so that something will be done for me; for (gar | γάρ | conj) it would be better for me rather to die — no one shall take away my ground for boasting! |
| 1 Corinthians 9:16 | If I preach the gospel, I do not have a ground for boasting, for (gar | γάρ | conj) I am compelled to do so. Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! |
| 1 Corinthians 9:17 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) if I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a charge. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:19 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, so that I might win as many as possible. |
| 1 Corinthians 10:1 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, |
| 1 Corinthians 10:4 | and all drank the same spiritual drink; for (gar | γάρ | conj) they used to drink from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. |
| 1 Corinthians 10:5 | But with most of them God was not pleased, for (gar | γάρ | conj) their corpses were scattered over the desert. |
| 1 Corinthians 10:17 | Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, for (gar | γάρ | conj) we all partake of the one loaf. |
| 1 Corinthians 10:26 | for (gar | γάρ | conj) the earth and its fullness belong to the Lord. |
| 1 Corinthians 10:29 | I mean the conscience of the other person, not your own. Why then (gar | γάρ | conj) should my liberty be determined by the conscience of another? |
| 1 Corinthians 11:5 | but any wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for (gar | γάρ | conj) it is one and the same as a woman who has her head shaved. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:6 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut her hair short. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut short or have her head shaved, she should cover her head. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:7 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:8 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) man did not come from woman, but woman from man. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:9 | Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. |
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