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 6:7 | for (gar | γάρ | conj) the one who has died has been set free from sin. |
| Romans 6:10 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. |
| Romans 6:14 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) sin will not have mastery over you, since (gar | γάρ | conj) you are not under law but under grace. |
| Romans 6:19 | (I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations.) For (gar | γάρ | conj) just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification. |
| Romans 6:20 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. |
| Romans 6:21 | Therefore what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For (gar | γάρ | conj) the end of those things is death. |
| Romans 6:23 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
| Romans 7:1 | Or do you not know, brethren (for (gar | γάρ | conj) I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is binding on a person only so long as he lives? |
| Romans 7:2 | Thus (gar | γάρ | conj) a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. |
| Romans 7:5 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death. |
| Romans 7:7 | What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law; that (gar | γάρ | conj) is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law said, “You shall not covet.” |
| Romans 7:8 | But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. (For (gar | γάρ | conj) apart from the law, sin is dead.) |
| Romans 7:11 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. |
| Romans 7:14 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) we know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. |
| Romans 7:15 | I do not understand my own actions; for (gar | γάρ | conj) I am not doing what I want to do, but I am doing what I hate. |
| Romans 7:18 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for (gar | γάρ | conj) I have the desire to do what is right, but I am unable to do it. |
| Romans 7:19 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. |
| Romans 7:22 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I joyfully agree with the law of God in the inner man, |
| Romans 8:2 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. |
| Romans 8:3 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, condemned sin in the flesh, |
| Romans 8:5 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) those who live according to the flesh have set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have set their minds on the things of the Spirit. |
| Romans 8:6 | To set the mind on the flesh leads to death, but to set the mind on the Spirit brings life and peace, |
| Romans 8:7 | because the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to the law of God; in (gar | γάρ | conj) fact (gar | γάρ | conj), it cannot. |
| Romans 8:13 | for (gar | γάρ | conj) if you live according to the flesh, you will certainly die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. |
| Romans 8:14 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) it is those who are led by the Spirit of God who are the sons of God. |
| Romans 8:15 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading back to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption. By him we cry out, “Abba! Father!” |
| Romans 8:18 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us. |
| Romans 8:19 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. |
| Romans 8:20 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own choosing, but because of him who subjected it, in hope |
| Romans 8:22 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) we know that the entire creation has been groaning and suffering together up to the present hour. |
| Romans 8:24 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for (gar | γάρ | conj) who hopes for what he sees? |
| Romans 8:26 | In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for (gar | γάρ | conj) we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. |
| Romans 8:38 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, |
| Romans 9:3 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I could wish that I myself were accursed, cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, |
| Romans 9:6 | But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For (gar | γάρ | conj) not all who are descended from Israel are actually Israel; |
| Romans 9:9 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return and Sarah will have a son.” |
| Romans 9:11 | even before they were born or had done anything either good or bad so that God’s purpose according to election might stand, |
| Romans 9:15 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” |
| Romans 9:17 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might display my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” |
| Romans 9:19 | So you will say to me, “Why then does he still find fault? For (gar | γάρ | conj) who can resist his will?” |
| Romans 9:28 | for (gar | γάρ | conj) the Lord will carry out his sentence on the earth, thoroughly and without delay.” |
| Romans 10:2 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. |
| Romans 10:3 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. |
| Romans 10:4 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) Christ is the end of the law, so now there is righteousness for everyone who believes. |
| Romans 10:5 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) Moses writes regarding the righteousness that is based on the law, “The person committed to these things must live by them.” |
| Romans 10:10 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) with the heart a person believes and is made righteous, and with the mouth he confesses and is saved. |
| Romans 10:11 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” |
| Romans 10:12 | For (gar | γάρ | conj) there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek; for (gar | γάρ | conj) the same Lord is Lord of all, giving generously to all who call on him; |
| Romans 10:13 | for (gar | γάρ | conj) “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” |
| Romans 10:16 | However, not all of them have obeyed the good news, for (gar | γάρ | conj) Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” |
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