Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

δέ

Vocabulary form: 
dev
Definition: 

but, and

Frequency: 
2,792
GK: 
1254
Mnemonic Singing: 

Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
hat saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind but now I see.

Notes: 

dev is a postpositive. This means that it cannot be the first word in a sentence or clause, even though in your translation it is the first word. It usually is the second word and sometimes the third, e.g., oJ de; ei\pon ....

Mnemonics

The debut of the Andes mountain climber!

I watched | de | movie, | but | I didn't read | de | book.

Biblical Concordance

1 Corinthians 8:9 But (de | δέ | conj) take care that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:12 So when you sin against your brothers and wound their conscience, being weak, you are sinning against Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:15 But (de | δέ | conj) I have not used any of these rights. And (de | δέ | conj) I am not writing this so that something will be done for me; for it would be better for me rather to die — no one shall take away my ground for boasting!
1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward. But (de | δέ | conj) if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a charge.
1 Corinthians 9:23 I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its benefits.
1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that all who run in the stadium compete but (de | δέ | conj) only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.
1 Corinthians 9:25 Everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but (de | δέ | conj) we for an imperishable one.
1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they used to drink from the spiritual rock that followed them, and (de | δέ | conj) that rock was Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:6 Now (de | δέ | conj) these things took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things, even as they did.
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now (de | δέ | conj) these events happened to them as examples, but (de | δέ | conj) were written down as warnings for us, on whom the end of the ages has come.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No trial has overtaken you that is not distinctively human; and (de | δέ | conj) God is faithful; he will not let you be tested beyond what you can bear, but with the trial will also provide the way through, so that you will be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:20 No, what I am implying is that the things that people sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and (de | δέ | conj) I do not want you to be sharers with demons.
1 Corinthians 10:28 However (de | δέ | conj), if someone should say to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience —
1 Corinthians 10:29 I mean the conscience of the other person, not your own. Why then should my liberty be determined by the conscience of another?
1 Corinthians 11:2 I commend you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions just as I passed them on to you.
1 Corinthians 11:3 But (de | δέ | conj) I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and (de | δέ | conj) the head of a wife is her husband, and (de | δέ | conj) the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 11:5 but (de | δέ | conj) any wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same as a woman who has her head shaved.
1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut her hair short. But (de | δέ | conj) 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 a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God, but (de | δέ | conj) woman is the glory of man.
1 Corinthians 11:12 for just as the woman came from man, so also the man now comes through woman. And (de | δέ | conj) all things come from God.
1 Corinthians 11:15 but (de | δέ | conj) if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her long hair is given to her for a covering.
1 Corinthians 11:16 If anyone is inclined to be quarrelsome, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 11:17 But (de | δέ | conj) in giving the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
1 Corinthians 11:21 For when it comes time to eat, each one goes ahead with his own supper; and one remains hungry while (de | δέ | particle) another becomes drunk.
1 Corinthians 11:28 A person should examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
1 Corinthians 11:31 But (de | δέ | conj) if we had been examining ourselves, we would not come under judgment.
1 Corinthians 11:32 But (de | δέ | conj) when we are judged by the Lord, we are being corrected by discipline, so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
1 Corinthians 11:34 If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.
1 Corinthians 12:1 Now (de | δέ | conj) concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
1 Corinthians 12:4 Now (de | δέ | conj) there are different kinds of gifts, but (de | δέ | conj) the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:6 and there are different accomplishments, but (de | δέ | conj) it is the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
1 Corinthians 12:7 But (de | δέ | conj) the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the good of all.
1 Corinthians 12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:10 to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and (de | δέ | particle) to another interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:11 But (de | δέ | conj) it is the one and same Spirit, distributing to each as he determines, who produces all these things.
1 Corinthians 12:12 For just as the physical body is one yet has many members, and (de | δέ | conj) all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is the body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:18 But (de | δέ | conj) as it is, God arranged the members in the body, every one of them, just as he chose.
1 Corinthians 12:19 If they were all a single member, where would the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:20 But (de | δέ | conj) as it is, there are many members, but (de | δέ | conj) one body.
1 Corinthians 12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
1 Corinthians 12:24 whereas (de | δέ | conj) our presentable members have no such need. Instead, God has so arranged the body, giving greater honor to the member that lacked it,
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now (de | δέ | conj) you are Christ’s body and each of you is a member of it.
1 Corinthians 12:31 Set your hearts then (de | δέ | conj) on the higher gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.
1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but (de | δέ | conj) do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but (de | δέ | conj) do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give away everything I own, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but (de | δέ | conj) do not have love, it benefits me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:6 it takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but (de | δέ | conj) rejoices in the truth.
1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never comes to an end. But (de | δέ | conj) if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
1 Corinthians 13:10 but (de | δέ | conj) when what is complete comes, the partial will be set aside.

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