Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

κύριος

Vocabulary form: 
kuvrioV, -ou, oJ
Definition: 

Lord; lord, master, sir

Frequency: 
717
GK: 
3261
Root: 
kurio
Cognates: 

Kurie eleison is a petitionary prayer that is usedby some Eastern and Roman churches.

Mnemonics: 

I am curious! Who is lord and master of your life?

Mnemonic Singing: 

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

Verse: 

“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is κύριος,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)

“κύριος, you have no bucket and the well is deep.” (John 4:11)

Mnemonics

Also used in Anglican churches

Biblical Concordance

1 Corinthians 7:34 and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:35 I am saying this for your benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but to promote propriety and undivided devotion to the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc).
1 Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound for such a time as her husband is alive. But if her husband should die, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc).
1 Corinthians 8:5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”) (kyrioi | κύριοι | nom pl masc),
1 Corinthians 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc), Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc)? Are you not the result of my labor in the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc)?
1 Corinthians 9:2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the proof of my apostleship in the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc).
1 Corinthians 9:5 Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, as also the other apostles, the Lord’s (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) brothers, and Cephas do?
1 Corinthians 9:14 In the same way, the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) gave instructions to those who proclaim the gospel that they should get their living from the gospel.
1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) and the table of demons.
1 Corinthians 10:22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc) to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians 10:26 for the earth and its fullness belong to the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc).
1 Corinthians 11:11 Nevertheless, in the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc) woman is not independent of man nor is man independent of woman;
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) that which I also passed on to you: that the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) death until he comes.
1 Corinthians 11:27 Whoever, therefore, eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc).
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), we are being corrected by discipline, so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
1 Corinthians 12:3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) except by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:5 and there are different kinds of ministries, but the same Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc);
1 Corinthians 14:21 In the Law it is written, “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me, says the Lord.” (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc)
1 Corinthians 14:37 If anyone considers himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc).
1 Corinthians 15:31 Every day I am in danger of dying! I swear by my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc).
1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus Christ!
1 Corinthians 15:58 So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), since you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc).
1 Corinthians 16:7 For I do not want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) permits.
1 Corinthians 16:10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is doing the Lord’s (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) work, just as I am.
1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches of Asia send their greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca, along with the church that meets in their house, send their special greetings in the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc).
1 Corinthians 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc), let him be accursed. Our Lord has come!
1 Corinthians 16:23 May the grace of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus be with you.
2 Corinthians 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,
2 Corinthians 1:14 just as also you have understood us partially, that we are your source of pride, as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:12 When I came to Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ, even though a door had been opened for me by the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc),
2 Corinthians 3:16 yet whenever one turns to the Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc), the veil is removed.
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, with unveiled faces, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, just as from the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc), and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.
2 Corinthians 4:14 knowing that the one who raised the Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc) Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us, together with you, before him.
2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc),
2 Corinthians 5:8 Thus we are confident and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord (kyrion | κύριον | acc sg masc).
2 Corinthians 5:11 Therefore since we know the fear of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc), we attempt to persuade others; we stand open to God, and, I trust, also to your conscience.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore, “come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc), and “touch no unclean thing; then I will receive you,
2 Corinthians 6:18 and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me,” says the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) Almighty.
2 Corinthians 8:5 And they did this, not simply as we had hoped, but first they gave themselves to the Lord (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc) and then to us, by the will of God.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:19 And not only this, but he has been appointed by the churches to be our traveling companion as we carry out this act of kindness for the glory of the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) himself, and to show our readiness.
2 Corinthians 8:21 for we are concerned to do what is right, not only before the Lord (kyriou | κυρίου | gen sg masc) but also before men.
2 Corinthians 10:8 For even if I boast about it, and more than that, about the authority which the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.
2 Corinthians 10:17 But rather, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” (kyriō | κυρίῳ | dat sg masc)
2 Corinthians 10:18 For it is not the one who recommends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord (kyrios | κύριος | nom sg masc) recommends.

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