For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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μή
Vocabulary form:
mhv
Definition:
not, lest
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
1,042
GK:
3590
Mnemonics:
He may or may not!
Verse:
All do μή speak in tongues, do they? (1 Cor 12:29)
Notes:
Has the same basic meaning as ouj but is used in different situations that we will discuss later.
Biblical Concordance
| 1 Corinthians 10:33 | even as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not (mē | μή | particle) seeking my own advantage but that of the many, so that they may be saved. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:22 | Can it be that you do not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing (mē | μή | particle)? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? For this I will not commend you. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:29 | For the one who eats and drinks without (mē | μή | particle) discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:32 | But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being corrected by discipline, so that we will not (mē | μή | particle) 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 (mē | μή | particle) lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come. |
| 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,” except by the Holy Spirit. |
| 1 Corinthians 12:25 | so that there would be no (mē | μή | particle) division in the body, but that the members would have the same care for one another. |
| 1 Corinthians 12:29 | Not (mē | μή | particle) all are apostles, are (mē | μή | particle) they (mē | μή | particle)? Not (mē | μή | particle) all are prophets, are (mē | μή | particle) they (mē | μή | particle)? Not (mē | μή | particle) all are teachers, are (mē | μή | particle) they (mē | μή | particle)? Not (mē | μή | particle) all work miracles, do (mē | μή | particle) they (mē | μή | particle)? |
| 1 Corinthians 12:30 | Not (mē | μή | particle) all have gifts of healing, do (mē | μή | particle) they (mē | μή | particle)? Not (mē | μή | particle) all speak in tongues, do (mē | μή | particle) they (mē | μή | particle)? Not (mē | μή | particle) all are able to interpret, are (mē | μή | particle) they (mē | μή | particle)? |
| 1 Corinthians 13:1 | If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not (mē | μή | particle) 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 do not (mē | μή | particle) 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 do not (mē | μή | particle) have love, it benefits me nothing. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:5 | Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may receive edification. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:6 | But as it is, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I impart to you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? |
| 1 Corinthians 14:7 | It is the same with lifeless things that produce sound, whether flute or harp; if they do not (mē | μή | particle) make a difference between notes, how will what is being played on the flute or the harp be understood? |
| 1 Corinthians 14:9 | So it is with you; if you do not (mē | μή | particle) speak a clear message with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? You will be speaking into the air. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:11 | But if I do not (mē | μή | particle) grasp the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:20 | Brothers, do not (mē | μή | particle) be children in your thinking. Rather, in evil be infants but in your thinking be adults. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:28 | But if there is no (mē | μή | particle) one who can interpret, the speaker should remain silent in church and speak to himself and to God. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:39 | So, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not (mē | μή | particle) forbid speaking in tongues. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:2 | through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you — unless you have believed in vain. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:33 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” |
| 1 Corinthians 15:34 | Sober up as you ought, and stop (mē | μή | particle) sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:36 | You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. |
| 1 Corinthians 16:2 | On the first day of the week, each of you should put something aside as he may prosper and save it, so that when I come, collections will not (mē | μή | particle) have to be made. |
| 1 Corinthians 16:11 | So no (mē | μή | particle) one should treat him with contempt. Help him continue his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I am expecting him with the brothers. |
| 2 Corinthians 1:9 | Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should no longer (mē | μή | particle) trust in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead. |
| 2 Corinthians 2:1 | So I decided this within myself, not (mē | μή | particle) to come to you again with sorrow. |
| 2 Corinthians 2:2 | For if I cause you sorrow, then who is there to make me glad except the one made sorrowful by me? |
| 2 Corinthians 2:3 | And I wrote this very thing so that when I came, I would not (mē | μή | particle) have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all. |
| 2 Corinthians 2:5 | But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not for me, but in some measure — not (mē | μή | particle) to overstate the case — for all of you. |
| 2 Corinthians 2:7 | so that you should rather forgive and console him, lest (mē | μή | conj) he be swallowed up by excessive sorrow. |
| 2 Corinthians 2:11 | lest we be taken advantage of by Satan; for we are not unaware of his intentions. |
| 2 Corinthians 2:13 | I had no relief for my spirit, because I could not (mē | μή | particle) find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and went on to Macedonia. |
| 2 Corinthians 3:1 | Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? We do not (mē | μή | particle) need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do (mē | μή | particle) we (mē | μή | particle)? |
| 2 Corinthians 3:7 | Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, came with such glory that the Israelites were unable (mē | μή | particle) to gaze steadily into the face of Moses due to the glory of his face, fading as it was, |
| 2 Corinthians 3:13 | and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not (mē | μή | particle) gaze at the end of what was fading away. |
| 2 Corinthians 3:14 | But their minds were closed. For until the present day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. Since the veil is not (mē | μή | particle) removed, it is clear that only in Christ is it taken away. |
| 2 Corinthians 4:2 | But we have renounced shameful hidden deeds. We do not (mē | μή | particle) practice cunning, nor do we tamper with the word of God, but by the open declaration of truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. |
| 2 Corinthians 4:4 | in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they cannot (mē | μή | particle) see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. |
| 2 Corinthians 4:7 | But we have this treasure in clay pots, so that the surpassing power belongs to God and does not (mē | μή | particle) come from us. |
| 2 Corinthians 4:18 | as we look not (mē | μή | particle) on what can be seen, but on the unseen (mē | μή | particle); for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot (mē | μή | particle) be seen is eternal. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:12 | For we are not again recommending ourselves to you but giving you an occasion to boast on our behalf, so that you may be able to answer those who boast of what is seen and not (mē | μή | particle) of what is in the heart. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:19 | that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not (mē | μή | particle) counting their trespasses against them. And he has entrusted us with the message of reconciliation. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:21 | He made him who knew no (mē | μή | particle) sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. |
| 2 Corinthians 6:1 | Thus as coworkers with him, we urge you not (mē | μή | particle) to receive the grace of God in vain. |
| 2 Corinthians 6:3 | We do not put a stumbling block in anyone’s way, so that our ministry may not (mē | μή | particle) be faulted. |
| 2 Corinthians 6:9 | as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying, and yet — look! — we continue to live; as scourged, and yet not (mē | μή | particle) killed; |
| 2 Corinthians 6:14 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) be unevenly yoked with unbelievers; for what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? |
| 2 Corinthians 6:17 | Therefore, “come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord, and “touch no (mē | μή | particle) unclean thing; then I will receive you, |
Mnemonics
mnemonic for greek word may (mh)
You certainly |may| |not| do that, |lest| you get hurt!
Who did this? Not μή.
Who did this? Not μή.