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
| 2 Peter 2:21 | For it would have been better for them never (mē | μή | particle) to have come to know the way of righteousness than, having come to know it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them. |
| 2 Peter 3:8 | But do not (mē | μή | particle) let this one thing escape your notice, dear friends, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a single day. |
| 2 Peter 3:9 | The Lord is not late in fulfilling his promise, as some regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not (mē | μή | particle) willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. |
| 2 Peter 3:17 | You therefore, dear friends, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard that you are not (mē | μή | particle) led astray by the error of these lawless people and fall from your stable position. |
| 1 John 2:1 | My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not (mē | μή | particle) sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one. |
| 1 John 2:4 | The one who says, “I know God,” yet does not (mē | μή | particle) keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him. |
| 1 John 2:15 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. |
| 1 John 2:22 | Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. |
| 1 John 2:28 | And now, dear children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not (mē | μή | particle) be put to shame in his presence when he comes. |
| 1 John 3:10 | By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: whoever does not (mē | μή | particle) practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) love his brother. |
| 1 John 3:13 | So do not (mē | μή | particle) be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. |
| 1 John 3:14 | We know that we have crossed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not (mē | μή | particle) love remains in the realm of death. |
| 1 John 3:18 | Little children, let us love, not (mē | μή | particle) in word or speech but in action and truth. |
| 1 John 3:21 | Dear friends, if our conscience does not (mē | μή | particle) condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God, |
| 1 John 4:1 | Dear friends, do not (mē | μή | particle) believe every spirit, but test the spirits to find out whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. |
| 1 John 4:3 | but every spirit that does not (mē | μή | particle) confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world. |
| 1 John 4:8 | The person who does not (mē | μή | particle) love does not know God, because God is love. |
| 1 John 4:20 | If someone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. |
| 1 John 5:5 | Who is it that conquers the world, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? |
| 1 John 5:10 | The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. |
| 1 John 5:12 | The one who has the Son has life; the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) have the Son of God does not have life. |
| 1 John 5:16 | If someone sees his brother committing a sin that does not (mē | μή | particle) lead to death, he should ask and God will give him life — to those whose sins do not (mē | μή | particle) lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that he should pray about that. |
| 2 John 1:7 | For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not (mē | μή | particle) confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist! |
| 2 John 1:8 | Be on your guard, so that we may not (mē | μή | particle) lose the things we worked for but may receive a full reward. |
| 2 John 1:9 | Everyone who goes on ahead and does not (mē | μή | particle) continue in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. |
| 2 John 1:10 | If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not (mē | μή | particle) receive him into your house or give him any (mē | μή | particle) greeting, |
| 3 John 1:10 | For this reason, should I come, I will bring up the things he is doing, disparaging us with malicious talk. And not (mē | μή | particle) satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He even prevents those who would like to and puts them out of the church. |
| 3 John 1:11 | Dear friend, do not (mē | μή | particle) imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. |
| Jude 1:5 | Now I want to remind you, though you once knew all this, that the Lord, having saved his people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not (mē | μή | particle) believe. |
| Jude 1:6 | And the angels who did not (mē | μή | particle) stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness for the judgment of the great day. |
| Jude 1:19 | These are the ones causing division, worldly-minded, and devoid (mē | μή | particle) of (mē | μή | particle) the Spirit. |
| Revelation 1:17 | And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) fear! I am the First and the Last, |
| Revelation 2:5 | Therefore remember from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. If not (mē | μή | particle), I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. |
| Revelation 2:11 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who conquers will not be harmed by the second death. |
| Revelation 2:16 | Therefore repent! Otherwise, I will come to you without delay and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. |
| Revelation 2:17 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name which no one can understand except the one who receives it. |
| Revelation 2:22 | Beware, I will throw her onto a bed of suffering, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of her ways. |
| Revelation 3:3 | Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not (mē | μή | particle) wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. |
| Revelation 3:5 | The one who conquers will, in this way, be dressed in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the Book of Life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and before his angels. |
| Revelation 3:12 | The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God and he will never go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven from my God), and my own new name. |
| Revelation 3:18 | I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire so you can be rich; and white garments to clothe yourself so your shameful nakedness will not (mē | μή | particle) be exposed; and salve to put on your eyes so you can see! |
| Revelation 5:5 | Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop (mē | μή | particle) weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has won the victory so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” |
| Revelation 6:6 | And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not (mē | μή | particle) harm the oil and the wine!” |
| Revelation 7:1 | After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no (mē | μή | particle) wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or against any tree. |
| Revelation 7:3 | saying, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” |
| Revelation 7:16 | No longer will they go hungry, neither will they thirst again; the sun will not (mē | μή | particle) beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat; |
| Revelation 8:12 | The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened; for a third of the day there was no (mē | μή | particle) light, and for a third of the night as well. |
| Revelation 9:4 | They were told not (mē | μή | particle) to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. |
| Revelation 9:5 | They were allowed not (mē | μή | particle) to kill them but to torture them for five months, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a person. |
| Revelation 9:6 | And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. |
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.