For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ὅτι
Vocabulary form:
o{ti
Definition:
that, since, because
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
1,296
GK:
4022
Mnemonics:
I like hot tea because ...
Mnemonic Singing:
Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine,
nor ever murmur nor repine;
content, whatever lot I see,
since 'tis my God that leadeth me.
Verse:
“How can the scribes say ὅτι that the Messiah is the son of David?” (Mark 12:35)
“After me comes a man who is greater than I, ὅτι he existed before me.” (John 1:30)
“If someone says, ‘I love God,‘ yet hates his brother, he is a liar.” (1 John 4:20)
Notes:
o{ti can also act as quotation marks. Our text capitalizes the first word in what the editors feel is a quotation; in these cases they are expecting you to view o{ti as quotation marks.
Biblical Concordance
| 1 Peter 2:15 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this is the will of God: by doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men. |
| 1 Peter 2:21 | For to this you have been called, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Christ also suffered for you, leaving behind for you an example so that you might follow in his footsteps. |
| 1 Peter 3:9 | not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the contrary blessing, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) for this you were called that you might inherit a blessing. |
| 1 Peter 3:12 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” |
| 1 Peter 3:18 | Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Christ also suffered once for our sins, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, |
| 1 Peter 4:1 | Therefore since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same way of thinking, that is, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, |
| 1 Peter 4:8 | Above all, maintain a fervent love among yourselves, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) love covers a multitude of sins. |
| 1 Peter 4:14 | If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Spirit of glory, that is, the Spirit of God, is resting on you. |
| 1 Peter 4:17 | Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the time has come to begin judgment with the house of God, and if first with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? |
| 1 Peter 5:5 | Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” |
| 1 Peter 5:7 | casting all your anxieties on him, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he cares about you. |
| 2 Peter 1:14 | since I know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) my body will soon be put aside as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. |
| 2 Peter 1:20 | Above all, you must understand that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) no prophecy of scripture arises from the prophet’s own interpretation, |
| 2 Peter 3:3 | Above all you must understand that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following their own lusts |
| 2 Peter 3:5 | For in maintaining this, they overlook the fact that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water. |
| 2 Peter 3:8 | But do not let this one thing escape your notice, dear friends, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a single day. |
| 1 John 1:5 | Now this is the message that we have heard from him and are proclaiming to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in him. |
| 1 John 1:6 | If we say that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we have fellowship with him but continue to walk in darkness, we lie and are not putting the truth into practice. |
| 1 John 1:8 | If we say that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we are without sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. |
| 1 John 1:10 | If we say that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. |
| 1 John 2:3 | Now this is how we can be sure that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we know God: if we keep his commandments. |
| 1 John 2:4 | The one who says, “I know God,” yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him. |
| 1 John 2:5 | But whoever keeps his word, truly in that person is the love of God brought to fulfillment. This is how we can be sure that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we are in him: |
| 1 John 2:8 | Yet it is a new commandment that I write to you, one that is true in him and in you, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. |
| 1 John 2:11 | But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness; he walks in the darkness and does not know where he is going, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the darkness has blinded his eyes. |
| 1 John 2:12 | I am writing to you, my children, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) your sins are forgiven on account of his name. |
| 1 John 2:13 | I am writing to you, fathers, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have overcome the evil one. |
| 1 John 2:14 | I have written to you, my children, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. |
| 1 John 2:16 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) all that is in the world — the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride of possession — is not from the Father but from the world. |
| 1 John 2:18 | My children, it is the last hour! And just as you heard that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Antichrist would come, even now many antichrists have appeared. Therefore we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is the last hour. |
| 1 John 2:19 | They went out from us but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out from us that it might become plain that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) none of them are of us. |
| 1 John 2:21 | I write to you, not because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you do not know the truth, but because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you do know it and because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) no lie comes from the truth. |
| 1 John 2:22 | Who is the liar but the one who denies that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus is the Christ? This one is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. |
| 1 John 2:29 | If you know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he is righteous, you also know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. |
| 1 John 3:1 | See what great love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God — and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it did not know him. |
| 1 John 3:2 | Dear friends, at the present time we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we will be. But we do know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) when he is revealed we will be like him, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we will see him just as he is. |
| 1 John 3:5 | And you know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he appeared to take away our sins, and that there is no sin in him. |
| 1 John 3:8 | The one who continues to sin is of the devil, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose — that he might destroy the works of the devil. |
| 1 John 3:9 | No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) God’s seed abides in him. He cannot keep on sinning, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he has been born of God. |
| 1 John 3:11 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this is the message that you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another. |
| 1 John 3:12 | We are not to be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) his own deeds were evil and those of his brother were righteous. |
| 1 John 3:14 | We know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we have crossed over from death to life, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we love the brothers. Whoever does not love remains in the realm of death. |
| 1 John 3:15 | Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. |
| 1 John 3:16 | By this we have come to know love: that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he laid down his life on our behalf. And we are obligated to lay down our lives for the brothers. |
| 1 John 3:19 | And by this we will know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we are of the truth and will set our conscience at rest in his presence, |
| 1 John 3:20 | that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) if our conscience condemns us, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) God is greater than our conscience and knows all things. |
| 1 John 3:22 | and whatever we ask we receive from him, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we keep his commandments and do what is pleasing in his sight. |
| 1 John 3:24 | And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he abides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us. |
| 1 John 4:1 | Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to find out whether they are from God, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) many false prophets have gone out into the world. |
| 1 John 4:3 | but every spirit that does not 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. |
Mnemonics
Since that hot tea is hot it
Since that hot tea is hot it will burn your mouth because it's a hot tea.
If you are haughty, drink
If you are haughty, drink some hot tea.