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 John 4:4 | Little children, you have been born of God and have overcome them, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. |
| 1 John 4:7 | Dear friends, let us love one another, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. |
| 1 John 4:8 | The person who does not love does not know God, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) God is love. |
| 1 John 4:9 | By this the love of God is revealed to us: that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. |
| 1 John 4:10 | In this is love, not that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we have loved God but that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins. |
| 1 John 4:13 | By this we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we abide in God and he in us: because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he has given us of his Spirit. |
| 1 John 4:14 | And we have seen and testify that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. |
| 1 John 4:15 | If anyone confesses that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. |
| 1 John 4:17 | By this, love is fully realized among us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) just as he is, so also are we in this world. |
| 1 John 4:18 | There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) fear has to do with punishment. So the one who fears has not been perfected in love. |
| 1 John 4:19 | We love because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he first loved us. |
| 1 John 4:20 | If someone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. |
| 1 John 5:1 | Everyone who believes that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child. |
| 1 John 5:2 | By this we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments. |
| 1 John 5:4 | because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. And this is the victorious power that has conquered the world — our faith. |
| 1 John 5:5 | Who is it that conquers the world, but the one who believes that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus is the Son of God? |
| 1 John 5:6 | This is the one who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Spirit is the truth. |
| 1 John 5:7 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) there are three that testify: |
| 1 John 5:9 | If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this is the testimony of God that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he has borne concerning his Son. |
| 1 John 5:10 | The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. |
| 1 John 5:11 | And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. |
| 1 John 5:13 | I am writing these things to you so that you may know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have eternal life — you who believe in the name of the Son of God. |
| 1 John 5:14 | And this is the confidence we have as we approach him: that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. |
| 1 John 5:15 | And if we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he hears us regarding whatever we ask, we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we have the requests that we have asked of him. |
| 1 John 5:18 | We know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everyone who has been born of God does not continue to sin, but the one who was born of God protects him and the evil one will not harm him. |
| 1 John 5:19 | We know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we are children of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. |
| 1 John 5:20 | And we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Son of God has come and has given us discernment so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life. |
| 2 John 1:4 | I rejoiced greatly because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have found some of your children walking in the truth, just as we received commandment from the Father. |
| 2 John 1:7 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist! |
| 3 John 1:12 | Everyone has testified favorably regarding Demetrius, and so has the truth itself. And we testify for him as well, and you know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) our testimony is true. |
| Jude 1:5 | Now I want to remind you, though you once knew all this, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Lord, having saved his people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. |
| Jude 1:11 | Woe to them! For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they take the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to the error of Balaam for the sake of gain, and perish in the rebellion of Korah. |
| Jude 1:18 | how (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they said to you, “In the final age there will be scoffers driven by their own ungodly desires.” |
| Revelation 2:2 | I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you cannot put up with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles (but are not) and found them to be false. |
| Revelation 2:4 | But I do have this against you, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have left your first love! |
| Revelation 2:6 | But you do have this: you hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. |
| Revelation 2:14 | But I have several things against you, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have among you those who follow the teaching of Balaam, the one who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. |
| Revelation 2:20 | But I have this against you, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. |
| Revelation 2:23 | I will kill her children with a fatal disease. Then all the churches will understand that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am the one who searches minds and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works. |
| Revelation 3:1 | “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: The one who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars has this to say: I know your deeds; that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have a reputation that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are alive, but you are dead. |
| Revelation 3:4 | But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they are worthy. |
| Revelation 3:8 | I know your works. Look, I have placed before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. |
| Revelation 3:9 | Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who claim to be Jews and are not, but lie — I will make them come and bow down before your feet and understand that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have loved you. |
| Revelation 3:10 | Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have kept my word about patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is coming upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. |
| Revelation 3:15 | I know your works, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! |
| Revelation 3:16 | So because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth! |
| Revelation 3:17 | Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you say, ‘I am rich and have prospered; I need nothing,’ but do not realize that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, |
| Revelation 4:11 | “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.” |
| Revelation 5:4 | So I began to weep bitterly because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. |
| Revelation 5:9 | And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation. |
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.