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Glossary of Religious Terms
Abase - to live in poverty
Abound - to live in prosperity
Admonition - instruction
Affliction - pain in the body or soul
Ambassador - one who is appointed to interpret the mind of his ruler to those in a foreign land
Apostle - an appointed, or special messenger
Assurance - disappearance of all doubts; sureness
Atonement - an act that brings enemies together as friends
Beget - to cause to be born
Begotten - caused to be born
Believe - to trust; to rely upon
Beseech - to plead strongly
Bestowed - given to one as a gift
Blessed - happy; highly favored with God
Born again - given spiritual life by God
Book of Life - God's list of believers
Carnal - that which is controlled by physical desires
Charity - love
Christ - the Anointed Son of God
Commendeth - makes a public demonstration; reveals
Commitment - entrusting; giving over one's life to God
Condemnation - verdict of guilt
Confess - to admit openly; to acknowledge agreement with God's Word
Constrain - to control or compel
Conversation - way of living
Comforter - one who imparts strength through consolation
Corruptible - perishable; that which can be made rotten or spoiled
Damnation - judgment
Delude - to mislead
Destroyer - one who wrecks that which is built
Destruction - ruin
Devil - a fallen personality who is against God, good, and Christians; sometimes called Satan- a deceiver and tempter
Discernment - ability to see into a problem, to understand why things differ
Disciples - those who follow so they can learn
Doctrine - a teaching
Edify - to build up; to strengthen
Elect (noun) - those chosen by God
Enmity - positive hatred against another
Evil one - same as devil
Exceeding abundantly - far beyond and above
Expiation - the compensation or satisfaction that fully makes right a wrong relationship
Faint - to lose heart; to weaken; to give up
Faith - confidence in something or someone (especially Christ himself); trust
Fear of God - striking awe before a God to whom one is responsible
Fellowship - enjoyment of something with another person
Flesh - the self that wants one's own desires rather than God's
Forbearance - putting up with the faults of others
Foreigner - one whose citizenship is elsewhere
Fornication - sex outside marriage
Glory of God - all God's attributes displayed in their perfection
Gospel - the good news of how Christ, by His death and resurrection, took away our sin and offers us the gift of eternal life
Grace - the undeserved favor of God
Heart - the real self; the inner man with his affections
Holiness - God-like state of being a complete person, blameless in character, pure in personality
Holy Ghost - the Holy Spirit; the third person of the One God who exists in three equal persons
Impute - to credit one person with something that belongs to another
Imperishable - something that cannot be ruined or changed for the worse
Iniquity - something that does not meet requirements; a condition of not being right
Inner man - the unseen part of a person that lives on after the body is dead; innermost being or self
Inspiration - God's act of imparting something to one's mind
Intercession - prayer or pleading on behalf of another
Jesus - the given name of Him who came into the world to save sinners. The name means “Savior,” the promised Messiah.
Joint-heirs - those to whom it is given to share equally an inheritance or estate
Judge - to decide on the basis of the knowledge we have
Justified - declared and regarded as being in right relationship with God
Law - the demand and expectation of God
Lord - the title of One who is the highest and final authority
Lord Jesus Christ - this phrase speaks of the three-fold nature of the Savior- as man (Jesus); as God (Christ); and as sovereign (Lord)
Manifest - to show openly, to put on display
Meekness - the gentle spirit that accepts the will and right of God as his own
Messiah - God's appointed One, set apart to deliver His people
Ministry - act of supplying in service the needs of others
Nurture - the discipline that regulates character
Ordained - set apart for a special reason or purpose
Overcome - to prevail; conquer; win out; master
Pastor - a minister who nourishes his people with God's Word
Peradventure - perhaps, once in a while
Perdition - state or place of everlasting misery and loss
Perfection - making a person grow up or be complete; maturing
Perish - to be separated from God
Perverse - morally twisted out of the right shape
Pilgrims - those who temporarily travel through a foreign or strange land
Powers - those who can cause things to take place; authorities
Pre-eminence - state of being first in order, having no other equal
Prevent - to go ahead of (early English); precede
Principalities - those who are in power and exercise rule
Prophet - one who speaks on behalf of God by inspiration
Prophetic - having to do with prophecy; that is, the announcement to persons of things they cannot learn by any other way
Propitiation - act of making the right place and terms so that people who are enemies can get together and both be satisfied
Purify - to make absolutely clean
Quick - living
Quicken - to make something come to life
Reconcile - to bring together as friends those who were separated as enemies
Redemption - the releasing or deliverance of something at a cost which makes that thing the possession of the purchaser
Regenerate - to make over or to make new again
Remission - forgiveness, the removing of a debt
Repent - to turn about in thinking and acting
Reproof - conviction of sin; exposing of error
Revelation - taking away blindness so that the truth can be seen
Reverence - a special regard for another which shows honor, responsibility and willingness to be subject to him, especially to God
Righteousness - doing all that is called for in the law; quality of being right or just
Saint - a person cleansed from sin and set apart for God
Salvation - state of being rescued; made safe
Sanctify - to cleanse from sin and dedicate to God
Satan - same as devil
Saved - rescued, made safe, taken out of danger, delivered, found and kept
Savor - a certain flavor, a distinctive quality
Sin - violation of God's law by failure to fulfill his requirements
Sojourners - those living temporarily in any place
Soul - the person or unseen one who lives in the body but can also survive the death of the body
Strait - narrow; confined; restricted
Suffer - (Biblical English) to allow or permit
Supplication - asking with great desire
Unbelievers - those who refuse to put their confidence and faith in the Savior and trust Him to take away their sins
Verily - honestly, truly
Wickedness - the practice of ways that are displeasing to God and harmful to man
Witness - one who tells what he has seen or experienced
World - the world system, usually as in the control of evil and wicked powers, together with their ungodly ways
Wrath - strong anger; rage; indignation
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