Strong's #4102: pistis (pronounced pis'-tis)
from 3982; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:--assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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pistis
1) conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the NT of a conviction or belief respecting man' s relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith and joined with it
1a) relating to God
1a1) the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ
1b) relating to Christ
1b1) a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God
1c) the religious beliefs of Christians
1d) belief with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or in Christ, springing from faith in the same
2) fidelity, faithfulness
2a) the character of one who can be relied on
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G3982
Citing in TDNT: 6:174, 849
Usage:
This word is used 244 times:
Romans 3:27: "but by the law of faith."
Romans 3:28: "we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
Romans 3:30: "shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith."
Romans 3:30: "and uncircumcision through faith."
Romans 3:31: "make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish"
Romans 4:5: "the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
Romans 4:9: "for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."
Romans 4:11: "of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he"
Romans 4:12: "who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham,"
Romans 4:13: "but through the righteousness of faith."
Romans 4:14: "which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise"
Romans 4:16: "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the"
Romans 4:16: "but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is"
Romans 4:19: "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body"
Romans 4:20: "through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;"
Romans 5:1: "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God"
Romans 5:2: "also we have access by faith into this grace wherein"
Romans 9:30: "the righteousness which is of faith."
Romans 9:32: "Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works"
Romans 10:6: "the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not"
Romans 10:8: "that is, the word of faith, which we preach;"
Romans 10:17: "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word"
Romans 11:20: "and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:"
Romans 12:3: "according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
Romans 12:6: "let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;"
Romans 14:1: "Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful"
Romans 14:22: "Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God."
Romans 14:23: "because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not"
Romans 14:23: "whatsoever is not of faith is sin."
Romans 16:26: "nations for the obedience of faith:"
1 Corinthians 2:5: "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men,"
1 Corinthians 12:9: "To another faith by the same Spirit; to"
1 Corinthians 13:2: "though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and"
1 Corinthians 13:13: "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;"
1 Corinthians 15:14: "vain, and your faith is also vain."
1 Corinthians 15:17: "be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in"
1 Corinthians 16:13: "ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong."
2 Corinthians 1:24: "for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your"
2 Corinthians 1:24: "of your joy: for by faith ye stand."
2 Corinthians 4:13: "the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and"
2 Corinthians 5:7: "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
2 Corinthians 8:7: "ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge,"
2 Corinthians 10:15: "having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you"
2 Corinthians 13:5: "ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know"
Galatians 1:23: "now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed."
Galatians 2:16: "of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we"
Galatians 2:16: "that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by"
Galatians 2:20: "the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,"
Galatians 3:2: "or by the hearing of faith?"
Galatians 3:5: "of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"
