Strong's Greek · G2673

καταργέω

katargéō

abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void

Definition

to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively

Derivation

from G2596 (κατά) and G691 (ἀργέω);

Appears 27 times in Scripture

Romans 7:6

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

1 Corinthians 15:26

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

Luke 13:7

So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

Romans 3:31

Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

1 Corinthians 1:28

He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

Romans 7:2

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

Romans 4:14

For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

Romans 3:3

What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?

Romans 6:6

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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