Strong's Greek · G3900

G3900 paráptōma

παράπτωμα

fall, fault, offence, sin, trespass

When paráptōma is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

a side-slip (lapse or deviation), i.e. (unintentional) error or (wilful) transgression

Derivation

from G3895 (παραπίπτω);

Appears 20 times in Scripture

Mark 11:25

And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”

Romans 5:15

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

Romans 5:16

Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.

Romans 5:18

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

Romans 5:17

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

Matthew 6:15

But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.

Romans 4:25

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

Matthew 6:14

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

When paráptōma is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what paráptōma means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Mark 11:25 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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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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