Strong's Greek · G571

G571 ápistos

ἄπιστος

ap'-is-tos

unbelieving

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ápistos appears 23 times in Scripture, including Matthew 17:17 and Mark 9:19. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

(actively) disbelieving, i.e. without Christian faith (specially, a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing)

In the King James Version

that believeth not, faithless, incredible thing, infidel, unbeliever(-ing)

Derivation

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G4103 (πιστός);

Appears 23 times in Scripture

Acts 26:8

“Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?”

Luke 9:41

““O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.””

Matthew 17:17

““O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.””

John 20:27

“Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.””

Mark 9:19

““O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.””

1 Corinthians 7:14

“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.”

1 Corinthians 7:13

“And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.”

1 Corinthians 7:12

“To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.”

1 Corinthians 6:6

“Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!”

Luke 12:46

“The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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