ἄπιστος
apistos (G0571)
unbelieving
AI Word Study
The ancient Greek word ἄπιστος (apistos) carries a meaning that can be translated to "unbelieving." This word is used 23 times in the Bible to describe someone who lacks faith or has doubts. Its usage encompasses various contexts: describing individuals who refuse to believe in God (such as in Matthew 17:17), labeling the doubting Thomas (John 20:27), and even characterizing those with unfaithful hearts (1 Corinthians 7:14). This suggests that ἄπιστος encompasses not just intellectual doubt, but also a general lack of trust and commitment in one's faith. Its range of application implies that unbelief is not just a matter of intellect, but also involves a willingness to trust in something or someone. The significance of ἄπιστος lies in its implications for relationship dynamics and spiritual standing. When applied to others, it can denote estrangement and lack of trust. However, when directed at oneself, it highlights the importance of faith and trust in spiritual pursuits, underscoring the value of faith as a fundamental aspect of human spirituality.
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Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?
But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”