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Supply to Your Endurance Godly DevotionThe Watchtower—1993 | September 15
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What Godly Devotion Is
4, 5. What is godly devotion?
4 The Greek noun for “godly devotion” (eu·seʹbei·a) may be translated literally as “well-reverencing.”a (2 Peter 1:6, Kingdom Interlinear) It denotes a warm heartfelt feeling toward God. According to W. E. Vine, the adjective eu·se·besʹ, literally meaning “well-reverential,” signifies “the energy which, directed by holy awe of God, finds expression in devoted activity.”—2 Peter 2:9, Int.
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Supply to Your Endurance Godly DevotionThe Watchtower—1993 | September 15
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According to lexicographers J. P. Louw and E. A. Nida, “in a number of languages [eu·seʹbei·a] in 1 Tm 2.2 may be appropriately translated as ‘to live as God would have us live’ or ‘to live as God has told us we should live.’”
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Supply to Your Endurance Godly DevotionThe Watchtower—1993 | September 15
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a Regarding eu·seʹbei·a, William Barclay notes: “It is the seb- part [the root] of the word which means reverence or worship. Eu is the Greek word for well; therefore, eusebeia is worship, reverence well and rightly given.”—New Testament Words.
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