πίστις

πίστις, -εως, ἡ

(πείθω), [in LXX chiefly for אֱמוּנָה ;]

1. in active sense, faith, belief, trust, confidence, in NT always of religious faith in God or Christ or spiritual things: Matt 8,10, Luk 5,20, ApG 14,9, Rom 1,8, 1 Kor 2,5, 2 Kor 1,24, 1 Tim 1,5, al.; with genitive obj., Mark 11,22, ApG 3,16, Rom 3,22, Gal 2,16, Ef 3,12, Jak 2,1, al.; with prep., ἐν, Rom 3,25, Gal 3,26, Ef 1,15, Kol 1,24, 1 Tim 1,14; 3,13, 2 Tim 1,13; 3,15, 2 Pet 1,1; εἰς, ApG 20,21; 24,24; 26,18, Kol 2,5, 1 Pet 1,21; πρός, 1 Thess 1,8, Phm 5; ἐπί, with accusative Hebr 6,1 ἐν τῇ π. στήκειν (εἶναι, μένειν), 1 Kor 16,13, 1 Kor 13,5, 1 Tim 2,15; ὑπακοὴ τῆς π., Rom 1,5; 16,26; ὁ ἐκ π., Rom 3,26; 4,16, Gal 3,12; διὰ (τῆς) π., Rom 3,30, Gal 2,16, Fil 3,9. By meton., objectively, that which is the object or content of belief, the faith: ApG 6,7; 14,22, Gal 1,23; 3,23; 6,10, Fil 1,26, 27 Jud 3,20, and perh. also ApG 13,8; 16,5, Rom 1,5 Rom 16,26 (see supr.), 1 Kor 16,13, Kol 1,23, 2 Thess 3,2 (Lft., Notes, 125), 1 Tim 1,19; 3,9; 4,1, 6; 5,8 1Tim 6,10, 12, 2 Tim 3,8; 4,7 Tit 1,4, 13; 3,15, 1 Pet 5,9.

2. In passive sense,

(a) fidelity, faithfulness: Matt 23,23, Gal 5,22; ἡ π. τοῦ θεοῦ, Rom 3,3

(b) objectively, plighted faith, a pledge of fidelity: 1 Tim 5,12, (On the various shades of meaning in which the word is used in NT, see esp. ICC on Rom 1,17, pp. 31ff.; Lft., Ga., 154ff.; Stevens, Th. NT, 422, 515ff.; DB, i, 830ff.; Cremer, see word)