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Dictionary of Bible Themes – 6169 godlessness
6169 godlessness
6169 godlessness
An outlook and lifestyle which does not acknowledge God. God frustrates the evil purposes of the godless and judges them. Believers are to guard against godlessness.
Godlessness is an outlook and lifestyle which does not acknowledge God
Ps 14:1-3 pp Ps 53:1-3 See also Job 35:9-10; Ps 10:4-11; Ps 36:1-4; Pr 11:9; Pr 30:8-9
Examples of godlessness
Judah’s religious leaders: Jer 23:11-12,15-17Heb 12:16 Esau
God frustrates the evil purposes of the godless
Job 8:11-19; Job 34:29-30; Ps 9:17-20
God judges godless people and nations
Ro 1:18 The book of Job was written against a background which made no allowance for the prosperity of the godless or the misery of the godly, so no attempt is made to reconcile these things with the justice of God (as it is, for instance, in Ps 73): Job 13:15-16; Job 15:34; Job 20:4-5; Job 27:8-10; Job 36:8-13
Ps 50:16-22; Isa 10:6; Isa 33:13-14
Believers are to guard against godlessness
Jude 3-23 See also 1Ti 4:7; 1Ti 6:20-21
Jesus Christ will turn godlessness away from Israel
See also
| 1095 | God, patience of |
| 6020 | sin |
| 6154 | fall, the |
| 6231 | rejection of God |
| 8265 | godliness |
| 8702 | agnosticism |
| 8704 | apostasy |
| 8710 | atheism |
| 8712 | denial of Christ |
| 8764 | forgetting God |
| 8768 | idolatry |
| 8846 | ungodliness |
Dictionary of Bible Themes Scripture index copyright Martin H. Manser, 2009. As Editor, Martin Manser wishes to thank all those who compiled or edited the NIV Thematic Study Bible, on which this work is based.
