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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.

2. (n.) Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc.

Greek

181. akatastasia -- instability
... instability. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: akatastasia Phonetic
Spelling: (ak-at-as-tah-see'-ah) Short Definition: disturbance, upheaval ...
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3153. mataiotes -- vanity, emptiness
... ah-yot'-ace) Short Definition: vanity, purposelessness Definition: vanity, emptiness,
unreality, purposelessness, ineffectiveness, instability, frailty; false ...
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Library

Instability
... Instability. A Sermon (No.158). Delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 11, 1857,
by the. REV. CH SPURGEON. at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. ...
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Of Instability of the Heart, and of Directing the Aim Towards God
... THE THIRD BOOK. ON INWARD CONSOLATION CHAPTER XXXIII Of instability of the
heart, and of directing the aim towards God. "My Son, trust ...
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Whether Sloth Should be Accounted a Capital vice?
... "idleness, drowsiness, uneasiness of the mind, restlessness of the body, instability,
loquacity, curiosity." Therefore it seems that either Gregory or Isidore ...
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On the Causes of Doubt or Assent.
... One is the changefulness and instability of the human mind, whose nature it is to
generate dissent, either that of one with another, or that of people with ...
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Concerning Eutropius, Chief of the Eunuchs, and the Law Enacted by ...
... [1593] When he was raised to present power, he thought not of the future, nor of
the instability of human affairs, but caused those who sought an asylum in ...
/.../chapter vii concerning eutropius chief of.htm

A Second Discouragement in Prayer Opposite to Perseverance, to Wit ...
... 5. For, as for thoughts merely about vain objects, to which we have little or no
affection, and which proceed wholly from the instability of the imagination ...
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1 Timothy vi. 13-16
... By considering the instability and uncertainty of riches, and that hope in God is
infinitely more valuable; God being the Author of wealth itself. Ver.17. ...
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Christ and the Unstable.
... many a one is saying to himself, But how are we to know at first, and who is to
judge, if such a thing occurs with us, whether it is instability, or rather a ...
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The Almost Christian
... 5. The fifth and last reason I shall assign why so many are only almost
Christians, is a fickleness and instability of temper. It ...
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Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 3: 1857
... Fast-Day Service. Fear Not. Thy Redeemer. Instability. The True Christian's
Blessedness. Light at Evening Time. The Security of the Church. ...
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Thesaurus

Instability (1 Occurrence)
... condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability
to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a ...
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Novice (1 Occurrence)
... For these reasons he is peculiarly liable to instability, and to the other weaknesses
and sins connected with an inflated opinion of his own powers. ...
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Installed (5 Occurrences)

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Inspires (6 Occurrences)

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Fickleness (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality of being fickle; instability;
inconsonancy. Multi-Version Concordance Fickleness (1 Occurrence). ...
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Falsehoods (4 Occurrences)
... prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and
cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I ...
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Reckless (8 Occurrences)
... prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and
cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I ...
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Recklessness (1 Occurrence)
... prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and
cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I ...
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Reed (41 Occurrences)
... weakness (2 Kings 18:21; Ezek. 29:6), also fickleness or instability (Matthew
11:7; Comp. Ephesians 4:14). A "bruised reed" (Isaiah 42 ...
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Confusion (71 Occurrences)
... Greek akatashatasia, "instability" is translated "confusion" (1 Corinthians 14:33
James 3:16); sugchusis, "a pouring out together" (Acts 19:29). ...
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Bible Concordance

Instability (1 Occurrence)

Jeremiah 23:32 Lo, I 'am' against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I -- I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Instability

Instability: David, in Yielding to Lust

Instability: Ephraim and Judah

Instability: General Scriptures Concerning

Instability: Lot's Wife

Instability: Mark

Instability: Reuben

Instability: Saul, in his Feelings Toward David

Instability: Solomon, in Yielding to his Idolatrous Wives

Instability: some Disciples of Jesus

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