Bible Dictionary: Irreligious

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Indifferent to religion; ungodly; not controlled by religious motives or principles.

2. (a.) Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.

Strong's Hebrew

2611. chaneph -- profane, irreligious
... 2610, 2611. chaneph. 2612 . profane, irreligious. Transliteration: chaneph
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-nafe') Short Definition: godless. ...
/hebrew/2611.htm - 6k

Library

Conduct of the Arians Towards the Nicene Council. Ignorant as Well ...
... Ignorant as well as irreligious to attempt to reverse an Ecumenical Council:
proceedings at Nicæa: Eusebians then signed what they now complain of: on the ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/chapter ii conduct of the arians.htm

The Gods of the Mythic Class the Poets a Very Poor Authority in ...
... Book II. Chapter VII."The Gods of the Mythic Class The Poets a Very Poor Authority
in Such Matters. Homer and the Mythic Poets. Why Irreligious. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/ad nationes/chapter vii the gods of the.htm

Extracts from the Thalia of Arius. Arius Maintains that God Became ...
... And the mockeries which he utters in it, repulsive and most irreligious, are such
as these [1839] :"God was not always a Father;' but once God was alone, and ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/chapter ii extracts from the thalia.htm

Subject Continued. Third Proof of the Son's Eternity, viz. From ...
... Next, let them tell us this,"or rather learn from it how irreligious they are in
saying, Once He was not,' and, He was not before His generation;'"for if ...
/.../chapter vi subject continued third proof.htm

Circular Letter to the Clergy of the Arch-Deaconry of Suffolk.
... And the only way now likely to do this being sensibly to convince them of their
mistake herein, by a strict prosecution of all such, irreligious wretches, who ...
/.../prideaux/directions to church-wardens/circular letter to the clergy.htm

Defence of the Council's Phrases, "From the Essence," and "One in ...
... The Council [883] wishing to do away with the irreligious phrases of the Arians,
and to use instead the acknowledged words of the Scriptures, that the Son is ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/chapter v defence of the councils.htm

But Even this is Nothing. ...
... they had seven times partially and gradually undertaken, since the time of
Charlemagne,"the philosophers of the second school, the irreligious school, the ...
/.../lamartine/atheism among the people/xi but even this is.htm

The Chaff Driven Away
... define it. We sometimes call men irreligious; and, surely, to be irreligious
is bad enough; but to be religious is not good enough. A ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the chaff driven away.htm

Salt Without Savour
... There is not a hair of difference in that respect between hundreds and thousands
of professing Christian men, and the irreligious man that has his office up ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/salt without savour.htm

Two Senses of the Word Son, 1 Adoptive; 2 Essential; Attempts of ...
... If for the toil's sake God was content with making the Son only, instead of making
all things at once, this is an irreligious thought, especially in those who ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/chapter iii two senses of the.htm

Thesaurus

Irreligious (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.
Multi-Version Concordance Irreligious (7 Occurrences). ...
/i/irreligious.htm - 8k

Godless (31 Occurrences)
... God. The godless man is not merely the atheistic, unbelieving or even
irreligious, but the openly impious, wicked and profane man. ...
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Irreligion (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The state of being irreligious; want of religion;
impiety. Multi-Version Concordance Irreligion (1 Occurrence). ...
/i/irreligion.htm - 6k

Frivolous (4 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious
and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called 'knowledge ...
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Talk (164 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious
and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called 'knowledge ...
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Heathen (145 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An irreligious person. 4. (a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. 5.
(a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish. 6. (a.) Irreligious; scoffing. Int. ...
/h/heathen.htm - 38k

Opponent (13 Occurrences)
... (WEY). 1 Corinthians 6:1 If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does
he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people? (WEY). ...
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Grievance (7 Occurrences)
... (WEY NIV). 1 Corinthians 6:1 If one of you has a grievance against an opponent,
does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people? ...
/g/grievance.htm - 10k

Wisdom (320 Occurrences)
... phronesis). See also PRUDENCE. 2. History: (1) In the prophetic period, indeed,
"wise" generally has an irreligious connotation. Israel ...
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Indulge (12 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). 2 Timothy 2:16 But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for
those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety, (WEY NIV). ...
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Bible Concordance

Irreligious (7 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 6:1 If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?
(WEY)

1 Timothy 1:9 and remembers that a law is not enacted to control a righteous man, but for the lawless and rebellious, the irreligious and sinful, the godless and profane--for those who strike their fathers or their mothers, for murderers,
(WEY NIV)

1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called 'knowledge';
(WEY)

2 Timothy 2:16 But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety,
(WEY)

2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,
(WEY)

Hebrews 12:16 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
(See RSV)

1 Peter 4:18 And if it is difficult even for a righteous man to be saved, what will become of irreligious men and sinners?
(WEY)

Subtopics

Irreligious

Related Terms

Godless (31 Occurrences)

Irreligion (1 Occurrence)

Frivolous (4 Occurrences)

Talk (164 Occurrences)

Heathen (145 Occurrences)

Opponent (13 Occurrences)

Grievance (7 Occurrences)