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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; moderately good.

2. (a.) Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation.

Greek

414. anektoteros -- more tolerable
... more tolerable. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anektoteros Phonetic
Spelling: (an-ek-tot'-er-os) Short Definition: endurable, tolerable Definition ...
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Library

For There were Even in the Apostles' Times Some who Preached the ...
... at all of drawing out heretical impiety from its caverns, but that the catholic
tongue should deviate from the straight path of truth; more tolerable were it ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against lying/section 16 for there were.htm

The Prophets were Sent from one and the Same Father from whom the ...
... and similar sins, will bring on the day of judgment at the end of time (in novissimo);
on which day He declares that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxxvi the prophets were sent.htm

But if Moreover any not Having Charity, which Pertaineth to the ...
... denying Christ he should suffer none of these things, which he did suffer by confessing
Him: but we must account that it will perhaps be more tolerable for him ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on patience /23 but if moreover any.htm

Opposition to Jesus.
... sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre
and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. And thou ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter xx opposition to jesus.htm

"The Last Things"
... Where they are of value, their benefit consists either in obtaining a full
forgiveness or, at least, in making damnation more tolerable. 111. ...
/.../augustine/handbook on faith hope and love/chapter xxix the last things.htm

That the Self-Existent Being must be a Free Agent.
... acted upon. Without liberty, nothing can, in any tolerable propriety of
speech, be said to be an agent, or cause of any thing. For ...
/.../ix proposition ix that the.htm

Mission and Return of the Seventy.
... [For comment, see pp.362-365.] 12 I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable in
that day for Sodom, than for that city.13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/lxxxiii mission and return of.htm

The Unrepentant Cities.
... But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of
judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/barton/his life/the unrepentant cities.htm

The Passages in which the Saviour Declares that There Shall be a ...
... which had not believed, and while setting them in unfavorable comparison with foreign
cities, says, "But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 5 the passages in which.htm

Superiors Ought Carefully to Examine the Dispositions of those ...
... If by the severity of laws and constitutions they may come to be kept in some tolerable
order, yet this reaches only to the exterior, and lasts no longer than ...
/.../chapter viii superiors ought carefully.htm

Thesaurus

Tolerable (6 Occurrences)
... not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust,
resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a ...
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Sodom (49 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land
of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. ...
/s/sodom.htm - 28k

Judgment-day (4 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrha in judgment-day than for that city. (DBY). ...
/j/judgment-day.htm - 7k

Nevertheless (153 Occurrences)
... Nevertheless (153 Occurrences). Matthew 11:22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. (See NAS). ...
/n/nevertheless.htm - 37k

Gomorrha (5 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. (KJV DBY). ...
/g/gomorrha.htm - 8k

Gomorrah (25 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land
of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. ...
/g/gomorrah.htm - 17k

Bearable (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
Multi-Version Concordance Bearable (1 Occurrence). Matthew ...
/b/bearable.htm - 6k

Judgment (430 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land
of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. ...
/j/judgment.htm - 52k

Verily (146 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. ...
/v/verily.htm - 39k

Sidon (35 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Matthew 11:22 But I tell you, it
will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. ...
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Bible Concordance

Tolerable (6 Occurrences)

Matthew 10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Matthew 11:22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Matthew 11:24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Mark 6:11 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
(WEB KJV WBS YLT)

Luke 10:12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Luke 10:14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Tolerable

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Sodom (49 Occurrences)

Judgment-day (4 Occurrences)

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Gomorrha (5 Occurrences)

Gomorrah (25 Occurrences)

Bearable (1 Occurrence)

Judgment (430 Occurrences)