Bible Dictionary: Tolerance

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The capacity of enduring; forbearance of the differences of others.

2. (n.) The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

3. (n.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.

Greek

463. anoche -- a delaying, forbearance
... judgment . Word Origin from anecho Definition a delaying, forbearance NASB
Word Usage forbearance (1), tolerance (1). forbearance. ...
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430. anecho -- to hold up, bear with
... Word Origin from ana and echo Definition to hold up, bear with NASB Word Usage bear
(3), bearing (2), endure (3), put (4), showing tolerance (1), tolerate (2). ...
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Topical Bible Verses

2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
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Acts 10:34-35
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
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Hebrews 12:1
Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also said the law.
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Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
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Library

Tolerance. March 16.
... Tolerance. March 16. If we really love God and long to do good and work
for God, if we really love our neighbours and wish to help ...
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To Her Spiritual Children in Siena
... The second repeats her familiar warning against a critical temper, and her favourite
plea for that generous tolerance which puts the highest possible ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to her spiritual children in.htm

The Lonely Defender of the Bible
... But a paper on "Polemics and Tolerance" which he read at another convention
two years later kept his listeners wide awake. "Our ...
/.../aaberg/hymns and hymnwriters of denmark/chapter twelve the lonely defender.htm

A Summary of Israel's Faithlessness and God's Patience
... the land; namely, that they were to enter into no entangling alliances with the
remnant of the inhabitants, and especially to have no tolerance for their ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a summary of israels faithlessness.htm

Christianity
... faith in the supernatural and miraculous; the churches which have swung the doors
wide open on the hinges of worldly wisdom and easy tolerance; the churches ...
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A Good Man's Faults
... Liberality is exaggerated into prodigality; firmness, into obstinacy; mercy, into
weakness; gravity, into severity; tolerance, into feeble conviction; humility ...
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St. Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters
... poor mortals. And perhaps the very frequency of her plea for tolerance
and forbearance suggests a conscious weakness. Like most ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/st catherine of siena as.htm

The Symbols of the Republic.
... an unjust prejudice or a spiteful calumny, but it shames the source more than the
object, and soon dies away in the atmosphere of tolerance and investigation. ...
/.../chapin/humanity in the city/discourse iv the symbols of.htm

Christian Cemeteries.
... The responsibility for the persecutions which took place in the first century must
be attributed to them, not to the Romans, whose tolerance in religious ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter vii christian cemeteries.htm

Connecticut at the Close of the Revolution
... His tolerance, however, was more for the old Calvinistic principles in the New Divinity,
and not for its advanced features, for which he had little regard. ...
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Thesaurus

Tolerance (2 Occurrences)
... ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. Multi-Version Concordance
Tolerance (2 Occurrences). Romans 2:4 Or do you despise ...
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Charity (29 Occurrences)
... Ultimate Ideal 9. Almsgiving 10. Tolerance In the King James Version in 26
places from 1 Corinthians 8:1 onward. The same Greek word ...
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Purity (16 Occurrences)
... Pioneers the world over and through time, for very self-preservation's
sake, could show little favor or tolerance to lawlessness. ...
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Tolerable (6 Occurrences)

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Tolerate (8 Occurrences)

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Narrow-minded (1 Occurrence)
... Narrowly, Narrow-minded. Narrowness . Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Lacking
tolerance; petty -- opposed to open minded; mean. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Joppa (14 Occurrences)
... At Joppa, in the house of Simon the tanner, "by the sea-side," Peter resided "many
days," and here, "on the house-top," he had his "vision of tolerance" (Acts 9 ...
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Luke (4 Occurrences)
... man;" "the Gospel of womanhood;" "the Gospel of the outcast, of the Samaritan, the
publican, the harlot, and the prodigal;" "the Gospel of tolerance." The main ...
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Allowance (11 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Approval; approbation. 2. (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding,
or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. ...
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Apocalyptic
... of the hands of the Ptolemies into that of the house of Seleucus, this feeling was
intensified, as the Syrian house regarded with less tolerance the religion ...
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Bible Concordance

Tolerance (2 Occurrences)

Romans 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
(See NAS NIV)

Ephesians 4:2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Intolerance, Religious: Exemplified By of Idolatrous Religions

Religious Intolerance of Idolatrous Religions, Taught by Moses

Religious Intolerance: Exemplified by Cain

Religious Intolerance: Exemplified by Elijah

Religious Intolerance: Exemplified by James and John

Religious Intolerance: Exemplified by Jehu

Religious Intolerance: Exemplified by Joshua

Religious Intolerance: The Jewish Leaders in Persecuting Paul

Religious Intolerance: The Jewish Leaders in Persecuting Stephen

Religious Intolerance: The Jewish Leaders in Persecuting the Disciples