Bible Dictionary: Unbeliever

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.

2. (n.) A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

UNBELIEVER

un-be-lev'-er: This word follows closely the lines of "unbelief" (which see) in its relation to originals. Once only (Acts 14:2) it represents the participle apeithountes, "disobeying (ones)." Elsewhere (nine cases) it represents apistos, "faithless," "without faith." In six of these passages (all in 1 and 2 Corinthians) it denotes the unconverted pagan as distinguished from the convert. In the other passages (Luke 12:46 Titus 1:15 Revelation 21:8) the reference is to the unbelief which comes of moral resistance to God.

Greek

571. apistos -- incredible, unbelieving
... Adjective Transliteration: apistos Phonetic Spelling: (ap'-is-tos) Short Definition:
unbelieving, incredulous, unchristian, unbeliever Definition: unbelieving ...
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Library

Whether Every Act of an Unbeliever is a Sin?
... OF UNBELIEF IN GENERAL (TWELVE ARTICLES) Whether every act of an unbeliever is a
sin? Objection 1: It would seem that each act of an unbeliever is a sin. ...
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The Unbeliever's Unhappy Condition
... The Unbeliever's Unhappy Condition. A Sermon (No.1012). Delivered on
Lord's-day Morning, September 24th, 1871, by. CH SPURGEON,. At ...
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Whether a Believer Can Marry an Unbeliever?
... OF DISPARITY OF WORSHIP AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO MARRIAGE (SIX ARTICLES) Whether
a believer can marry an unbeliever? Objection 1: It ...
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Whether the Husband, Being Converted to the Faith, May Remain with ...
... Objection 1: It would seem that when a husband is converted to the faith he cannot
remain with his wife who is an unbeliever and is unwilling to be converted ...
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Whether There Can be Despair Without Unbelief?
... to the Divine mercy and goodness, according to Gn.4:13: "My iniquity is greater
than that I may deserve pardon." Therefore whoever despairs, is an unbeliever. ...
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Whether a Believer Can, after his Conversion, Put Away his ...
... Since, then, the husband, when he married an unbeliever, knew that she was an
unbeliever, it would seem that in like manner he cannot put her away on account ...
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Whether There Can be Despair Without Unbelief
... the mercy or goodness of God, in accordance with Gen.4:13: "My punishment is greater
than I can bear." [67] Anyone who despairs is therefore an unbeliever. ...
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Whether Unbelievers May have Authority or Dominion Over the ...
... in the Epistle to the Philippians (4:22): "All the saints salute you, especially
they that are of Caesar's household," referring to Nero, who was an unbeliever ...
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Whether the First Movements of the Sensuality in Unbelievers are ...
... was so made that he was not liable to feel concupiscence." Now this liability seems
to be remitted to man by the grace of Baptism, which the unbeliever has not ...
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Whether Unbelief is the Greatest of Sin?
... Catholic ought to be preferred to a heretic, in whose life one finds nothing
reprehensible beyond the fact that he is a heretic." But a heretic is an unbeliever ...
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Thesaurus

Unbeliever (7 Occurrences)
...UNBELIEVER. un-be-lev'-er: This word follows closely the lines of "unbelief" (which
see) in its relation to originals. ...Unbeliever (7 Occurrences). ...
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Believer (15 Occurrences)
... If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him,
let him not send her away. ... Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever? ...
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Consent (34 Occurrences)
... If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with
him, let him not send her away. (Root in WEY DBY NAS RSV). ...
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Unbelievers (9 Occurrences)

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Unbelief (16 Occurrences)

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Yahweh (6653 Occurrences)
... Corinthians 3:13). To the unbeliever, the New Testament depicts it as
a day of terror; to the believer, as a day of joy. For on ...
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Unlearned (7 Occurrences)
... 14:16, 23, 24 for idiotes, "private person," the Revised Version margin "he that
is without gifts," correctly expresses the sense ("unbeliever" is hardly in ...
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Ungifted (3 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 14:24 If, on the other hand, every one is prophesying and an unbeliever
or an ungifted man comes in, he is convicted by all and closely examined ...
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Invitation (4 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 10:27 If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed
to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no questions for ...
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Bible Concordance

Unbeliever (7 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 7:12 To the rest it is I who speak--not the Lord. If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let him not send her away.
(WEY NAS RSV)

1 Corinthians 7:13 and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;
(See RSV)

1 Corinthians 7:15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
(WEB WEY DBY NIV)

1 Corinthians 10:27 If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no questions for conscience' sake.
(WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 14:24 If, on the other hand, every one is prophesying and an unbeliever or an ungifted man comes in, he is convicted by all and closely examined by all,
(WEY DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 6:15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
(WEB WEY ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Unbeliever

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Ungifted (3 Occurrences)

Invitation (4 Occurrences)

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