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The concept of doing something "regularly" in the Bible often pertains to the idea of consistency, faithfulness, and devotion in one's spiritual practices and daily life. The term itself may not appear frequently in the text, but the principle is woven throughout Scripture, emphasizing the importance of steadfastness in one's relationship with God and in the observance of His commandments.

Old Testament Context

In the Old Testament, the Israelites were instructed to observe certain practices regularly as part of their covenant relationship with God. For example, the offering of sacrifices was a regular duty. In Exodus 29:38-42, God commands the Israelites to offer two lambs a day, one in the morning and one at twilight, as a regular burnt offering. This daily sacrifice was a continual reminder of their dependence on God and their need for atonement.

The observance of the Sabbath is another example of regularity in worship. Exodus 20:8-10 states, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God." This weekly rhythm was established to ensure that the Israelites regularly set aside time for rest and worship, acknowledging God's creation and provision.

New Testament Context

In the New Testament, the early church is depicted as engaging in regular practices of worship, fellowship, and prayer. Acts 2:42 describes the early believers: "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer." This verse highlights the regularity of their spiritual disciplines, which were foundational to their communal life and growth in faith.

The Apostle Paul, in his letters, often encourages believers to be regular in their spiritual practices. In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, he writes, "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." Here, the call to "pray without ceasing" suggests a life marked by regular, ongoing communication with God.

Spiritual Disciplines

Regularity in spiritual disciplines such as prayer, Bible study, and worship is emphasized throughout Scripture as a means of growing in faith and maintaining a close relationship with God. Jesus Himself modeled regular prayer, often withdrawing to solitary places to pray (Luke 5:16). His example underscores the importance of setting aside regular time for communion with the Father.

The Psalms also reflect a heart committed to regular worship and meditation on God's Word. Psalm 1:2 describes the blessed person as one whose "delight is in the law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night." This regular meditation is portrayed as a source of spiritual nourishment and stability.

Conclusion

The biblical principle of regularity in spiritual practices serves as a reminder of the importance of consistency and faithfulness in the believer's walk with God. Whether through daily prayer, weekly worship, or continual meditation on Scripture, regularity helps to cultivate a life that is rooted in and responsive to the divine will.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(adv.) In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.

Greek

3918a. paredreuo -- to sit constantly beside
... 3918, 3918a. paredreuo. 3918b . to sit constantly beside. Transliteration:
paredreuo Short Definition: regularly. Word Origin from ...
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2817. kleronomia -- an inheritance
... kleronomia Phonetic Spelling: (klay-ron-om-ee'-ah) Short Definition: an inheritance
Definition: an inheritance, an heritage, regularly the gift of God to His ...
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302. an -- usually untranslatable, but generally denoting ...
... in that case, anyhow), the general effect of which is to make a statement contingent,
which would otherwise be definite: it is thus regularly used with the ...
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264. hamartano -- to miss the mark, do wrong, sin
... due to . Like 266 , 264 () is regularly used in ancient times of an archer
missing the target (Homer, Aesch., etc). Every decision ...
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104. aei -- ever, unceasingly
... From an obsolete primary noun (apparently meaning continued duration); "ever,"by
qualification regularly; by implication, earnestly; --always, ever. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6726. Tsiyyon -- a mountain in Jer., also a name for Jer.
... Zion. The same (regularly) as tsiyuwn; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain
of Jerusalem -- Zion. see HEBREW tsiyuwn. 6725, 6726. Tsiyyon. 6727 . ...
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6805. tsaad -- to step, march
... A primitive root; to pace, ie Step regularly; (upward) to mount; (along) to march;
(down and causatively) to hurl -- bring, go, march (through), run over. ...
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6470. paam -- to thrust, impel
... move, trouble. A primitive root; to tap, ie Beat regularly; hence (generally) to
impel or agitate -- move, trouble. 6469, 6470. paam. 6471 . Strong's Numbers
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8548. tamid -- continuity
... 1), always (4), constantly (2), continual (26), continually (52), continuously
(2), ever (2), perpetual (1), regular (3), regular sacrifice (5), regularly (5). ...
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Library

Letter viii. Public and Social Worship, and Sabbath Employments.
... It brings people of the same community regularly together, every week, for the
same general purpose. In the house of God all meet upon a level. ...
/.../letter viii public and social.htm

Association
... I do not ask whether you pay your subscriptions regularly or not" that is quite
right and necessary, but there is something more than that wanted to make a ...
/.../kingsley/twenty-five village sermons/sermon xx association.htm

Though These Eternal Moral Obligations are Indeed of Themselves ...
... he cannot but expect should, in obedience to his supreme authority, as well as in
compliance with the natural reason of things, be regularly and constantly ...
/.../ii proposition ii though these.htm

Chapter ii
... The "work" that He desisted from is described by the term mela'khah, meaning a special
task He had set for Himself and afterward "used regularly of the work or ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter ii.htm

An Account of the General Conference of 1800
... nor to preach as often as usual, and therefore had been obliged to take with him
a traveling companion, that the appointments might be regularly filled " and ...
/.../chapter 4 an account of.htm

Caught Unawares
... announcements, the elderly lady said: "This meeting will be continued for three
weeks or more, and we want as many of you as can to attend regularly; for there ...
/.../byrum/how john became a man/chapter ix caught unawares.htm

His Arrival in his Native Land and the virtues Practised There ...
... In answer Ignatius said, "One is enough for me." However, as soon as he began
to teach, many came regularly, his brother among the number. ...
/.../loyola/the autobiography of st ignatius/chapter viii his arrival in.htm

Baptism of Daniel.
... its truths well. The Missionaries had established a school in Singonahully,
and visited it regularly to examine the boys. At these ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/hodson/old daniel/chapter eighteen baptism of daniel.htm

Vanished Hopes
... Without, the Romans planted scaling ladders, mounted them and were pitched
backward into the moat regularly. Regularly, the ladders ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xxii vanished hopes.htm

Appendix vi
... one and the same community, variations in this practice lasted for quite a long
time," and lastly, "because the conception of what should be regularly read at ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/harnack/the origin of the new testament/appendix vi.htm

Thesaurus

Regularly (30 Occurrences)
...Regularly (30 Occurrences). ... Exodus 29:38 Now this is the offering which you are to
make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly. ...
/r/regularly.htm - 15k

Transport (18 Occurrences)
... with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats
of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by ...
/t/transport.htm - 12k

Coats (29 Occurrences)
... with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats
of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by ...
/c/coats.htm - 14k

Alternate (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the
members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every ...
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Metal (69 Occurrences)
... with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats
of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by ...
/m/metal.htm - 30k

Regular (95 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 14:32 This is the law for him in whom is the sore of leprosy, whose hand
cannot get what is regularly prescribed in his cleansing. (Root in DBY NIV). ...
/r/regular.htm - 37k

Robes (124 Occurrences)
... with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats
of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by ...
/r/robes.htm - 39k

Vulgate
... The word "Vulgate" comes from the adjective or participle vulgata which usually
accompanied editio, and meant at first current or regularly used text. ...
/v/vulgate.htm - 38k

Omega (3 Occurrences)
... xix0.645; xxx0.89; Prudentius, Cathem., ix.10-12. In Patristic and later
literature the phrase is regularly applied to the Son. ...
/o/omega.htm - 9k

Orderly (8 Occurrences)
... regulated. 4. (a.) Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. 5. (adv.)
According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. 6 ...
/o/orderly.htm - 9k

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Regularly (30 Occurrences)

Acts 2:46
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
(BBE)

Acts 10:2
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
(See NIV)

1 Corinthians 9:13
Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
(See NAS)

Hebrews 9:6
Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
(See NIV)

Exodus 29:38
Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly.
(BBE NIV)

Exodus 29:42
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
(See NIV)

Exodus 30:8
When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 14:32
This is the law for him in whom is the sore of leprosy, whose hand cannot get what is regularly prescribed in his cleansing.
(DBY)

Leviticus 24:8
Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
(BBE NIV)

Judges 6:5
For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 9:7
David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You shall eat bread at my table continually."
(See NAS)

2 Samuel 9:10
You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, and your servants; and you shall bring in the fruits, that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
(See NAS)

2 Samuel 9:13
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet.
(See NAS)

1 Kings 10:25
And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.
(BBE)

2 Kings 3:4
Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.
(BBE)

2 Kings 12:9
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.
(BBE)

2 Kings 12:11
And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,
(BBE)

2 Kings 25:29
and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 16:6
and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 16:37
So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required;
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 16:40
to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which he commanded to Israel;
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 23:31
At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord;
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 2:4
See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 9:24
And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses and beasts for transport, regularly year by year.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 24:11
It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
(See NIV)

Ezra 6:9
And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:
(BBE)

Job 1:4
His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 52:33
and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 39:14
They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
(See NIV)

Daniel 1:16
So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain.
(BBE)

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