Dictionary: Face
Synonyms: countenance, physiognomy, profile, features, expression, facial expression, look, appearance, air, manner, bearing, guise, cast, aspect, impression, grimace, scowl, wry face, wince, frown, glower, smirk, pout, moue, side, flank, vertical, surface, plane, facet, wall, elevation, dial, display, (outward) appearance, nature, image, front, show, act, false front, facade, exterior, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage, respect, honour, esteem, regard, admiration, approbation, acclaim, approval, favour, appreciation, popularity, estimation, veneration, awe, reverence, deference, recognition, prestige, standing, status, dignity, glory, kudos, cachet, effrontery, audacity, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, look out on, front on to, look towards, be facing, have/afford/command a view of, look over/across, open out over, look on to, overlook, give on to, give over, be opposite (to), accept, come to accept, become reconciled to, reconcile oneself to, reach an acceptance (of), get used to, become accustomed to, adjust to, accommodate oneself to, acclimatize oneself to, be confronted by, be faced with, encounter, experience, come into contact with, run into, come across, meet, come up against, be forced to contend with, beset, worry, distress, cause trouble to, trouble, bother, confront, burden, brave, face up to, meet head-on, dare, defy, oppose, resist, withstand, cover, clad, skin, overlay, dress, pave, put a facing on, laminate, inlay, plate, coat, line
Antonyms: dodge, fear, back, give way, back down, dodge, avoid, throw in the towel, withdraw, cave in, retreat, succumb to, lay down one's arms, throw in the sponge, defer, submit, escape, bashfulness, shun, evade, elude
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76. Love the Lord Your God
Deuteronomy 6:1-25
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Christopher J. H. Wright
... committed, covenantal response to Yahweh was to be total: with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. The wholeness, or oneness, of Yahweh (v. 4) is to be met with a response involving the wholeness of the human person (v. 5). The expression “heart and soul” is another characteristic Deuteronomic phrase (seen in 4:29; 10:12; 11:13; 13:3; 26:16; 30:2, 6, 10). The heart (lēbāb) in Hebrew was not so much the seat of emotions and feelings—as it is in English metaphors—as ...
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John Goldingay
... and faithful. Forsaken and spurned also describe the actions of a child abandoning its parents and their teaching. Those who have turned their backs are people who behave like strangers to their family; the related word for stranger/foreigner comes twice in verse 7. Isaiah expresses the indignation and hurt of Yahweh as the father or mother who has been rejected and despised by his or her children (see Hos. 11). The one they have spurned is the Holy One of Israel: this is the book’s distinctive title for ...
78. Worship and Humility
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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Preben Vang
... removal of the divisions (schismata) goes to the heart of this issue of equality in the Christ community (Gal. 3:28). to some extent I believe it. This somewhat difficult statement does not suggest that Paul considers this might be a rumor. Rather, it is an expression of outrage, like saying, “This is unbelievable—I can’t believe you are doing this.”2 11:19–21a  there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval. On the surface it seems as if Paul speaks in favor ...
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Daniel J. Estes
... to bless him or to crush him, but not to leave him in the miserable condition he is in. Like Moses (Num. 11:15) and Elijah (1 Kings 19:4), he desires God to take his life, because that will provide great relief from his pain. However, he does not express the option of suicide but leaves his life in God’s hands. All that matters to Job is his integrity before God (6:10), and he does not want to get to the breaking point where he denies God. 6:14–15 Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend. Using ...
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Daniel J. Estes
... been guilty of adultery, then the fitting punishment for his sin is for his own wife to be sexually exploited by others. Job is not trying to shift the consequences of his sin onto his wife. Rather, he is so confident he is innocent of this charge that he expresses what would be the most humiliating punishment for a man in the ancient world to endure. 31:13–15  Did not he who made me in the womb make them? In the treatment of his slaves, Job has gone well beyond what is required in the Mosaic law (cf ...
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William Nelson
... 1:8–15). Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were cast into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down before the image (Dan. 3), and Daniel was thrown to the lions for praying to his God when it was forbidden (Dan. 6). So it is that persecution of the Jews is expressed or implied also in chapters 7–12 (Dan. 7:21, 25; 8:10–13; 9:26–27) and especially here in chapter 11, where martyrdom is explicit. The end will come when God determines it, at his appointed time (11:35; see also Dan. 8:17, 19; 10:14; 11 ...
82. Listening and Doing
James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18
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Peter H. Davids
... 5; Titus 3:5; 1 Pet. 1:3, 23; 1 John 3:9). This statement produces a startling contrast: Desire brings to birth, but it bears sin and death; God brings to birth redemption and life. Third, God does this new act of creation through the word of truth. This expression might at first glance be thought a reference to the creative word of God (Gen. 1) or to the veracity of all he says (e.g., Ps. 119:43), but surely in this passage something more is meant. What word in the New Testament era was more “the word of ...
83. Faith and Deeds
James 2:14-26, James 2:1-13
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Peter H. Davids
... wrote. Though the Shema was the beginning point for Christians in a pagan world (e.g., 1 Thess. 1:9), it was not the end point of faith. For the Jew as well, the Shema was not the end, for it led to keeping the law as an expression of faith. The fact that James cites the Shema may also be connected to his citation of Abraham in 2:21, for Abraham was believed in Judaism to have discovered and taught this truth that God is one, despite his pagan environment and persecution. See further R. N. Longenecker ...
84. Faith in the Son of God
1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 4:7-21
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Thomas F. Johnson
... our love for one another. The second result of love among Christians is that God’s love is made complete among us. The same expression was used in 2:5, and we face the same problem in understanding exactly what the author meant. Does his love (hē agapē autou ... reason for connecting loving God and keeping God’s commands, as he did in v. 2. He argues that love for God is expressed in obedience; that is how it is demonstrated. Jesus taught the same: “If you love me, you will obey what I command” (John ...
85. The Ear of the Heart
Philippians 2:5-11
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Dr. Ronald Love
... read about preaching. We will read about missions. We will read of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. We will read about who Jesus was, is, and is to be. And we have a Christological hymn that allows us to understand that and give it emotional expression. We have a hymn that shares with us the life and meaning of Jesus. Bobby McFerrin is best known to us for his iconic 1988 feel-good hit song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Since then he has received ten Grammy Awards. McFerrin’s love of music ...
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Douglas J. Deuel
... by-product of life itself. Often it is only in the face of adversity or some challenging experience in life that we are able to see how blessed we have been. As we take inventory of our lives, we will recognize our blessings and be able to express appreciation for them. When we look at the world we live in, it can be easy to develop a pessimistic and cynical outlook. Every day the news trumpets the harsh realities of a world full of violence and turmoil. Disturbed individuals blow up a public building ...
87. Proper 22
Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9
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William E. Keeney
... think of other ways in which faith is shown. It can be in armed forces for security. It can be in a particular political order. It can be in the pursuit of pleasure or the attempt to retain youth, a kind of seeking physical immortality. All people express their faith. It is more important how their lives reflect where their faith is located than whether or not they have faith. 2. Confessions of Faith. The disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith. He did not give them a creed to recite. He did not set ...
88. The Mechanics Of Prayer
Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 11:1-13
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John R. Brokhoff
... God. Our bodies. One position of the body in prayer is kneeling. St. Paul knelt when he prayed, "I bow my knees before the Father" (Ephesians 3:14). At the end of his farewell message to the Ephesians "he knelt down with them all and prayed." When we kneel we express our humility. We kneel also when we want a favor. On our knees we plead and beseech, for we are desperate for help. Do you remember how you knelt before the girl asking her to marry you, or was this only in the good old days? When we kneel in ...
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David J. Williams
... on 2:38): it is not simply a change of heart, but such a change as enthrones God in the heart. Thus repentance and faith become almost synonymous (cf. 9:35; 11:21; 14:15; 15:19; 26:18, 20; 28:27). The promise that God will forgive sins is expressed by means of a striking figure: “to wipe out”—all trace of sin is removed. When God forgives, he forgets. Moreover, repentance opens the way to all the blessings of the kingdom of God, whether present or future (see notes on 1:3 and 2:17). Most commentators ...
90. Accusations
2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11
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James M. Scott
... of thlipsis in 2:4 is thus designed to recall Paul’s tribulation as described in the thanksgiving (1:3–11), then it is interesting to note that his suffering in Asia happened for the sake of the Corinthians (1:6). Thus, both forms of thlipsis become expressions of Paul’s love and concern for the church. Paul explicitly states that he did not write the tearful letter to grieve the Corinthians, although he is aware that it did temporarily grieve them (cf. 7:8–9); rather, he wrote in order to show his ...
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Arthur G. Patzia
... is quite clear that what was begun at baptism must be continued in the experience of the Christian. Baptism is the beginning of a new ethical way of life. Three important verbs govern 4:22–24. Put off and put on are both aorist infinitives and as such express a single act based on a past experience. The readers have put off (apothesthai) the old self and put on the new self at the time of their baptism. This is the indicative of their Christian life and forms the basis for the imperative to live out that ...
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Arthur G. Patzia
... have been rescued from the sphere of darkness dominated by evil powers and transferred into the realm of the victorious Son of God. The phrase kingdom of the Son he loves or the “kingdom of Christ,” is not common in the NT. Perhaps the apostle uses this expression to emphasize the present reality and sphere of their possession in Christ rather than the more common “kingdom of God,” which has a connotation of the future (1 Cor. 6:9; 15:50; Gal. 5:21; 2 Tim. 4:1, 18). Or, Paul simply may be preparing ...
93. Final Instructions
1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
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David J. Williams
... he wanted them all to hear it read. Notice the first person singular, “I charge you.” This is Paul speaking for himself, from his own heart and perhaps, at this point, holding the pen in his own hand (see disc. on 5:28; cf. also 2 Thess. 2:5). The expression is a strong one (enorkizō), “I put you on oath.” He is not swearing by the Lord (cf. Matt. 5:34) but appealing to his readers to act as though, in this matter, they were on oath to the Lord. Almost certainly the Lord is Jesus, as in verses 23 ...
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Norman Hillyer
... 1 Pet. 2:9; 2 Pet. 1:3, 5) develops in meaning. It is treated as a synonym for doxa (glory) in Isa. 42:8, 12 (LXX), and renders the Hebrew hōḏ (splendor) in Hab. 3:3 and, in a messianic context, in Zech. 6:13. Finally, aretē comes to express the manifestation of divine power, i.e., miracle, which is probably behind the meaning here in 2 Pet. 1:3. See Deissmann, Bible Studies, pp. 95–97; 360–68; BAGD; Turner, p. 339. 1:4 He has given, dedōrētai, is a Greek perfect tense, bringing out the permanence ...
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Cheryl A. Brown
... particularly by the phrase and has not listened to [sm’] me. If the nation would not hear, they were not his people. If they were not his people, God was no longer bound to care for them by driving out the Canaanites. While this repeats the idea expressed in 2:3, here a new element appears: the Lord (emphatic) will use the nations to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their forefathers did. Perhaps God was looking not for further proof of their disobedience ...
96. Let Him Kiss Me
Song of Songs 1:1-17
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Elizabeth Huwiler
... 1:7 and the man replying in 1:8 (although recent versions of the NIV, along with many interpreters, assign 1:8 to the friends instead of to the male lover). There is a double-entendre in 7a—b. Although the NIV adds your flock and your sheep, these expressions are not in the Hebrew. The second of the verbs (NIV rest) is a form ordinarily used with a direct object, although the Hebrew does not include one. Thus, the woman’s speech is halfway between asking the man where he grazes and rests, and asking him ...
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Tremper Longman III
... grief,” thus “heart” is the English idiom that is equivalent. God has pierced the seat of his emotions, thereby unleashing them. As the object of God’s violent rage, the man is reduced to helplessness. As such, those around him ridicule (mock) him. The psalmist often expressed the same consternation when his bad condition aroused the ridicule of those who saw him (Pss. 22:7; 69:12; 119:51). Job too felt humiliated by the mocking of people who saw him suffer (Job 30:1, 9). God has fed the man, but he ...
98. Thanksgiving and Prayer
Philippians 1:1-11
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F. F. Bruce
... He describes them as being in Christ Jesus. This indicates that those who believe in Christ are united to him: the new corporate life into which they have entered is their share in his resurrection life. The idea is much the same as that which Paul elsewhere expresses by speaking of believers as members of the body of Christ (cf. 1 Cor. 12:12f., 27; Rom. 12:4f.). Among those to whom the letter is sent special mention is made of the overseers and deacons. The Greek words so translated came later to have the ...
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F. F. Bruce
... church, the first mention of the name of Jesus was greeted by marks of homage—the bending of knees in his honor and the confession of his lordship. The congregation thus reflected on earth the continual worship presented in heaven. But the confidence is expressed that this worship is destined to be yet more widespread—that even those who at present refuse to acknowledge, by action or word, that Jesus is Lord, will one day render that acknowledgment. There is no tension in the NT between the lordship of ...
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F. F. Bruce
... that for which …: Gk. ei kai katalabō, “if indeed I may lay hold of …”; the use of ei (“if”) to introduce a clause of purpose is similar to that in v. 11, “in hope that …” (Gk. ei pōs). The antecedent of for which is not expressed in the original, and is probably something like “the purpose,” in keeping with eph’ hō, “with a view to which.” Christ Jesus took hold of me: Gk. katelēmphthēn hypo Christou Iēsou, “I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” The translator must find ...
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