Lexicon :: Strong's G2070 - esmen

“What is your name? ” he asked him.

“My name is Legion,” he answered him, “because we are many.”

Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to him, “Send the crowd away, so that they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

“In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we’ve only done our duty.’ ”

“We are descendants[fn] of Abraham,” they answered him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’? ”

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’s disciples.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, “We aren’t blind too, are we? ”

“I and the Father are one.”

“I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.

“God has raised this Jesus; we are all witnesses of this.

“You killed the source[fn] of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

“We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

“We ourselves are witnesses of everything he did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, and yet they killed him by hanging him on a tree.

“People! Why are you doing these things? We are people also, just like you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

But Paul called out in a loud voice, “Don’t harm yourself, because we’re all here! ”

“For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

“So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you[fn] as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!

So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For we are God’s coworkers.[fn] You are God’s field, God’s building.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, since all of us share the one bread.

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

just as you have partially understood us ​— ​that we are your reason for pride, just as you also are ours in the day of our[fn] Lord Jesus.

I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your faith.

For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many.[fn] On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

It is not that we are competent in[fn] ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.

Let such a person consider this: What we are in our letters, when we are absent, we will also be in our actions when we are present.

And I hope you will recognize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Now you too, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of a slave but of the free woman.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

since we are members of his body.[fn]

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh ​— ​

For you are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.[fn]

For we also have received the good news just as they did. But the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith.[fn]

By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the love of God is made complete. This is how we know we are in him:

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he appears,[fn] we will be like him because we will see him as he is.

This is how we will know that we belong to the truth and will reassure our hearts before him

We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.