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G1384 names approved after testing, describing someone or something shown to be genuine, acceptable, and not disqualified. Readers often come to this word asking about approved worker, rightly handling the word of truth, tested faithfulness, and ministry integrity.
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G1384 names approved after testing, describing someone or something shown to be genuine, acceptable, and not disqualified. Readers often come to this word asking about approved worker, rightly handling the word of truth, tested faithfulness, and ministry integrity.
The BSB source-word alignment has 7 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include approved (4), are approved (1), stood the test (1), to have stood the test (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 14:18. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Corinthians (2), Romans (2), 1 Corinthians (1), 2 Timothy (1).
G1384 names approved after testing, describing someone or something shown to be genuine, acceptable, and not disqualified. Readers often come to this word asking about approved worker, rightly handling the word of truth, tested faithfulness, and ministry integrity. In the Pastoral Epistles, the word must be read inside the sentence, the paragraph, and the local charge to Timothy or Titus before it becomes a broader teaching category.
This companion keeps the search question useful while refusing to let a search term control the text. It helps shepherds, teachers, leaders, churches, groups, families, and disciples ask what the passage is actually doing, how the word serves the book argument, and how the gospel governs the application. It also guards against mistaking public platform, speed, or confidence for approval before God.
The aim is not to create a shortcut around Scripture but to make the word a doorway back into Scripture with clearer questions and better boundaries.
Approved; tested and accepted matters for readers because it opens the difference between human applause and being approved before God as a faithful worker.
For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
The one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
Testing reveals those who are approved.
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
The worker seeks to present himself approved to God by rightly handling the word of truth.
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. Approved through testing; of metals proven genuine, applied to persons and faith proven worthy.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
7 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
approved, acceptable
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Showing 2 selected witnesses from 7 lexical occurrence verses.
δόκιμος is built from this root:
The minister's aim is God's approval through faithful teaching rather than human recognition. 2 Timothy 2:14-19
Teach G1384 by starting with the local passage and the burden that caused the word to matter there. The entry opens the difference between human applause and being approved before God as a faithful worker. A faithful teacher should define the word plainly, show how the immediate context uses it, and then move carefully to related witnesses without pretending that one word proves every doctrine attached to the subject.
This matters for end users who may search for approved worker, rightly handling the word of truth, tested faithfulness, and ministry integrity but need more than a dictionary answer. The word should bring them back to Christ, the gospel, the household of God, and the obedience Scripture calls for. It corrects performance-driven ministry that neglects accurate handling of the word of truth.
Keep the tone clear and sober: enough definition to orient the reader, enough canonical connection to deepen trust, and enough restraint to avoid making the word say more than the passage says.
Rom.14.18
The adjective carries the idea of tested genuineness. In 2 Timothy 2 it is applied to the worker standing before God.
Use the Old Testament and wider canonical background only where the cited passages or the local lexicon artifact warrant it. The Pastoral Epistles remain the controlling entry point for this batch.
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