Unblemished (literally or figuratively)
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G299 is a Greek adjective meaning without blemish or fault. First Peter 1:19 describes Christ as a lamb without blemish or spot, drawing sacrificial language into the announcement of His precious redeeming blood.
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G299 is a Greek adjective meaning without blemish or fault. First Peter 1:19 describes Christ as a lamb without blemish or spot, drawing sacrificial language into the announcement of His precious redeeming blood.
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include blameless (3), unblemished (3), spice (1), without blemish (1), without fault (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Ephesians 1:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (2), Revelation (2), 1 Peter (1), Colossians (1).
G299 is a Greek adjective meaning without blemish or fault. First Peter 1:19 describes Christ as a lamb without blemish or spot, drawing sacrificial language into the announcement of His precious redeeming blood. Colossians 1:22 says God has reconciled formerly alienated people through Christ's physical body in death to present them holy, unblemished, and blameless before Him.
Philippians 2:15 calls believers to live as blameless and pure children of God who shine within a crooked generation, in the immediate setting of refusing grumbling and arguing. Other uses celebrate Christ's self-offering, God's eternal purpose for the church, truthful witness, and God's ability to present His people with joy. G299 opens teaching on Christ's sufficiency, reconciliation, holy vocation, and final presentation before God.
It corrects perfectionism, appearance management, and abuse that labels honest weakness, disability, scars, questions, or disclosed victimization as spiritual blemishes.
G299 applies sacrificially to Christ and ethically or eschatologically to God's people. The adjective can describe an offering without disqualifying defect, a community called to faithful conduct, or believers presented before God through reconciling grace. The agent and basis matter.
But with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
Believers are redeemed by Christ's precious blood, and He is described through the image of an unblemished and spotless lamb.
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
Christ's bodily death reconciles alienated people so that they may be presented holy, unblemished, and blameless before God.
So that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Believers are to live without fault and shine as lights by working out faithful obedience without grumbling or arguing.
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Greek word. Perfection acceptable to God; applied to Christ's sacrifice and believers' ultimate sanctification.
Perfection acceptable to God; applied to Christ's sacrifice and believers' ultimate sanctification.
(μῶμος, which see), [in LXX chiefly for תָּמִים ]; of sacrificial victims, without blemish: of Christ, Heb.9:14, 1Pe.1:19; etbically, unblemished, faultless: Eph.1:4 5:27, Php.2:15, Col.1:22, Ju 24, Rev.14:5 (Cremer, 425, 788; MM, VGT, see word).
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 6 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.
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ἄμωμος is built from these roots:
Echoes sacrificial language, emphasizing justification and final glorification secured by Christ.
Reflects covenant purity secured by Christ’s saving work.Jude 1:24–25
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G299 gathers sacrificial imagery, reconciling grace, and holy vocation without confusing them. Christ is the unblemished lamb whose precious blood redeems; the saving value rests in who He is and what He has done, not in the moral polish of those He rescues. Colossians makes that logic explicit. People once alienated and hostile are reconciled through Christ's physical death so that He may present them holy, unblemished, and blameless.
The future presentation is therefore a purpose and gift of reconciliation, not a reward for concealing struggle. Philippians uses the adjective within active discipleship. A community refusing corrosive grumbling and rivalry can shine as God's children in a distorted world. That call is serious, but it does not require pretending never to fail. Confession, correction, and repaired conduct serve blameless witness better than image management.
Jude's doxology finally places confidence in God, who is able to keep and present His people with joy. G299 should comfort consciences anchored in Christ while calling communities toward integrity. It must never be mapped onto appearance, disability, illness, sexual history, or trauma. Nor may institutions claim to be unblemished by suppressing evidence. The church's hope is not an untarnished brand but Christ's sufficient offering and God's faithful work of making a truthful, holy people.
Col.1.22
G299 combines a negative prefix with a term for blemish or blame. In sacrificial language it means without disqualifying defect; applied to people or communities it can mean faultless or blameless, with the surrounding theology specifying status, conduct, or final presentation.
Old Testament requirements for offerings without blemish provide sacrificial background for Christ's description, while calls to integrity and promises of God's preserving work shape the ethical and eschatological uses. The sacrificial category should not be transferred onto human appearance or social worth.