Peripoiesis can name obtaining, possession or preservation, with each sentence specifying what is received or kept. Its five New Testament witnesses speak of obtaining salvation through Jesus Christ, sharing His glory, the redemption of God's possession, a people belonging to God and faith that preserves the soul.
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Peripoiesis can name obtaining, possession or preservation, with each sentence specifying what is received or kept. Its five New Testament witnesses speak of obtaining salvation through Jesus Christ, sharing His glory, the redemption of God's possession, a people belonging to God and faith that preserves the soul.
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include [God’s] possession (1), obtain (1), possession (1), preserve (1), you may share in (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Ephesians 1:14. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1), 1 Thessalonians (1), 2 Thessalonians (1), Ephesians (1).
Peripoiesis can name obtaining, possession or preservation, with each sentence specifying what is received or kept. Its five New Testament witnesses speak of obtaining salvation through Jesus Christ, sharing His glory, the redemption of God's possession, a people belonging to God and faith that preserves the soul. Ephesians places the possession language beside the Spirit's pledge and praise of God's glory.
First Peter gives the people a purpose: proclaiming the virtues of the One who called them into light, following the declaration that they have received mercy. Hebrews encourages perseverance after costly solidarity and loss, rather than presenting preservation as a technique for securing possessions. The noun cannot make salvation a purchase, reduce God's people to property controlled by a leader or promise freedom from suffering.
It holds gracious belonging and persevering hope within the Christ-centered grounds each passage supplies.
Five direct BSB noun witnesses concern obtaining salvation, sharing Christ's glory, God's possession and persevering preservation. The particular object, Spirit pledge, received mercy and encouragement in Christ prevent one commercial meaning from controlling the range.
For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Obtaining salvation is through the Lord Jesus Christ who died for believers, and the paragraph ends by calling them to encourage one another.
To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God's call through the gospel leads to sharing Christ's glory, within thanksgiving and prayer for strengthened hearts and good deeds.
Who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
The BSB describes redemption of God's possession beside the Spirit as inheritance pledge and the praise of His glory.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
The people belong to God for the purpose of proclaiming His virtues, and the next verse names their reception of mercy.
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
The preservation language encourages faith after remembered solidarity, suffering and property loss; it does not promise uninterrupted material security.
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Greek word. Possession acquired through God's deliberate action; emphasizes both the obtaining and treasured preservation of what belongs to Him
Possession acquired through God's deliberate action; emphasizes both the obtaining and treasured preservation of what belongs to Him
(περιποιέω), [in LXX: 2Ch.4:13 (12) (מִחְיָה) Mal.3:17 (סְגֻלָּה), Hag.2:10 (9) * ;]
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
5 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
obtaining, possessing, possession
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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 2 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.
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First Peter places belonging beside purpose and mercy. The people are God's own possession so that they may proclaim the virtues of the One who called them into light, and they are reminded that they have received mercy. Their belonging cannot become a claim that one leader owns another person's choices or access to help. Ephesians similarly locates the future within redemption and the Spirit's pledge, while the Thessalonian letters center salvation and glory in Jesus Christ.
Hebrews' preservation language speaks to readers who have already endured suffering and the loss of property. It cannot promise an untouched life or make every new distress a failure of faith. Teaching peripoiesis should strengthen gracious belonging and patient perseverance, encouraging people to support one another. The noun's range must serve these stated arguments instead of a transaction in which people purchase security by compliance.
1Pet.2.9
Peripoiesis is a feminine noun with genitive and accusative forms in these witnesses. The construction and object distinguish possession, obtaining and preservation; a grammatical ending alone cannot decide the full salvation argument or turn the word into a commercial bargain.
Exodus 19:1-6 names Israel as a treasured possession after the account of God's rescue, and Malachi 3:13-18 speaks of His treasured people within a warning against calling service futile. These contexts support careful belonging language without erasing their particular audiences or adding Greek noun occurrences.