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G505 describes what is sincere, genuine, and not staged behind a mask. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone.
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G505 describes what is sincere, genuine, and not staged behind a mask. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include sincere (2), . . . (1), [and] sincere (1), a sincere (1), must be sincere (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 12:9. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1), 1 Timothy (1), 2 Corinthians (1), 2 Timothy (1).
G505 describes what is sincere, genuine, and not staged behind a mask. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone. It modifies love, faith, wisdom, and spiritual life. The word presses beneath visible religious action to ask whether the heart, conscience, speech, and conduct agree before God.
This companion therefore treats the word as a Scripture-governed guide, not as a shortcut around exegesis. It helps teachers distinguish weak but honest faith from polished religious performance. It should help readers ask better questions of the passage: who is speaking or acting, what covenant or gospel reality is in view, and how the surrounding context limits or strengthens the claim.
Sincerity is not the same as doctrinal accuracy by itself, emotional intensity, or flawless maturity.
G505 appears where Scripture requires love, faith, wisdom, and ministry that are not performed.
Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
Sincere love must detest evil and cling to good, so sincerity includes moral clarity.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
The goal of instruction is love from a pure heart, clear conscience, and sincere faith.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
Genuine brotherly love flows from purified souls and obedience to the truth.
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
Wisdom from above is sincere, free from hidden double agendas.
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Greek word. genuine
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
6 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
unfeigned, without hypocrisy
Read verseunfeigned, without hypocrisy
Read verseunfeigned, without hypocrisy
Read verseunfeigned, without hypocrisy
Read verseunfeigned, without hypocrisy
Read verseunfeigned, without hypocrisy
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 4 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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ἀνυπόκριτος is built from these roots:
True faith is not external conformity but authentic trust in Christ that reshapes the inner person and produces visible love. 1 Timothy 1:3-7
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Teach G505 as an exposure of spiritual performance without crushing weak believers. A faithful teacher should begin with the nearest passage, observe who acts, what is being named, what problem or promise is in view, and what response the text calls for, then move carefully to related passages. The word helps a class or congregation examine whether love, faith, and wisdom are whole-hearted before God rather than managed for reputation.
The entry should help readers read Scripture more carefully, not replace the work of tracing the sentence, paragraph, book, and covenant setting. This keeps the word useful for shepherds, teachers, leaders, groups, families, and disciples without letting the word carry claims that belong to the whole passage or canon.
Rom.12.9
The form carries the idea of being unhypocritical. It describes quality of character or action rather than intensity of emotion.
The Old Testament rejects double-hearted worship and calls for truth in the inward being; G505 gives New Testament language for that integrity.
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