Topic
Advantage
6 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 35:3ISBE
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
- Romans 3:1ISBE
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
- 2 Corinthians 2:11ISBE
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- 2 Corinthians 7:2ISBE
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
- 2 Corinthians 12:17ISBE
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
- Jude 1:16ISBE
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
ad-van'-taj (cakhan): In Job 35:3 is interpreted in succeeding clause as "profit." In Ro 3:1 perissos, is likewise interpreted by a paraphrase in the next sentence. the Revised Version (British and American) prefers to render pleonekteo by "take advantage," where the King James Version has "defraud" (2Co 7:2), or "make gain of" (2Co 12:17; compare 2Co 2:11). In Jude 1:16 "advantage" (opheleia) means "profit."
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.