Topic
Benefit
7 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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.
- 2 Chronicles 32:25ISBE
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
- Psalms 68:19ISBE
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
- Psalms 103:2ISBE
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
- Jeremiah 18:10ISBE
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
- 2 Corinthians 1:15ISBE
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
- 1 Timothy 6:2ISBE
And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
- Philemon 1:14ISBE
But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
ben'-e-fit (gemul = "a deed," 2Ch 32:25); yaTabh = (causat.) "to make well," "to do good" (Jer 18:10). The plural of gemul, is found is found in Ps 103:2. Ps 68:19 (the King James Version) should be translated "Blessed be the Lord. Day by day he sustains us; God is our salvation." charis = "gift"; "grace" (2Co 1:15, "a second benefit": that is, two visits in the same journey). euergesia = "good deed done" (1Ti 6:2: "because they that partake of the benefit (of their service) are believing and beloved"); agathos = "good" (Philemon 1:14, the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) "goodness").
Frank E. Hirsch
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.