Topic
Reprobate
9 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Hebrews 6:8Easton · ISBE
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
- Jeremiah 6:30Easton
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27Easton
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5–7Easton
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;…
- 2 Corinthians 13:5ISBE
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
- 2 Corinthians 13:6ISBE
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
- 2 Corinthians 13:7ISBE
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
- 2 Timothy 3:8ISBE
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
- Titus 1:16ISBE
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
That which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jer. 6:30; Heb. 6:8; Gr. adokimos, “rejected”). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have failed to make use of opportunities offered them (1 Cor. 9:27; 2 Cor. 13:5-7).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
The close phonetic resemblance and etymological affinity of dokimos to the verb dokimazo, "to try," "test," has caused the notion of "being tested," "tried," and its opposite of "being found wanting in the test" to associate itself more or less distinctly with the adjectives dokimos and adokimos. Thus the more complex meaning results of that which is acknowledged or rejected, because it has approved or not approved itself in testing. This connotation is present in 2Co 13:5,6,7; 2Ti 3:8; Tit 1:16; Heb 6:8. In the first two of these passages the word is used of Christians who ostensibly were in the true faith, but either hypothetically or actually are represented as having failed to meet the test. "Reprobate unto every good work" (Tit 1:16) are they who by their life have disappointed the expectation of good works. The "reprobate (rejected) land" of Heb 6:8 is land that by bearing thorns and thistles has failed to meet the test of the husband man. It should be noticed, however, that adokimos, even in these cases, always retains the meaning of rejection because of failure in trial; compare in the last-named passage: "rejected and nigh unto cursing."
LITERATURE.
Cremer, Biblisch-theologisches Worterbuch der neutestamentlichen Gracitat(10), 356-57.
Geerhardus Vos
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); 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.