(from , ‘grace’) is translated ‘made accepted’ in the A.V. in Eph 1:6; “made accepted in the beloved,” where the sense is, ‘taken into favour,’ or ‘made objects of grace.’ It has been said that “accepted is too formal a doctrine here.” The only other occurrence of is in Luk 1:28, where the angel declared Mary to be the ‘highly favoured’ one, or, as in the margin, ‘graciously accepted, or much graced.’<\/p>\n
(lit. ‘well-pleasing,’ from , ‘well,’ and , ‘to please’) signifies ‘acceptable’ to God, Rom 14:18; ‘agreeable’ to the Lord, Eph 5:10; ‘well-pleasing’ to Him, Col 3:20. These passages show that the translation “we may be accepted of him,” in 2Co 5:9, is incorrect: it should be “agreeable to him.”<\/p>\n
implies that God has brought the believer into favour. in the passages quoted, applies to that which is acceptable, or well-pleasing, to God: cf. Rom 12:1-2; Rom 14:18; Heb 13:21, as of conduct, etc<\/p>\n
(lit. ‘acceptable,’ from , ‘to accept’) is another word rendered both ‘accepted’ and ‘acceptable’ in the A.V. It is associated with in Php 4:18, where they are translated “acceptable (.), well-pleasing (.) to God.” It has nearly the same force as , and should be rendered ‘acceptable’ in Luk 4:24; Act 10:35; and 2Co 6:2<\/p>\n
18. ACCEPTED. ACCEPTABLE (from , ‘grace’) is translated ‘made accepted’ in the A.V. in Eph 1:6; “made accepted in the beloved,” where the sense is, ‘taken into favour,’ or ‘made objects of grace.’ It has been said that “accepted is too formal a doctrine here.” The only other occurrence of is in Luk 1:28, where … Continue reading “18. ACCEPTED. ACCEPTABLE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}