Wrong (Noun and Verb), Wrongdoer, Wrongdoing
Wrong (Noun and Verb), Wrongdoer, Wrongdoing
a, negative, dike, “right,” is translated “wrong” in 2Pe 2:13 (2nd part), 2Pe 2:15, RV, “wrongdoing” (AV, unrighteousness); in 2Co 12:13, it is used ironically. See INIQUITY, UNJUST, UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
denotes “a misdeed, injury,” in the concrete sense (in contrast to No. 1), Act 18:14, “a matter of wrong;” Act 24:20, RV, “wrongdoing” (AV, “evil doing”). See INIQUITY.
“to do wrong,” is used (a) intransitively, to act unrighteously, Act 25:11, RV, “I am a wrongdoer” (AV, “… an offender”); 1Co 6:8; 2Co 7:12 (1st part); Col 3:25 (1st part); cp. Rev 22:11 (see UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, B); (b) transitively, “to wrong,” Mat 20:13; Act 7:24 (Passive Voice), Act 7:26-27; Act 25:10; 2Co 7:2, 2Co 7:12 (2nd part; Passive Voice); Gal 4:12, “ye did (me no) wrong,” anticipating a possible suggestion that his vigorous language was due to some personal grievance; the occasion referred to was that of his first visit; Col 3:25 (2nd part), lit., “what he did wrong,” which brings consequences both in this life and at the judgment seat of Christ; Phm 1:18; 2Pe 2:13 (1st part); in the Middle or Passive Voice, “to take or suffer wrong, to suffer (oneself) to be wronged,” 1Co 6:7. See HURT, OFFENDER, UNJUST.