Reference: Conversation
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In the Bible, usually means the whole tenor of one's life, intercourse with his fellow men, Ga 1:13; Eph 4:22; 1Pe 1:15. Another word is employed in Php 3:20, which means, "our citizenship is in heaven." For conversation in modern sense of discourse, the English version generally has communication, 2Ki 9:11; Mt 5:37; Eph 4:29.
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But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but that which aboundeth more than these is of the evil one.
For you have heard of my life formerly in Judaism, that I was persecuting the church of God exceedingly, and destroying it:
that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;
Let no corrupt communication go forth out of your mouth, but if anything is good unto edification of need, in order that he may give grace to those who hear.
For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Easton
(1) generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Eph 2:3; 4:22; R.V., "manner of life"); one's deportment or course of life. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of verbal communication from one to another (Ps 50:23; Heb 13:5). In Php 1:27; 3:20, a different Greek word is used. It there means one's relations to a community as a citizen, i.e., citizenship.
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among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:
that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;
Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;
For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you;
Hastings
In English Version the word is always used in the archaic sense of 'behaviour,' 'conduct.' In the OT, AV gives it twice (Ps 37:14; 50:23), representing Heb. derek = 'way' (cf. RV and Revised Version margin). In the NT it is used in AV to render three sets of words. (1) The noun anastroph
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For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.
For you have heard of my life formerly in Judaism, that I was persecuting the church of God exceedingly, and destroying it:
among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:
that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;
Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;
For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you;
Remember your leaders, who spoke to you the word of God: the outgoing of whose deportment seeing, imitate their faith.
Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show forth out of beautiful conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.
Morish
This word is not used in scripture in the sense of familiar discourse. It occurs in the O.T. in Ps 37:14; 50:23, and refers to the walk; it reads in the margin 'the upright of way,' 'that disposeth his way.' In the N.T. the word ????????? has a similar sense of 'walk, conduct, behaviour,' Ga 1:13; Eph 4:22; 1Ti 4:12; and in all other passages except Php 1:27; and Php 3:20 (where it is ?????????, 'citizenship' which for the Christian is in heaven, separating him from citizenship on earth and its politics); and Heb.13:5, ??????, 'general manner of life.'
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For you have heard of my life formerly in Judaism, that I was persecuting the church of God exceedingly, and destroying it:
that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;
Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;
For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: