'Assume' in the Bible
“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
"When any of you fast, never assume gloomy looks as the hypocrites do; for they disfigure their faces in order that it may be evident to men that they are fasting. I solemnly tell you that they already have their reward.
Don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place."
For these [men] are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day.
but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man].
Not many [of you] should become teachers [serving in an official teaching capacity], my brothers and sisters, for you know that we [who are teachers] will be judged by a higher standard [because we have assumed greater accountability and more condemnation if we teach incorrectly].
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- Accept (176 instances)
- Acquire (44 instances)
- Adopt (6 instances)
- Appropriate (93 instances)
- Assume (14 instances)
- Bear (470 instances)
- Believe (267 instances)
- Demand (66 instances)
- Dissemble (2 instances)
- Don (1 instance)
- Feign (11 instances)
- Presume (12 instances)
- Seize (130 instances)
- Sham (3 instances)
- Strike (221 instances)
- Suppose (86 instances)
- Usurp (2 instances)
- Wear (83 instances)