Man is composed partly of matter (body) and partly of non-material soul and spirit. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 1 Thessalonians 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 1Th iTh i Th) Christian Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools. Adverb from amemptos; faultlessly. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. They define spirit and soul as breath, blood, energy, life force etc. This sanctification (which is the special work of the Third Person) is here ascribed to the First Person of the Holy Trinity, from whom the Holy Ghost proceeds. The "spirit" (pneuma) is the part by which we apprehend realities intuitively--i.e., without reasoning upon them; with it we touch, see, serve, worship God (John 4:23-24; Romans 1:9; 1Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 1:10, et al. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: Leviticus 20:8,26 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you…. Spirit can refer to the sum of all character qualities: Patience of spirit vs. haughtiness of spirit: Eccl 7:8, stand fast in one spirit (purpose): Phil 1:27, his spirit stirred (motivated) within in; Acts 17:16, In the spirit (character) of Elijah: Lk 1:17, Spirit can refer to intelligent conscious being apart from the physical body: Lk 24:39, Jesus committed His Spirit into God's hands: Lk 23:46, The Holy Spirit is a "He" not an "It": Jn 16:12-14, Man has a spirit: Acts 7:59 (man is created in spiritual image of God, not physical image), Transfiguration had Elijah and Moses appear in spirit form: Mt 17:1-5, Jesus appeared twice after resurrection and disciples thought He was a ghost Mk 6:47-51, Jesus stood in disciples midst after raising & thought they were seeing a spirit Lk 24:36-39, Sadducees deny angel & spirit but Paul & Pharisees accept them: Acts 23:6-9. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 1 Thes. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Dead to sin joined to God: Rom 6:2,11; Gal 2:24, Dead to the Law of Moses, joined to Law of Christ: Rom 7:4; Gal 2:19, Carnalists quickly point out that both man and animals have "souls": Gen 1:30; Job 12:10, How can a corpse of a man be called a "soul" according to their narrow definitions? From hagios; to make holy, i.e. know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e.

And I pray God.--If there were need of any insertion, it should have been "We pray God:" Silas and Timothy are never forgotten throughout. Amen. Low-living men may have soul (i.e., intellect, affection, will) in abundance, but their spirit falls into complete abeyance (Jude 1:19); the soul belongs altogether to the lower nature, so that when St. Paul uses the two-fold division, "body and spirit," the soul is reckoned (not, probably, as Bishop Ellicott says on our present passage, as part of the spirit, but) as part of the body; and when St. Paul describes the "works of the flesh," he includes among them such distinctly soul-sins as "heresies" (Galatians 5:20). Body, flesh; the body of the Church. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Note on 1Corinthians 2:14.) Since the body and soul of the unsaved man or woman are bonded to the dead spirit of this present world, when this world's physical elements and spiritual components (including "Death") are cast into the lake of fire (see Revelation 20:13-15), those eternal souls, living or already dead, will perish with them. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

And it’s in the spirit that I’ve been totally changed and made just like Jesus. (Comp. Sanctify you wholly.--Rather, sanctify you whole. But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? I have to believe the Word and be obedient to … I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Num 19:13, Physical body: Mt 2:20; Lev 17:11; (Dead: Num 19:13), The immaterial invisible part of man separate from the physical life: Mt 10:28, The basic will: Mt 11:29; Jas 1:8; 4:8- "two-souled", Acts 4:32- "congregation was one soul". Romans 15:5,13,33 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: …. Verb - Aorist Optative Active - 3rd Person Singular. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. From teros; to guard, i.e. Hell is described as the second (spiritual) death: Rev 20:14-15 Our first spiritual death was when we first sinned and were separated from God. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. 1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. When Carnalists show you a verse to prove their definition of the word soul or spirit, their proof texts are usually interpreted correctly. Sanctification preserves all these three divisions entire, and in their due relation to each other; without sanctification, the spirit might be overwhelmed by the other parts gaining the predominance, which would, of course, eventually be the ruin both of "soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28. Abraham, Samuel, Moses & Lazarus live now, "carnalist" groups all hold this view: Jw's, Adventists, Plain Truth/Armstrong, Christadelphians. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, NT Letters: 1 Thessalonians 5:23 May the God of peace himself sanctify (1 Thess. (psyche) includes the intellect, the affections, and the will: and it is of the very essence of the gospel to force sharply upon men the distinction between it and the spirit (Hebrews 4:12). Simply agree to their definition in that verse then turn to the many verses where none of their definitions fit. I’ve come to know I’m a spirit being who has a soul and lives in a body. Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance ... And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.

The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. If a computer is smashed to pieces while it is running, its "life force" leaves it and it ceases to operate and exist as a computer. In, on, among. Those who believe Scripture teaches that man is a trichotomy see man as comprised of three distinct parts: body, soul, and spirit. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural.

Blamelessly.

Footnote 2 on this verse in the Recovery Version says this: “The first Spirit mentioned here is the divine Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God, and the second spirit is the human spirit, the regenerated spirit of man. Ecclesiastes 12:7 - Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto … The only way this person can learn anything is by the five senses -- there is no spiritual connection with God. ", Unto the coming.--A mistranslation for "at the coming," caused by the slight difficulty in understanding the true version. I, the first-person pronoun. And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. From the present participle of pareimi; a being near, i.e. ); it is the very inmost consciousness of the man (see, e.g., 1Corinthians 2:11); it is the part of him which survives death (Hebrews 12:23; 1Peter 3:19; comp. N.B., that our Lord says nothing of the destruction of the "spirit" in hell: the question is whether He there definitely meant to exclude "spirit," or used "soul" popularly as including it).