Bible Concordance
Pretensions (2 Occurrences)1 Timothy 4:2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; (See RSV)
2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (DBY)
Thesaurus
Pretensions (2 Occurrences)...Pretensions (2 Occurrences).
... 2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headlong, of vain
pretensions,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (DBY).
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... fruit. It ought to have had fruit if it had been true to its "pretensions,"
in showing its leaves at this particular season. "This ...
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Rival (5 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for
superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. ...
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Pretension (1 Occurrence)
... or false; a presumptuous assertion; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the
appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship. ...
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Absalom (93 Occurrences)
... father, he began to aspire to the throne. His pretensions were favoured
by the people. By many arts he gained their affection; and ...
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Pretext (11 Occurrences)
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False.
... The revolts in this period were generally connected with religious pretensions in
the leaders (Josephus, BJ, II, xiii, 4-"deceived and deluded the people under ...
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Fable
... And in 2 Kings 14:9 Jehoash ridicules the pretensions of Amaziah with the story
of the thistle that wished to make a royal alliance with the cedar. ...
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Pharisee (14 Occurrences)
... party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies
and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior ...
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Christs (2 Occurrences)
... The revolts in this period were generally connected with religious pretensions in
the leaders (Josephus, BJ, II, xiii, 4-"deceived and deluded the people under ...
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