Ápistos — G571

Definition

adjective

(actively) disbelieving, i.e. without Christian faith (specially, a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing)

1. unfaithful, faithless (not to be trusted, perfidious)
2. incredible, of things
3. unbelieving, incredulous

Usually translated as

unbelieving, faithless, infidel, that believeth not, incredible thing, unbeliever

Origin

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G4103

• A (G1)
• pistós (G4103)

Occurrences

Ápistos occurs 23 times in 21 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Mark (1), Luke (2), John (1), Acts (1), 1 Corinthians (9), 2 Corinthians (3), 1 Timothy (1), Titus (1), Revelation (1)

• Matthew 17:17 — Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless (ἄπιστος) and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
• Mark 9:19 — He answereth him, and saith, O faithless (ἄπιστος) generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
• Luke 9:41 — And Jesus answering said, O faithless (ἄπιστος) and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
• Luke 12:46 — The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers (ἀπίστων).
• John 20:27 — Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless (ἄπιστος), but believing.
• Acts 26:8 — Why should it be thought a thing incredible (ἄπιστον) with you, that God should raise the dead?
• 1 Corinthians 6:6 — But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers (ἀπίστων).
• 1 Corinthians 7:12 — But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not (ἄπιστον), and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
• 1 Corinthians 7:13 — And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not (ἄπιστον), and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
• 1 Corinthians 7:14 — For the unbelieving (ἄπιστος) husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
• 1 Corinthians 7:14 — For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving (ἄπιστος) wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
• 1 Corinthians 7:15 — But if the unbelieving (ἄπιστος) depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
• 1 Corinthians 10:27 — If any of them that believe not (ἀπίστων) bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
• 1 Corinthians 14:22 — Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not (ἀπίστοις): but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
• 1 Corinthians 14:22 — Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not (ἀπίστοις), but for them which believe.
• 1 Corinthians 14:23 — If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers (ἄπιστοι), will they not say that ye are mad?
• 1 Corinthians 14:24 — But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not (ἄπιστος), or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
• 2 Corinthians 4:4 — In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not (ἀπίστων), lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
• 2 Corinthians 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers (ἀπίστοις): for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• 2 Corinthians 6:15 — And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel (ἀπίστου)?
• 1 Timothy 5:8 — But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel (ἀπίστου).
• Titus 1:15 — Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving (ἀπίστοις) is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
• Revelation 21:8 — But the fearful, and unbelieving (ἀπίστοις), and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.