{"id":34518,"date":"2012-08-28T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=34518"},"modified":"2021-04-24T20:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T01:34:45","slug":"what-does-godliness-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-does-godliness-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does &#8220;godliness&#8221; mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>What does &#8220;godliness&#8221; mean?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust<\/em>&#8221; (II Peter 1:2-4).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Greek word\u00a0<em>eusebeia<\/em>\u00a0means religious piety, reverence toward God, and proper conduct before God. It can be seen as a way of life in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence<\/em>&#8221; (I Timothy 2:2).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Now godliness with contentment is great gain<\/em>&#8221; (I Timothy 6:6).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Godliness is also the things a person believes in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<em>And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory<\/em>&#8221; (I Timothy 3:16).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness &#8230;<\/em>&#8221; (I Timothy 6:3).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What does &#8220;godliness&#8221; mean? Answer: &#8220;Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1327,238,76],"class_list":["post-34518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-godliness","tag-righteousness","tag-terminology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18734,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-partakers-of-the-divine-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":34518,"position":0},"title":"What does it mean to be partakers of the divine nature?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What does it mean to be partakers of the divine nature in II Peter 1:4-11? 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