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G505 describes what is sincere, genuine, or without hypocrisy. The adjective modifies love in Romans 12:9 and First Peter 1:22, ministry love in Second Corinthians 6:6, faith in First Timothy 1:5 and Second Timothy 1:5, and wisdom from above in James 3:17.
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G505 describes what is sincere, genuine, or without hypocrisy. The adjective modifies love in Romans 12:9 and First Peter 1:22, ministry love in Second Corinthians 6:6, faith in First Timothy 1:5 and Second Timothy 1:5, and wisdom from above in James 3:17.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include sincere (2), . . . (1), [and] sincere (1), a sincere (1), must be sincere (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 12:9. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1), 1 Timothy (1), 2 Corinthians (1), 2 Timothy (1).
G505 describes what is sincere, genuine, or without hypocrisy. The adjective modifies love in Romans 12:9 and First Peter 1:22, ministry love in Second Corinthians 6:6, faith in First Timothy 1:5 and Second Timothy 1:5, and wisdom from above in James 3:17. These settings join inward integrity to moral and relational content: sincere love abhors evil and clings to good, faith accompanies a pure heart and good conscience, and heavenly wisdom is pure, peaceable, merciful, fruitful, impartial, and sincere.
The word does not make heartfelt error true, equate emotional intensity with integrity, demand instant perfection, or authorize readers to diagnose another person's hidden motives without evidence.
The local index reports about six uses. G505 modifies love, faith, and wisdom in passages that connect sincerity with truth, purity, conscience, endurance, mercy, moral clarity, and observable fruit.
Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
Paul immediately joins unhypocritical love to abhorring evil and clinging to good. Sincerity is therefore not moral neutrality or approval of whatever feels authentic.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
The goal of the charge is love arising from a pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith, contrasted with fruitless discussion and misuse of the law.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
Peter says truth-obedience has purified his readers toward unfeigned family affection, then calls them to love one another earnestly. The adjective cannot separate affection from the obedience that frames it.
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.
G505 closes a description of wisdom from above as pure, peace-loving, gentle, compliant, merciful, fruitful, and impartial. Sincerity belongs to that whole pattern rather than to self-asserted authenticity.
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Greek word. genuine
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
6 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
unfeigned, without hypocrisy
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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ἀνυπόκριτος is built from these roots:
True faith is not external conformity but authentic trust in Christ that reshapes the inner person and produces visible love. 1 Timothy 1:3-7
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G505 calls for integrity in love, faith, ministry, and wisdom without making sincerity a substitute for truth. Romans 12:9 joins unhypocritical love to hatred of evil and attachment to good. First Timothy 1:5 locates sincere faith beside a pure heart and good conscience, while Second Timothy 1:5 recognizes faith across three generations without treating heritage as automatic conversion.
First Peter 1:22 places genuine brotherly love under obedience to the truth. James 3:17 tests sincere wisdom by purity, peace, gentleness, mercy, impartiality, and fruit. Teachers should expose staged religion while making room for repentance and growth. They should not confuse weakness with hypocrisy, praise heartfelt error as harmless, or claim access to motives that only God fully knows.
Rom.12.9
G505 is an adjective meaning unhypocritical or sincere. The local index reports about six occurrences. Its grammatical forms modify love, faith, and wisdom; the adjective describes integrity or absence of pretense, while the accompanying noun and passage provide the content being tested.
The Old Testament rejects divided hearts, false worship, and deceit while calling for truth within. Those themes provide moral background, but the six New Testament passages define G505 through their own pairings with love, faith, obedience, conscience, wisdom, and fruit.
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