πίστις (pistis)
πίστις (pistis) (Greek Lexicon • G4102 • faith, belief, trust): faith, belief, trust. Primary meaning: faith, belief, trust, confidence. Strong's: persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself. Lexical nuances: in active sense, faith , belief , trust , confidence , in NT always of religious faith in God or Christ or spiritual things: Mt 8:10 , Lk 5:20 , Ac 14:9 , Ro 1:8 , I Co 2:5 , II Co 1:24 , I Ti 1:5 , al.; c. gen. obj., Mk 11:22 , Ac 3:16 , Ro 3:22 , Ga 2:16 , Eph 3:12 , Ja 2:1 , al.; c. prep., ἐν , Ro 3:25 , Ga 3:26 , Eph 1:15 , Col 1:24 , I Ti 1:14 3:13 , II Ti 1:13 3:15 , II Pe 1:1 ; εἰς , Ac ... It is closely linked with Papyrus 46 (Chester Beatty II) — 1 Corinthians 13 (IMAGE • manuscripts): Paul's discourse on Love ('Love is patient, love is kind') in early 3rd-century papyrus Greek.