fath'-les: The translation of apistos, "without faith," having the sense of "unbelieving," "disbelieving." Jesus upbraids the people, "O faithless and perverse generation!" (Mt 17:17;Mr 9:19;Lu 9:41); He says to Thomas, "Be not faithless, but believing" (Joh 20:27); the Revised Version (British and American) adds, "If we are faithless," instead of "believe not" (2Ti 2:13); compare1Co 7:12-15;10:27;14:22,24, etc.;Tit 1:15. InLu 12:46apistos has the sense of "unfaithful," so the Revised Version (British and American); perhaps alsoRe 21:8, "unbelieving."
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