Limitless Word
ἐλέγχωelénchō
GreekG165118 occurrences (KJV)

to confute, admonish

KJV renders it: convict, convince, tell a fault, rebuke, reprove

Where it appears(showing the first 17 of 18)

  • Matt 18:15“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
  • Luke 3:19but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
  • John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
  • John 8:9They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
  • John 8:46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
  • John 16:8When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
  • 1 Cor 14:24But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
  • Eph 5:11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
  • Eph 5:13But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
  • 1 Tim 5:20Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
  • 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
  • Titus 1:9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
  • Titus 1:13This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
  • Titus 2:15Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
  • Heb 12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
  • Jas 2:9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
  • Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.