φύσιςphýsis
GreekG544913 occurrences (KJV)
growth (by germination or expansion), i.e. (by implication) natural production (lineal descent); by extension, a genus or sort; figuratively, native disposition, constitution or usage
KJV renders it: (man-)kind, nature(-al)
Where it appears(showing the first 11 of 13)
- Rom 1:26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
- Rom 2:14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
- Rom 2:27Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
- Rom 11:21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
- Rom 11:24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
- 1 Cor 11:14Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
- Gal 2:15“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
- Gal 4:8However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
- Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- Jas 3:7For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
- 2 Pet 1:4by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.