v. Faith, Truth
2Ch 34:12 men proceeded with f in the work
Psa 33:4 straight .. and all his work is done with f
Psa 36:5 Jehovah .. your f reaches to the clouds
Psa 40:10 I have published your faith and your salvation; No
Psa 89:1 from .. in .. I will make your f known with my mouth
Psa 89:8 you are mighty, Jehovah, and your faith surrounds you
Psa 92:2 in the morning your mercy, and your f
Psa 117:2 and the faith of the Lord is forever
Psa 119:75 and that according to your f you afflicted me
Psa 119:90 from generation to generation is your f
Isa 11:5 of his loins, the girdle of his loins
Jer 2:2 I have remembered .. the f of your youth
Lam 3:23 they are new every morning; great is your f
Hos 2:20 and I will betroth you to me in f, and you will know
Rom 3:3 his .. will have nullified the f of God?
2Co 11:3 lost from the sincere fa Christ
An attribute or quality applied in the Bible to both God and human beings. God is constant and loyal, faithful in keeping his promises and unchanging in his ethical nature. God’s faithfulness is generally associated with his merciful promises of salvation. Faithful men are those who can be depended on to fulfill their responsibilities and their word. The NT has frequent calls to fidelity. It is one of the fruits of the Spirit (Gal 5:22).
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
(loyalty, constant faithful).
– From Christ, even to death, and death on the cross!, Mat 27:50, Fi12Cr 2:8-11.
– From the Apostles, Luke 6:14-16.
– Of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph: Mat 1:20, Mat 1:34, Mat 2:14.
– Its importance: Mat 5:10, Mat 21:23, Mat 21:3346, Luc 9:52-57-62,: – In little things: Mat 25:21-23, Luc 16:9-12, Luc 19:17.
– Reward: Luk 12:42, Luk 16:12, Luk 22:24-30.
– Sin and punishment: Jua 6:67-71, Jua 13:18, Luc 12:46, Mat 25:24-30.
Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez
http://bible.com/dictionary/
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
vet, It is one of the attributes of God that is most frequently highlighted in the Scriptures (Dt. 7:9; 32:4; Neh. 9:33; Ps. 25:10; 36:5; 89:2-3; Isaiah 11:5, etc.). The faithful God is worthy of our faith and trust, he keeps the promises and the covenant, fulfilling his word, but also his threats. He is immutable (Ps. 90:1-2; 102:26-28). He is faithful and just to forgive us in Christ’s name, for his finished work (1 Jn. 1:9). Faithfulness should also be the characteristic of the believer. It is an aspect of the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23). It is par excellence the quality that God demands of us, the dispensers of his mysteries (1 Cor. 4: 1-2). If we are faithful in small things, we will be trusted with big things (Luke 16:10-12). It is with the help of God that the believer will be able to be faithful until death (Rev. 2:10) and for it there is a promise of a rich reward (Mt. 24:45-46).
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Admirable virtue that in general means fulfillment of promises and duties and in particular alludes to the fulfillment of words given to friends, in marriage, in commitments made to men and, above all, to promises and vows made goodbye.
(See Marriage 5.3)
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy
Fidelity —which is coherence with oneself, with one’s own promises, and fidelity to the other, be it a human being or the Lord Jesus Christ— is so important that there is no need to fear the odd automatism. Preserving fidelity throughout life is well worth the risk of routine. Besides, there are automatisms and automatisms. There is reasonable and irrational automatism. The reasonable is good, because it leads us to make gestures spontaneously, immediately, almost instinctively, because they are gestures derived from rational and authentic options. On the other hand, irrational automatism is not so irrational, since it perseveres thanks to merely (external) conditioning factors and simulates a reality that does not exist; gestures are made (such as, for example, a detail for a birthday) because the situation demands it. and not out of love or affection. Therefore, automatism in itself is neither good nor bad. Fidelity is the virtue that generates good automatisms. We must not be afraid to delve into the roots of our fidelity, even in instinctive gestures or repetitive, because in this way they will always be true. For example, we can and should always reinforce the root through prayer, grace, recourse to God’s mercy, meditation, but do not be alarmed if some gestures are carried out perhaps without feel nothing at that moment, because the feeling is already at the root, deep down.
Carlo María Martini, Spiritual Dictionary, PPC, Madrid, 1997
Source: Spiritual Dictionary
Fidelity is an essential property of love. By its very essence, love tends to create a community between people, which can only be preserved with the will to be faithful with the conviction of the fidelity of reciprocal love. What characterizes fidelity is the element of perseverance, of duration in time.
Fidelity always refers to another person. Even when we speak of “fidelity to ourselves”, to our word, to our duties, etc., we understand fidelity to the person to whom we have given our word and with whom we have certain duties: God, the spouse, a friend , etc.
Fidelity in the full sense always affirms a personal relationship with a you. That is why fidelity is an indissoluble property of love and an expression of truthfulness and . of constancy.
The more intimate a personal relationship is, the more it must be marked by fidelity.
In a more special sense, fidelity is commonly defined by moralists as the virtue that makes man willing to give others what is owed to them by virtue of a promise, which may include an obligation of justice, as in a contract. of any nature, or be a free promise or a simple word given.
The obligation of fidelity is demanded and accepted in a certain way not only by virtue of our promises; but also and above all by virtue of the unfailing love of God that has been given to us.
God’s loving and faithful behavior toward us powerfully invites us to fidelity. Indeed, the prototype and the first foundation of all human fidelity is God’s fidelity.
The psalms never tire of praising God’s fidelity, the foundation of our hope. “Lord, your love reaches to heaven, your faithfulness to the clouds” (Ps 35,6; cf. 56,11; 33,4). God’s fidelity is especially shown in the fact that he always welcomes back the unfaithful people (Hos 3,2). God is faithful to his promises and to his threats: “From my mouth comes a sentence, an irrevocable word” (1s 45,23). The glorious battle name of Christ in the Apocalypse is the “Faithful” and the “True” (Rev 19,11). In the mysterious fidelity of God comes the hope of our final perseverance, our fidelity until death (cf. 1 Cor 10,13. 1 Thes 5,24; 2 Thes 3,3).
Fidelity’ as an authentic human value and at the same time deeply religious is an essential property of Christian marriage. On the anthropological level, fidelity is presented as the sign of the capacity of human love to become, from a transitory reality (as it is, at least initially), a definitive and irrevocable decision, capable of committing the person for the whole of life. life. Fidelity, in this perspective, must be seen not only in a negative way, as a rejection of adultery and all forms of spiritual, affective and sexual evasion, but rather in a positive way, as the ability to share a common project of life.
Marital fidelity, already perceived on the human level as a value, can hardly be practiced and lived outside of an authentically religious context (be it of explicit faith or only implicit faith). The structural infidelity of man cannot be overcome or healed except with the help that comes from the supreme fidelity of God. The conjugal love covenant is based on the eternally faithful love of God. “By virtue of the covenant of conjugal master, man and woman are no longer two, but one flesh, and are called to continually grow in their communion, through their daily fidelity to the matrimonial promise of the total reciprocal gift” (Familiaris consortium 19). A love of this kind can only be fully understood in the light of the cross, that is, of Christ the bridegroom who “loved the Church and gave himself up for her” (Eph 5:25).
The same canonical juridical indissolubility does nothing more than transfer to the level of the law the profound requirement of fidelity inherent in conjugal love.
G. Cappelli
Bibl.: On fidelity in marriage M. Vidal, Crisis of the marriage institution, PS, Madrid 1987. G. Campanini, Fidelity and indissolubility’ in NDTM, 769-778: A. Macías, Christian marriage in a changing world , Theological Center, Las Palmas 1980; K, Wojtyla, Love and responsibility Reason and Faith, Madrid 1978.
PACOMIO, Luciano, Encyclopedic Theological Dictionary, Divine Word, Navarra, 1995
Source: Encyclopedic Theological Dictionary
A. Name emet (“true” 127 times; e.g. Isa 38:18) and Source: Vine Old Testament Dictionary
Fidelity (Hebr. emet), God’s greatest attribute (Ex 34,6), is frequently associated with his paternal goodness (Hebr. hesed) towards the people of the covenant. These two complementary attributes indicate that the *covenant is both a gratuitous gift and a bond whose solidity resists the test of the centuries (Ps 119,90). To these two attitudes, in which the ways of God are summed up (Ps 25,10), man must respond by conforming to them; the *filial piety that it owes to God will have as proof of its *truth the fidelity in observing the precepts of the alliance.
Throughout the history of salvation, divine fidelity is revealed immutable, in the face of man’s constant infidelity, until Christ, *faithful witness of the truth (Jn 18, 37; Ap 3,14), communicates to men the grace with which he is full (Jn 1,14.16) and makes them capable of deserving the crown of life by imitating his fidelity until death (Ap 2,10).
AT. 1. Faithfulness of God. God is the “rock” of Israel (Dt 32,4) ; this name symbolizes his unchanging fidelity, the truth of his * words, the soundness of his * promises. His words do not pass away (Is 40,8), his promises are kept (Tob 14,4); God does not lie or retract (Num 23,19); his plan is executed (Is 25,1) by the power of his word which, coming from his mouth, he does not return until after having fulfilled his mission (Is 55,11); God does not vary (Mal 3,6). Thus the spouse that has been chosen, wants to unite her with the bond of perfect fidelity (Hos 2.22), without which she cannot know God (4.2).
It is not enough, then, to praise the divine fidelity that exceeds the heavens (Ps 36,61, nor to proclaim it to invoke it (Ps 143,1) or to remind God of his promises (Ps 89,1-9.25-40). to pray to the faithful God to obtain fidelity from him (1 Kings 8, 56ff), and cease to respond to his fidelity with impiety (Neh 9,33).In fact, only God can *convert his unfaithful people and give them happiness making the earth germinate…