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G1752ἕνεκαheneka, ehineken

because ofPart of speech: Greek Preposition

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Occurrences by book

  1. 7
  2. 5
  3. 5
  4. John: 0
  5. 3
  6. 2
  7. 1 Corinthians: 0
  8. 4
  9. Galatians: 0
  10. Ephesians: 0
  11. Philippians: 0
  12. Colossians: 0
  13. 1 Thessalonians: 0
  14. 2 Thessalonians: 0
  15. 1 Timothy: 0
  16. 2 Timothy: 0
  17. Titus: 0
  18. Philemon: 0
  19. Hebrews: 0
  20. James: 0
  21. 1 Peter: 0
  22. 2 Peter: 0
  23. 1 John: 0
  24. 2 John: 0
  25. 3 John: 0
  26. Jude: 0
  27. Revelation: 0

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26 occurrences in 23 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Matthew 5:10

    Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  2. Matthew 5:11

    Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  3. Matthew 10:18

    And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  4. Matthew 10:39

    He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  5. Matthew 16:25

    Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  6. Matthew 19:5

    For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    ἕνεκα heneka “On account of”

  7. Matthew 19:29

    And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “for the sake of”

  8. Mark 8:35

    Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  9. Mark 10:7

    For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    ἕνεκεν heneken “On account of”

  10. Mark 10:29

    Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,

    ἕνεκεν heneken “because”ἕνεκεν heneken “because”

  11. Mark 13:9

    But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “because”

  12. Luke 4:18

    The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from t

    εἵνεκεν eineken “because”

  13. Luke 6:22

    Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.

    ἕνεκα heneka “on account of”

  14. Luke 9:24

    For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  15. Luke 18:29

    And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

    ἕνεκεν heneken “for the sake of”

  16. Luke 21:12

    But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “on account of”

  17. Acts 19:32

    And some said one thing, and some another: for there was no order in the meeting; and most of them had no idea why they had come together.

    ἕνεκα heneka “cause”

  18. Acts 26:21

    For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.

    ἕνεκα heneka “On account of”

  19. Acts 28:20

    But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “because of”

  20. Romans 8:36

    As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “For the sake”

  21. Romans 14:20

    Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “for the sake of”

  22. 2 Corinthians 3:10

    For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

    εἵνεκεν eineken “on account of”

  23. 2 Corinthians 7:12

    So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.

    ἕνεκεν heneken “for the sake of”ἕνεκεν heneken “for the sake of”ἕνεκεν heneken “for the sake of”