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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
Passion
"a suffering" or "a passive emotion," is translated "passions" in Romans 7:5 , RV, "(sinful) passions," AV, "motions," and Galatians 5:24 , RV; see AFFECTION , A, No. 3, AFFLICT, B, No. 3.
see AFFECTION , A, No. 1.
"to suffer," is used as a noun, in the aorist infinitive with the article, and translated "passion" in Acts 1:3 , of the suffering of Christ at Calvary. See SUFFER.
"of like feelings or affections" (homoios, "like," and A, No. 2; Eng., "homeopathy"), is rendered "of like passions" in Acts 14:15 (RV marg., "nature"); in James 5:17 , RV, ditto (AV, "subject to like passions").
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Passion'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/p/passion.html. 1940.
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12