1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
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Dispensation
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Colossians 1:25
Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
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οἰκονομία
oikonomía · oy-kon-om-ee'-ah
4 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
administration (of a household or estate); specially, a (religious) "economy"
Strong's KJV usage: :--dispensation, stewardship.
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Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 9:17Strong's last: Colossians 1:25
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For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
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That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
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If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
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Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
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dispensation
DISPENSATION, noun [Latin See Dispense.]
1. Distribution; the act of dealing out to different persons or places; as the dispensation of water indifferently to all parts of the earth.
2. The dealing of God to his creatures; the distribution of good and evil, natural or moral, in the divine government.
Neither are Gods methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.
3. The granting of a license, or the license itself, to do what is forbidden by laws or canons, or to omit something which is commanded; that is, the dispensing with a law or canon, or the exemption of a particular person from the obligation to comply with its injunctions. The pope has power to dispense with the canons of the church, but has no right to grant dispensations to the injury of a third person.
A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry.
4. That which is dispensed or bestowed; a system of principles and rites enjoined; as the Mosaic dispensation; the gospel dispensation; including, the former the Levitical law and rites; the latter the scheme of redemption by Christ.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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