Piety: 4 definitions
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Source: archive.org: Easton's Bible DictionaryPiety definition and references: Lat. pietas, properly honour and respect toward parents (1 Timothy 5:4). In Acts 17:23 the Greek verb is rendered “ye worship,” as applicable to God.
Source: archive.org: Smith's Bible DictionaryPiety refers to:—This word occurs but once in the Authorized Version: “Let them learn first to show piety at home,” better “toward their own household” or family. (1 Timothy 5:4) The choice of this word here instead of the more usual equivalents -of “godliness,” “reverence,” and the like, was probably determined by the special sense of pietas, as “erga parentes,” i.e. toward parents.
Source: archive.org: Nave's Topical BiblePiety definition and references: –See Religion
Source: archive.org: Fausset's Bible DictionaryPiety refers to:—1 Timothy 5:4, "show piety at home" or "reverential dutifulness toward one's own house." The filial relation represents our relation to our heavenly Father.
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Search found 231 books and stories containing Piety, The piety; (plurals include: Pieties, The pieties). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Garuda Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
Chapter CCXXX - A Synopsis of practical pieties < [Dhanvantari Samhita]
Chapter CXIV - Injunctions as to the distinction of friends and enemies (in the Nitisara) < [Brihaspati (Nitisara) Samhita]
Chapter CXVIII - The Akhanda Dvadasi Vratam < [Brihaspati (Nitisara) Samhita]
Formal Education System in Ancient India (by Sushmita Nath)
Subjects studied in the Sūtra Period < [Chapter 5 - Subjects studied in the Vedic and Buddhist period]
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (by Philip Schaff)
Of the piety of Count Terentius < [The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.]
Chapter I - Of the piety of the emperor Gratianus < [The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.]
Of the piety of the emperor Arcadius and the ordination of John Chrysostom < [The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.]
Summa Theologica (English translation) (by St. Thomas Aquinas)
Question. 121 - Of piety (two articles) < [Treatise on the cardinal virtues]
Question. 101 - Of piety (four articles) < [Treatise on the cardinal virtues]
Question. 102 - Of observance, considered in itself, and of its parts (three articles) < [Treatise on the cardinal virtues]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verses 6.21.24-25 < [Chapter 21 - In the Description of the Third Fort, the Glories of Piṇḍāraka-tīrtha]
Verses 3.10.20-21 < [Chapter 10 - The Glory of Śrī Girirāja]
Verses 3.10.22-23 < [Chapter 10 - The Glory of Śrī Girirāja]
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 2.13.219-220 < [Chapter 13 - The Deliverance of Jagāi and Mādhāi]
Verse 1.17.44 < [Chapter 17 - The Lord’s Travel to Gayā]
Verse 2.14.12 < [Chapter 14 - Yamarāja’s Saṅkīrtana]