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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Fellowship

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Fellowship

1. With God, consisting in the knowledge of his will (Job 22:21; John 17:3); agreement with his designs (Amos 3:2); mutual affection (Romans 8:38, 39); enjoyment of his presence (Psalms 4:6); conformity to his image (1 John 2:6; 1:6); and participation of his felicity (1 John 1:3, 4; Ephesians 3:14-21).

2. Of saints with one another, in duties (Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:17, 18); in ordinances (Hebrews 10:25; Acts 2:46); in grace, love, joy, etc. (Malachi 3:16; 2 Corinthians 8:4); mutual interest, spiritual and temporal (Romans 12:4, 13; Hebrews 13:16); in sufferings (Romans 15:1, 2; Galatians 6:1, 2; Romans 12:15; and in glory (Revelation 7:9).


Naves Topical Index
Fellowship

General references
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; Amos 3:3
Fraternity; Fellowship

With God

General references
Genesis 5:22; Genesis 5:24; Genesis 6:9; Exodus 29:45; Exodus 33:14-17; Leviticus 26:12; Isaiah 57:15; Zech 2:10; Mark 9:37; John 14:23; John 17:21; John 17:23; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 2 Corinthians 13:11; 1 John 1:3; 1 John 1:5-7; 1 John 3:24; Revelation 21:3-4
Communion, With God

With Christ

With Christ
Matthew 12:48-50; Luke 8:21; Matthew 18:20; Mark 9:37; Luke 24:32; John 6:51-57; John 14:20-23; John 15:1-8; John 17:21-23; John 17:26; Romans 7:4; Psalms 45:9-16; Psalms 22:1; Romans 8:1; Romans 8:10; Romans 8:17; Romans 11:17; Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 6:13-15; 1 Corinthians 6:17; 1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 2 Corinthians 11:2; 2 Corinthians 13:5; Ephesians 5:30; Ephesians 5:32; Colossians 1:27; Colossians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10; Hebrews 2:11; 1 John 2:6; 1 John 2:24; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 3:6; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:13; 1 John 5:12; 1 John 5:20; 2 John 1:9; Revelation 3:20
Communion

Of the Holy Spirit

General references
Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 13:14
Communion; Holy Spirit

Of the Righteous

General references
Psalms 55:14; Psalms 119:63; Amos 3:3; Malachi 3:16; Matthew 17:4; Matthew 20:25-28; Matthew 23:8; Mark 10:42-45; Luke 22:32; Luke 24:13-15; John 13:34; John 15:12; John 17:11; John 17:21-23; Acts 1:14; Acts 2:1; Acts 2:42; Acts 2:44-47; Acts 17:4; Acts 20:35; Romans 1:12; Romans 14:1-4; Romans 14:10; Romans 14:13-16; Romans 14:18-21; Romans 15:1-7; 1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 16:19-20; Galatians 2:9; Galatians 6:2; Galatians 6:10; Ephesians 2:14-22; Ephesians 5:2; Ephesians 5:19; Ephesians 5:30; Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:5; Philippians 1:27; Philippians 2:1-2; Colossians 2:2; Colossians 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:24-25; Hebrews 13:1; James 5:16; 1 Peter 2:17; 1 Peter 3:8-9; 1 John 1:3; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 3:14; 1 John 4:7-8; 1 John 4:11-13
Communion, Of Saints

With the wicked

General references
Genesis 49:6; Exodus 33:15-16; Exodus 34:13-16; Deuteronomy 31:16-17; Numbers 25:1-8; Joshua 23:12-13; Ezra 6:21-22; Ezra 9:14; Psalms 6:8; Psalms 26:4-5; Psalms 50:18; Psalms 102:6-8; Proverbs 28:19; Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 29:24; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 2 Peter 2:18-19; 2 Peter 3:17

Punishment of
Numbers 33:56; Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3; Judges 3:5-8; Ezra 9:7; Ezra 9:14; Psalms 106:41-42; Revelation 2:16; Revelation 2:22-23

Forbidden
Exodus 23:32-33; Exodus 34:12; Judges 2:2; Numbers 16:26; Deuteronomy 7:2-4; Deuteronomy 12:30; Ezra 9:1-2; Deuteronomy 13:6-11; Joshua 23:6-7; Joshua 23:13; Ezra 9:12; Ezra 10:11; Psalms 1:1; Proverbs 1:10-15; Proverbs 4:14-15; Proverbs 9:6; Proverbs 14:7; Matthew 18:17; Romans 16:17; 1 Corinthians 5:9-11; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17; Ephesians 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15; 1 Timothy 6:3-5; 2 Timothy 3:2-7; 2 Peter 3:17; 2 John 1:9-11; Revelation 18:1-4

Exemplified by:

Solomon
1 Kings 11:1-8


Rehoboam
1 Kings 12:8-9


Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 18:3; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 20:35-37


Jehoram
2 Chronicles 21:6


Ahaziah
2 Chronicles 22:3-5


Israelites
Ezra 9:1-2


Israel
Ezekiel 44:7


Judas Iscariot
Matthew 26:14-16


Instances of those who avoided fellowship with the wicked:

Man of God
1 Kings 13:7-10


Nehemiah
Nehemiah 6:2-4; Nehemiah 10:29-31


David
Psalms 101:4-7; Psalms 119:115


Jeremiah
Jeremiah 15:17


Joseph, of Arimathaea
Luke 23:51


Church of Ephesus
Revelation 2:6
Company, Evil; Influence, Evil



Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Fellowship

FEL'LOWSHIP, noun

1. Companionship; society; consort; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; familiar intercourse.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Ephesians 5:11.

Men are made for society and mutual fellowship

2. Association; confederacy; combination.

Most of the other christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war. [Unusual.]

3. Partnership; joint interest; as fellowship in pain.

4. Company; a state of being together.

The great contention of the sea and skies parted our fellowship

5. Frequency of intercourse.

In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods.

6. Fitness and fondness for festive entertainments; with good prefixed.

He had by his good fellowship - made himself popular, with all the officers of the army.

7. Communion; intimate familiarity. 1 John 1:1.

8. In arithmetic, the rule of proportions, by which the accounts of partners in business are adjusted, so that each partner may have a share of gain or sustain a share of loss, in proportion to his part of the stock.

9. An establishment in colleges, for the maintenance of a fellow.