Godliness — Living It Out — KJV Bible Study

Godliness is a walk before it is anything else. A child does not learn to walk in a day: first he crawls on his hands and knees; then his father takes him by the arms and teaches him to walk, step by step; then he walks alone; then he grows, and he runs. And the man who runs well runs a race, and the race has an end, and at the end a crown. So it is with the walk with God. The Greek word is eusebeia (G2150, godliness) — piety, the well-worship of God; and it has a companion, eusebos (G2153, godly), which is that same piety lived out. The Hebrew calls such a man chaciyd (H2623, godly) — kind, holy, a saint; and to Abram God said, walk before me, and be tamiym (H8549, perfect) — whole, entire, sound. This study carries godliness through the whole way of a man: how he finds it when he can only crawl; how he walks in it when he has it; how he runs with it and offers it like a soldier; and how he crosses the line at the last, where the crown is laid up, and where the word of our God stands forever. Search it out.