διά diá

Meaning

through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)

In the King James Version: after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) … fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with (-in)

Derivation: a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act;

Where it is used

• Acts 20:3 where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
• Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
• Acts 21:4 We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.
• Acts 21:19 Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Acts 21:34 Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, and some another. And since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks.
• Acts 21:35 When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.
• Acts 22:24 the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.
• Acts 23:28 and since I wanted to understand their charges against him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.
• Acts 23:31 So the soldiers followed their orders and brought Paul by night to Antipatris.
• Acts 24:2 When Paul had been called in, Tertullus opened the prosecution: “Because of you, we have enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought improvements to this nation.
• Acts 24:16 In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
• Acts 24:17 After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.
• Acts 27:4 After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
• Acts 27:9 By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,
• Acts 28:2 The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
• Acts 28:18 They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.
• Acts 28:20 So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
• Acts 28:25 They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
• Romans 1:2 the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,
• Romans 1:5 Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
• Romans 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.
• Romans 1:12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
• Romans 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
• Romans 2:12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
• Romans 2:16 on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
• Romans 2:23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
• Romans 2:24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
• Romans 2:27 The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
• Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Romans 3:22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
• Romans 3:24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
• Romans 3:25 God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
• Romans 3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
• Romans 3:30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• Romans 3:31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
• Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
• Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
• Romans 4:16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
• Romans 4:23 Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham,
• Romans 4:24 but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
• Romans 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
• Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Romans 5:2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
• Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
• Romans 5:9 Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
• Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
• Romans 5:11 Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
• Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
• Romans 5:16 Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.
• Romans 5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
• Romans 5:18 So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.
• Romans 5:19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
• Romans 5:21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
• Romans 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
• Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
• Romans 7:5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
• Romans 7:7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
• Romans 7:8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
• Romans 7:11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.