KALOS
American: beautiful, virtuous
What is the most
positive adjective in the New Blood Covenant? It is kalos!
Almost Greek: [Words in italics
are translator’s additions.]
1st Thessalonians 5.12: Brothers! We ask you to know those laboring among you (presiding over you in the Kurios, admonishing you) and to esteem them most exceedingly in agape because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves! We encourage you, Brothers, parakaloumen [invite, exhort] the insubordinate, console the faint-hearted, care for the weak, be long-suffering toward all. See that not even one person returns kakon [worthless] for kakou [worthless] to anyone but always pursue the good both toward one another and toward all. Always rejoice! Continually proseuchesthe [humbly beg God, pray]! Eucharisteite [Gratefully give thanks] in all for this is the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos (in the Christos Jesus) to you. Don’t quench the Hagios Pneuma! Don’t despise propheteia! [before tellers, prophets] Test everything; firmly hold the kalos; keep back from every form of ponerou [hurtful].
Romans 12.15: Rejoice with the rejoicing and wail with the wailing. Have the same interest into all of one another, not only having interest in the lofty; conversely, yielding to the lowly. Not be caused to be wise near yourselves [in your own estimation]. Give back to no one kakon [worthless] for kakou [worthless]. Promote the kala before all men. If possible (emergent from yourselves), be peaceable to all men.
James 3.13: Who is wise and knowing [knowledgeable] in [among] you? Let him show (emergent from his kalos behavior) his works with humility of wisdom. But if you have bitter zelon [heat: zeal, ardor; jealousy, envy, malice] and intrigue in your heart, don’t exult over this and lie against the truth. This isn’t the wisdom coming down from above but is earthly; bestial; demonic. For where zelos and intrigue are, there is instability and every foul deed. But the wisdom from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, appropriate, easily persuaded, replete with compassion and good fruits, impartial and unfeigned. The seed of the fruit of dikaiosunes [equity, justification, rightness] is sown in shalom [safety, peace, health, happiness, prosperity, friendship] for those making shalom.
1st Timothy 2: Accordingly first of all, I parakalo that deeseis [petitions, requests, prayers], proseuchas [humbly begging God, praying], supplications and eucharistias to Theos be made on behalf of all men (on behalf of kings and all those in prominence) in order that we may all lead a tranquil and sedate life in all piety and venerableness. For this is kalos and acceptable before the face of our Deliverer, Theos, Who thelei all men to be delivered and to reach to a recognition of the truth to come. For Theos is One! Also, there is One go-between [Mediator, Arbitrator] between Theos and men, the Man, Jesus the Christos; He having given Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times. Into this I was placed, a herald and an apostolos (I tell the truth in the Christo; I not lie.); a teacher of the ethnon [races, non-Jews, Gentiles] in pistei [reliance upon, faith] and truth.
1st Timothy 3: Trustworthy is the logos [word]: If anyone aspires to oversee relief, he sets his heart upon a kalou work. Then, it behooves the overseer to be not-arrested [above reproach], the man [husband] of one gunaikos [woman, wife]; sober, sensible, decorous, hospitable; able to teach, not a habitual drinker, not a batterer, not sordid [greedy] but proper, not belligerent, not avaricious; presiding well over his own household, having his children in subordination amidst being venerable. (If anyone not knows how to preside over his own household, how will he take care of an ekklesias [assembly, church] of Theos?) Not shall he be newly planted in the faith, lest being caused to be conceited, he fall into krima [decision, judgment rendered, verdict]; the fate of the diabolos [leader to shame, devil, satyr]. It behooves him also to have a kalos testimony from those outside the faith, lest he fall into reproach; into the trap of the diabolou. Likewise, diakonous [waiters, attendants, servants, deacons] must be venerable; not dilogos [double-tongued], not given to much wine, not sordid; holding the musterion [secret, mystery] of the pisteos in a clean conscience. Also let these first be tested, then let them serve; being unaccused. Likewise, their gunaikas must be venerable; not diabolous, sober, pistas in all. Let diakonoi be men of one gunaikos, well-presiding over their own children and their own houses for those having served well acquire a kalon standing for themselves and much outspoken [confident] in the pistei in Jesus the Christo.
1st Timothy 6.17: Command the wealthy (in this present age) not to be arrogant nor to eipikenai [set expectation or hope] upon the uncertainty of wealth but set expectation in the living Theos (the One presenting to us all abundantly for full enjoyment) to work good, to be rich in kalois work, to be generous, sharing liberality, treasuring [storing away] for themselves a kalon foundation to the impending age in order that they seize eternal life.
End of Twentieth Lesson
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