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BLAME, BLAMELESS
A. Verb.
(
1
, 3469), “to find fault with, to blame, or calumniate,” is used
in 2 Cor. 6:3, of the ministry of the gospel; in 8:20, of the ministration of financial help.¶
Notes:
(1) Cf. the synonymous verb,
, “to find fault,” Mark 7:2; Rom.
9:19; Heb. 8:8. See
FAULT
.¶
(2) In Gal. 2:11,
is rightly rendered “stood condemned,”
RV
, for
KJV
,
“was to be blamed. See
CONDEMN
.
B. Adjectives.
1.
(
/
, 299): See
BLEMISH
, B.
2.
(
0
, 298), translated in Phil. 2:15 “without blemish” (
KJV
,
“without rebuke”), is rendered “blameless” in 2 Pet. 3:14 (
KJV
and
RV
).¶
3.
(
/
, 273), related to
(A,
Note
), is translated
“unblameable” in 1 Thess. 3:13; “blameless,” in Luke 1:6; Phil. 2:15; 3:6; “faultless” in
Heb. 8:7. See
FAULTLESS
,
UNBLAMEABLE
.¶
“If
is the ‘unblemished,’
is the ‘unblamed.’ … Christ was
in that there was in Him no spot or blemish, and He could say, ‘Which of you
convinceth (convicteth) Me of sin?’ but in strictness of speech He was not
(unblamed), nor is this epithet ever given to Him in the NT, seeing that He endured the
contradiction of sinners against Himself, who slandered His footsteps and laid to His
charge ‘things that He knew not’ (i.e., of which He was guiltless).” Trench,
- !
Sec.103.
4.
(
&
, 338), “guiltless” ( , negative, , euphonic, and
, “a
charge”), is translated, “blameless” in the
KJV
of Matt. 12:5, “guiltless” in 12:7. The
RV
has “guiltless” in both places.¶ In the Sept., in Deut. 19:10, 13, and 21:8-9.¶ See
GUILTLESS
.
5.
(
&
, 423), lit., “that cannot be laid hold of,” hence, “not open
to censure, irreproachable” (from , negative, , euphonic, and
, “to lay hold
of”), is used in 1 Tim. 3:2; 5:7; 6:14 (in all three places the
RV
has “without reproach”; in
the first two
KJV
, “blameless,” in the last, “unrebukeable”; an alternative rendering would
be “irreprehensible). See
REPROACH
,
UNREBUKEABLE
.¶
6.
(
!
, 410) signifies “that which cannot be called to account”
(from , negative, , euphonic, and
, “to call in”), i.e., with nothing laid to one’s
charge (as the result of public investigation), in 1 Cor. 1:8,
RV
, “unreproveable,”
KJV
,
“blameless”; in Col. 1:22,
KJV
and
RV
, “unreproveable”; in 1 Tim. 3:10 and Titus 1:6-7,
KJV
and
RV
, “blameless.” It implies not merely acquittal, but the absence of even a charge
or accusation against a person. This is to be the case with elders.¶
C. Adverb.
(
!
, 274), in 1 Thess. 2:10, “unblameably”; in 5:23, “without
blame,”
KJV
, “blameless,” is said of believers at the judgment-seat of Christ in His