Godliness vs Religion - What's the difference?
godliness | religion |
The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.
* 1562 , The Thirty-Nine Articles , :
* 1604 , Shakespeare, Othello , :
The belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.
A particular system of faith and worship.
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
Any practice that someone or some group is seriously devoted to.
(obsolete) Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
*, II.8:
As nouns the difference between godliness and religion
is that godliness is the condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teaching's of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin while religion is religion.godliness
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Noun
- Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness .
- Nay, but he prated,
- And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
- Against your honour
- That, with the little godliness I have,
- I did full hard forbear him.
See also
* deityreligion
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(wikipedia religion)Noun
(en noun)- My brother tends to value religion , but my sister not as much.
- Islam is a major religion in parts of Asia and Africa.
- Eckankar is a new religion''' but Zoroastrianism is an old '''religion .
- The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
- At this point, ''Star Trek'' has really become a religion .
- Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!
