G829:authades:self-willed
<p><b>Titus 1:7-9 (NASB) </b>
<sup>7 </sup> For the overseer must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,
<sup>8 </sup> but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled,
<sup>9 </sup> holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.
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<li>Strongs: self-pleasing, arrogant.</li>
<li>Louw and Nida: pertaining to being arrogant as the result of self-will and stubbornness. In a number of languages 'arrogant' may be expressed as 'thinking one is so much better than everyone else' or 'always looking down on other people' or 'always saying, I am better.'
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Symantic Domains.</li>
<li>Theological Dictionary of the New Testament Abridged ("Little Kittel"): a. “Self-satisfied,” b. “arbitrary,” c. “morose,” d. “shameless.” In <a href="http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=Tit+1%3A7">Tit. 1:7</a> (bishops) the related adjectives favor b., arbitrary, while in <a href="http://www.crossbooks.com/verse.asp?ref=2Pe+2%3A10">2 Pet. 2:10</a> (heretics) the context suggests d., shameless.
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament: Abridged in One Volume.
(Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Symantic Domains.)</li>
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