'State' in the Bible

But now that I have received information of an intended attack upon him, I immediately send him to you, directing his accusers also to state before you the case they have against him."

"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa. "to-morrow," replied Festus, "you shall." Accordingly, the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came in state

For, when sending a prisoner to Rome, it seems to me to be absurd not to state the charges against him."

through whom also, as the result of faith, we have obtained an introduction into that state of favour with God in which we stand, and we exult in hope of some day sharing in God's glory.

Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end.

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.