gnesios describes a person or quality presented as authentic, including a child, a fellow worker, and love.

The attested uses chiefly identify people as authentic within relationships of faith and shared labor; a further use concerns the authenticity being tested in love.

1. Authentic persons in faith relationships · dominant

   In 1 Timothy 1:2 and Titus 1:4, the dative singular neuter form occurs in greetings to Timothy and Titus, whom the APB renders as a “genuine child” in faith. In Philippians 4:3, the vocative singular masculine form directly addresses a “genuine yokefellow” and asks him to help women who contended in the gospel.

   1 Timothy 1:2Philippians 4:3Titus 1:4
2. Authenticity of love under testing · occasional

   In 2 Corinthians 8:8, the accusative singular neuter form occurs in the clause about testing the genuineness of the readers’ love; the APB presents this as a test prompted by the diligence of others.

   2 Corinthians 8:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “genuine” for the child and yokefellow descriptions in 1 Timothy 1:2, Philippians 4:3, and Titus 1:4, while 2 Corinthians 8:8 has “genuineness” of love. These renderings show the clauses’ presentation rather than a precise word-for-word mapping.