1 Corinthians 1:9

American Standard Version (1901)

God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πιστὸς ὁ Θεός, διʼ οὗ ἐκλήθητε εἰς κοινωνίαν τοῦ Υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

Pistos the Theos, through whom you eklēthēte into koinōnian of the Huiou of him Iēsou Christou the Kyriou of us.

Grammar Details

• *Pistos*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - faithful
• *Theos*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *eklēthēte*: verb, aorist, passive, indicative, 2nd person, plural - you were called
• *koinōnian*: noun, accusative, feminine, singular - fellowship/participation
• *Huiou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - of Son
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus Christ
• *Kyriou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - of Lord

Word Meanings

• *Pistos*: faithful/reliable/trustworthy
• *eklēthēte*: were called/were invited/were summoned
• *koinōnian*: fellowship/participation/communion/partnership
• *Huiou*: Son/descendant

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil [one] .
• 1 John 1:3 : 3 that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:
• Deut 7:9 : 9 Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
• Isa 49:7 : 7 Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Jehovah that is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
• Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose.
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
• Lam 3:22-23 : 22 [ It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
• Isa 25:1 : 1 O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
• Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
• Ps 100:5 : 5 For Jehovah is good; His lovingkindness [endureth] for ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations.
• John 15:4-5 : 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.
• Rev 19:11 : 11 And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
• John 17:21 : 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 John 4:13 : 13 hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 3:6 : 6 [ to wit], that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,
• Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
• 1 Thess 5:23-24 : 23 And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it.
• 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;
• Heb 2:17 : 17 Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
• Heb 3:1 : 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;
• Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
• Heb 6:18 : 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
• Heb 10:23 : 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
• Heb 11:11 : 11 By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:
• Isa 11:5 : 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
• Ps 89:33-35 : 33 But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
• 1 Cor 10:16 : 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?
• 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
• Rom 8:30 : 30 and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• Rom 9:24 : 24 [ even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Rom 11:17 : 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• Gal 1:15 : 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, [even] from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,