1 John 3:14

American Standard Version (1901)

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡμεῖς οἴδαμεν ὅτι μεταβεβήκαμεν ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου εἰς τὴν ζωήν, ὅτι ἀγαπῶμεν τοὺς ἀδελφούς. Ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἀδελφόν μένει ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ.

Transliteration

We oidamen that we have metabebēkamen from thanatou into zōēn, because we agapōmen the adelphous. The one not agapōn the adelphon menei in thanatō.

Grammar Details

• *oidamen*: perfect active, 1st plural - we know
• *metabebēkamen*: perfect active, 1st plural - we have passed
• *thanatou*: genitive, masculine, singular - death
• *zōēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life
• *agapōmen*: present active, 1st plural - we love
• *adelphous*: accusative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *agapōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - loving
• *adelphon*: accusative, masculine, singular - brother
• *menei*: present active, 3rd singular - remains/abides
• *thanatō*: dative, masculine, singular - death

Word Meanings

• *oidamen*: we know/understand (with certainty)
• *metabebēkamen*: we have passed/crossed over/transitioned
• *thanatou*: death/demise
• *zōēn*: life/existence
• *agapōmen*: we love/cherish
• *adelphous*: brothers/fellow believers
• *agapōn*: loving/cherishing
• *adelphon*: brother/fellow believer
• *menei*: remains/abides/continues
• *thanatō*: death/demise

Referenced Verses

• John 5:24 : 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.
• John 13:35 : 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• 1 John 5:2 : 2 Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
• Matt 25:40 : 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, [even] these least, ye did it unto me.
• John 15:12 : 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
• 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
• Heb 6:10-11 : 10 for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister. 11 And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:
• Heb 13:1 : 1 Let love of the brethren continue.
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
• 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
• 1 John 2:3 : 3 And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• John 15:17 : 17 These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Eph 1:15 : 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward all the saints,
• Eph 2:1 : 1 And you [did he make alive], when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
• Eph 2:5 : 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
• Col 1:4 : 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,
• Luke 15:24 : 24 for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive [again] ; and [was] lost, and is found.
• Prov 21:16 : 16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
• 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
• 1 John 4:7-8 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
• 1 John 4:20-21 : 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. 21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 John 5:13 : 13 These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.
• Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
• 1 John 2:9-9 : 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.