1 Thessalonians 4:13

American Standard Version (1901)

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ θέλω δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοί, περὶ τῶν κεκοιμημένων, ἵνα μὴ λυπῆσθε, καθὼς καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ οἱ μὴ ἔχοντες ἐλπίδα.

Transliteration

Not I thelō but you to agnoein, adelphoi, concerning the ones having kekoimēmenōn, that not you may lypēsthe, just as also the loipoi the ones not echontes elpida.

Grammar Details

• *thelō*: present, indicative, active, 1st person, singular - I want/wish
• *agnoein*: present, infinitive, active - to be ignorant/not know
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers (direct address)
• *kekoimēmenōn*: perfect, participle, middle/passive, genitive, masculine, plural - having fallen asleep/died
• *lypēsthe*: present, subjunctive, passive, 2nd person, plural - you may be grieved/sorrowful
• *loipoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - rest/others/remaining ones
• *echontes*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - having/possessing
• *elpida*: accusative, feminine, singular - hope (direct object)

Word Meanings

• *thelō*: want/wish/desire/will
• *agnoein*: be ignorant/not know/misunderstand
• *adelphoi*: brothers/siblings/fellow believers
• *kekoimēmenōn*: having fallen asleep/died/passed away
• *lypēsthe*: be grieved/sorrowful/distressed
• *loipoi*: rest/others/remaining ones
• *elpida*: hope/expectation/confidence

Referenced Verses

• Eph 2:12 : 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
• 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
• Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• John 11:11-13 : 11 These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover. 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.
• Acts 7:60 : 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
• Acts 8:2 : 2 And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
• Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
• Rom 1:13 : 13 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.
• 1 Cor 10:1 : 1 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
• 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
• 1 Cor 15:6 : 6 then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep;
• 1 Cor 15:18-19 : 18 Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
• 2 Cor 1:8 : 8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
• Gen 37:35 : 35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
• Lev 19:28 : 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
• Deut 14:1-2 : 1 Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
• 2 Sam 12:19-20 : 19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel; and he came into the house of Jehovah, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
• 1 Kgs 1:21 : 21 Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
• 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
• Job 19:25-27 : 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
• Ezek 24:16-18 : 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet thou shalt neither mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
• John 11:24 : 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
• 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
• 1 Thess 4:15 : 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
• 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
• Luke 8:52-53 : 52 And all were weeping, and bewailing her: but he said, Weep not; for she is not dead, but sleepeth. 53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
• Matt 27:52 : 52 and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised;
• Job 1:21 : 21 and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.
• 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!