2 Thessalonians 1:8

American Standard Version (1901)

rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν πυρὶ φλογός διδόντος ἐκδίκησιν τοῖς μὴ εἰδόσιν Θεὸν, καὶ τοῖς μὴ ὑπακούουσιν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ:

Transliteration

In pyri of phlogos didontos ekdikēsin to those not eidosin Theon, and to those not hypakouousin to the euangeliō of the Kyriou of us Iēsou Christou:

Grammar Details

• Ἐν *pyri*: preposition + dative, neuter, singular - in/with fire
• *phlogos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of flame
• *didontos*: present participle, active, genitive, masculine, singular - giving/inflicting
• *ekdikēsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object of *didontos*
• μὴ *eidosin*: negative + perfect participle, active, dative, masculine, plural - not knowing
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - direct object of *eidosin*
• μὴ *hypakouousin*: negative + present participle, active, dative, masculine, plural - not obeying
• *euangeliō*: dative, neuter, singular - indirect object of *hypakouousin*
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• ἡμῶν: genitive, 1st person, plural - possessive
• *Iēsou*: genitive, masculine, singular - in apposition to *Kyriou*
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - in apposition to *Iēsou*

Word Meanings

• *pyri*: fire/flame
• *phlogos*: flame/blaze
• *didontos*: giving/inflicting/executing
• *ekdikēsin*: vengeance/retribution/punishment
• *eidosin*: knowing/recognizing/acknowledging
• *Theon*: God/deity
• *hypakouousin*: obeying/heeding/submitting to
• *euangeliō*: gospel/good news
• *Kyriou*: Lord/master/owner

Referenced Verses

• Gal 4:8 : 8 Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:
• Heb 10:27 : 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
• Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
• 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• 2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Rev 20:14-15 : 14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire. 15 And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Ps 79:6 : 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.
• Ps 94:1 : 1 O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
• Isa 1:19 : 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
• Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
• Isa 61:2 : 2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
• Isa 63:4-6 : 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me. 6 And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
• Jer 9:6 : 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
• Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
• Zeph 1:6 : 6 and them that are turned back from following Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.
• Deut 5:5 : 5 (I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
• Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
• Deut 32:41-42 : 41 If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
• 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah.
• Ps 2:9-9 : 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10 Now therefore be wise, O ye kings: Be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Serve Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in him.
• Ps 9:10 : 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
• Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
• Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Thy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
• Ps 50:2-6 : 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. 3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him. 4 He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people: 5 Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. {{Selah
• Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
• John 3:19 : 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• John 8:19 : 19 They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.
• Acts 6:7 : 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
• Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Rom 2:7-8 : 7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,
• Rom 6:16 : 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
• Rom 10:16 : 16 But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
• Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
• Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
• 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• Gal 3:1 : 1 O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
• 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
• Heb 2:3 : 3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;
• Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
• Gen 3:24 : 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
• Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
• Deut 4:11 : 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
• Rev 6:10 : 10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
• Rev 6:16-17 : 16 and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• 1 Pet 3:6 : 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
• Heb 10:30 : 30 For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
• Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
• Deut 4:30 : 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice: