Hebrews 3:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ὅθεν, ἀδελφοὶ ἅγιοι, κλήσεως ἐπουρανίου μέτοχοι, κατανοήσατε τὸν Ἀπόστολον καὶ Ἀρχιερέα τῆς ὁμολογίας ἡμῶν, Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν·

Transliteration

Hothen, adelphoi hagioi, klēseōs epouraniou metochoi, katanoēsate the Apostolon and Archierea of the homologias of us, Christon Iēsoun

Grammar Details

• *Hothen*: adverb - from which/therefore/wherefore
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *hagioi*: vocative, masculine, plural - holy ones/saints
• *klēseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of calling/invitation
• *epouraniou*: genitive, feminine, singular - heavenly/celestial
• *metochoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - partakers/participants
• *katanoēsate*: aorist imperative, 2nd person plural - consider/contemplate/fix your attention on
• *Apostolon*: accusative, masculine, singular - apostle/one who is sent
• *Archierea*: accusative, masculine, singular - high priest
• *homologias*: genitive, feminine, singular - confession/profession/acknowledgment
• *Christon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Christ/Anointed One
• *Iēsoun*: accusative, masculine, singular - Jesus

Word Meanings

• *Hothen*: wherefore/therefore/for this reason
• *adelphoi*: brothers/brethren/spiritual siblings
• *hagioi*: holy ones/saints/consecrated ones
• *klēseōs*: calling/invitation/summons
• *epouraniou*: heavenly/celestial/from heaven
• *metochoi*: partakers/participants/sharers
• *katanoēsate*: consider attentively/fix your thoughts on/observe fully
• *homologias*: confession/profession/acknowledgment of faith

Referenced Verses

• Phil 3:14 : 14 I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• 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,
• 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 4:14-15 : 14 Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Heb 10:21 : 21 and [having] a great priest over the house of God;
• John 20:21 : 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace [be] unto you: as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
• Rom 15:8 : 8 For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises [given] unto the fathers,
• Rom 8:28-30 : 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. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: 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.
• 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
• John 20:27 : 27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and reach [hither] thy hand, and put it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Ps 110:4 : 4 Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
• Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
• 2 Tim 2:7 : 7 Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.
• Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
• Eph 4:4 : 4 [ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
• 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 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 1 Pet 3:5 : 5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
• Heb 6:20 : 20 whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
• Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
• 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.
• 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:
• Rev 17:14 : 14 These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they [also shall overcome] that are with him, called and chosen and faithful.
• Heb 2:11 : 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
• Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
• 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
• Isa 5:12 : 12 And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
• Isa 41:20 : 20 that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
• Ezek 12:3 : 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
• Hag 2:15 : 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.
• Rom 1:6-7 : 6 among whom are ye also called [to be] Jesus Christ's: 7 To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 10:17 : 17 seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
• 2 Cor 1:7 : 7 and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
• 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,
• 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;
• Rom 15:27 : 27 Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in carnal things.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours:
• 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. These things teach and exhort.
• 1 Thess 5:27 : 27 I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the brethren.
• Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Col 1:22 : 22 yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
• Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
• Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
• Heb 8:1-3 : 1 Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this] : We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.
• Heb 5:1-9 : 1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity; 3 and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 4 And no man taketh the honor unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron. 5 So Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high priest, but he that spake unto him, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee: 6 as he saith also in another [place], Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek. 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, [ 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation; 10 named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
• 2 Pet 1:3-9 : 3 seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue; 4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust. 5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge; 6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: