John 6:63

American Standard Version (1901)

It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸ πνεῦμά ἐστιν τὸ ζωοποιοῦν· ἡ σὰρξ οὐκ ὠφελεῖ οὐδέν: τὰ ῥήματα ἃ ἐγὼ λαλῶ ὑμῖν, πνεῦμά ἐστιν, καὶ ζωή ἐστιν.

Transliteration

The pneuma estin the zōopoioun; the sarx not ōphelei nothing: the rhēmata which I lalō to you, pneuma estin, and zōē estin.

Grammar Details

• *pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - spirit
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *zōopoioun*: present active participle, nominative, neuter, singular - giving life
• *sarx*: nominative, feminine, singular - flesh
• *ōphelei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - profits/benefits
• *rhēmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - words/sayings
• *lalō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I speak/say
• *zōē*: nominative, feminine, singular - life

Word Meanings

• *pneuma*: spirit/breath/wind
• *estin*: is/exists
• *zōopoioun*: giving life/making alive/vivifying
• *sarx*: flesh/body/physical nature
• *ōphelei*: profits/benefits/helps
• *rhēmata*: words/sayings/statements
• *lalō*: speak/say/tell
• *zōē*: life/existence

Referenced Verses

• John 6:68 : 68 Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget thy precepts; For with them thou hast quickened me.
• Ps 119:130 : 130 The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.
• Rom 10:17 : 17 So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.
• Deut 32:47 : 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
• Ps 119:50 : 50 This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me.
• Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Jehovah are true, [and] righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
• 2 Cor 3:6-8 : 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away: 8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Gal 5:25 : 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
• Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
• 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• Rom 10:8-9 : 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: 9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: 10 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.
• Gal 6:15 : 15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
• 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
• 1 Cor 2:9-9 : 9 but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him. 10 But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. 12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words] . 14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.
• 1 Cor 11:27-29 : 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.
• Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• John 12:49-50 : 49 For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.
• Rom 2:25 : 25 For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
• Rom 3:1-2 : 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;