Romans 1:16

American Standard Version (1901)

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ γὰρ ἐπαισχύνομαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ: δύναμις γὰρ Θεοῦ ἐστιν εἰς σωτηρίαν παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι· Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον, καὶ Ἕλληνι.

Transliteration

Ou gar epaischynomai the euangelion the Christou: dynamis gar Theou estin eis sōtērian panti the pisteuonti· Ioudaiō te prōton, kai Hellēni.

Grammar Details

• *Ou*: negative particle - not
• *gar*: conjunction - for
• *epaischynomai*: present middle indicative, 1st person singular - I am ashamed
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ
• *dynamis*: nominative, feminine, singular - power
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - it is
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - unto
• *sōtērian*: accusative, feminine, singular - salvation
• *panti*: dative, masculine, singular, adjective - to everyone
• *pisteuonti*: present active participle, dative, masculine, singular - believing
• *Ioudaiō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Jew
• *te*: conjunction - both
• *prōton*: adverb - first
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *Hellēni*: dative, masculine, singular - to Greek

Word Meanings

• *epaischynomai*: I am ashamed/embarrassed
• *euangelion*: gospel/good news
• *dynamis*: power/might/strength
• *sōtērian*: salvation/deliverance/preservation
• *pisteuonti*: believing/trusting/having faith

Referenced Verses

• Mark 8:38 : 38 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man also shall be ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
• 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;
• Ps 40:9-9 : 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• 1 Pet 4:16 : 16 but if [a man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.
• Luke 9:26 : 26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and [the glory] of the Father, and of the holy angels.
• Rom 2:9 : 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
• 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.
• Jer 23:29 : 29 Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them] .
• Gal 1:7 : 7 which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
• Rom 10:17 : 17 So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:18-24 : 18 For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe. 22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness; 24 but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
• 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
• Acts 3:26 : 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Servant, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.
• Isa 53:1 : 1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
• Ps 119:46 : 46 I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, And shall not be put to shame.
• Luke 2:10-11 : 10 And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people: 11 for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.
• 1 Thess 1:5-6 : 5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake. 6 And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
• 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
• 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 The Lord grant mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;
• 2 Cor 9:13 : 13 seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;
• 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds), 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;
• 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place. 15 For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish; 16 to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
• 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.
• 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
• 2 Cor 2:12 : 12 Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
• 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all; 25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
• 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.
• Col 1:5-6 : 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, 6 which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
• 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
• 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
• Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
• Rom 15:29 : 29 And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
• Rom 4:11 : 11 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned unto them;
• Ps 71:15-16 : 15 My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, [And] of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers [thereof] . 16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.