Titus 1:2

American Standard Version (1901)

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπʼ ἐλπίδι ζωῆς αἰωνίου, ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ ἀψευδὴς Θεὸς, πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων·

Transliteration

Upon elpidi zōēs aiōniou, which epēngeilato the apseudēs Theos, before chronōn aiōniōn

Grammar Details

• *Ep'*: preposition + dative (elided form) - upon/on the basis of
• *elpidi*: dative, feminine, singular - hope
• *zōēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of life
• *aiōniou*: genitive, feminine, singular - eternal/everlasting
• *hēn*: accusative, feminine, singular, relative pronoun - which
• *epēngeilato*: aorist, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - promised
• *ho*: nominative, masculine, singular article - the
• *apseudēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - not lying/truthful
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *pro*: preposition + genitive - before
• *chronōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of times
• *aiōniōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - eternal/of ages

Word Meanings

• *elpidi*: hope/expectation
• *zōēs*: life/existence
• *aiōniou*: eternal/everlasting/age-lasting
• *epēngeilato*: promised/announced/declared
• *apseudēs*: not lying/truthful/cannot lie
• *chronōn aiōniōn*: eternal times/ages past/times of ages

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is 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,
• Titus 3:7 : 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• Jude 1:21 : 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
• 1 John 2:25 : 25 And this is the promise which he promised us, [even] the life eternal.
• 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life. 13 These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.
• Heb 6:17-18 : 17 Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
• 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
• 2 Tim 2:15 : 15 Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 John 3:2-3 : 2 Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. 3 And every one that hath this hope [set] on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
• 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
• Prov 8:23-31 : 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth; 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep, 28 When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong, 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth; 30 Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him, 31 Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
• Matt 25:34 : 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
• Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
• Mark 10:17 : 17 And as he was going forth into the way, there ran one to him, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
• Mark 10:30 : 30 but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
• John 3:15-16 : 15 that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 5:39 : 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
• John 6:54 : 54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:68 : 68 Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• John 10:28 : 28 and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
• John 17:2 : 2 even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.
• John 17:24 : 24 Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. [
• Acts 15:18 : 18 Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.
• Rom 1:2 : 2 which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures,
• Rom 2:7 : 7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
• Rom 5:2 : 2 through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Rom 5:4 : 4 and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
• Rom 5:21 : 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 16:25 : 25 Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal,
• Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;
• 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• 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.
• 1 Tim 6:19 : 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is [life] indeed.
• Rev 13:8 : 8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, [every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
• Rev 17:8 : 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.
• Titus 2:7 : 7 in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, gravity,
• 1 Pet 1:20-23 : 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake, 21 who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.