1 Corinthians 11:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now I praise you {G80} that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπαινῶ δὲ ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοί, ὅτι πάντα μου μέμνησθε, καὶ καθὼς παρέδωκα ὑμῖν τὰς παραδόσεις κατέχετε.

Transliteration

Epainō de you, adelphoi, hoti all things of me you memnēsthe, and kathōs I paredōka to you the paradoseis you katechete.

Grammar Details

• *Epainō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I praise/commend
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• ὑμᾶς: accusative, 2nd person plural - you (object)
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/that
• πάντα: accusative, neuter, plural - all things
• μου: genitive, 1st person singular - of me
• *memnēsthe*: perfect middle/passive indicative, 2nd person plural - you remember
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/in the same way
• *paredōka*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I delivered/handed down
• ὑμῖν: dative, 2nd person plural - to you
• *paradoseis*: accusative, feminine, plural - traditions/teachings
• *katechete*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you hold fast/maintain

Word Meanings

• *Epainō*: praise/commend
• *memnēsthe*: remember/keep in mind
• *paredōka*: delivered/handed down/transmitted
• *paradoseis*: traditions/teachings/instructions
• *katechete*: hold fast/maintain/keep

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 2:15 : 15 So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
• 1 Cor 4:17 : 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
• 1 Cor 11:17 : 17 But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
• 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.
• 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which {G3056} I preached unto you, except {G3361} ye believed in vain.
• 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.
• 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more. 2 For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
• 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;
• 1 Cor 7:17 : 17 Only, {G3361} as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.
• Prov 31:28-31 : 28 Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband [also], and he praiseth her, [saying]: 29 Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all. 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.