1 John 5:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ παρρησία ἣν ἔχομεν πρὸς αὐτόν, ὅτι, ἐάν τι αἰτώμεθα κατὰ τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, ἀκούει ἡμῶν:

Transliteration

And this estin the parrēsia which we echomen pros him, that, if anything we aitōmetha according to the thelēma of him, he akouei us:

Grammar Details

• *hautē*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - this
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *parrēsia*: nominative, feminine, singular - confidence/boldness
• *hēn*: relative pronoun, accusative, feminine, singular - which
• *echomen*: present active indicative, 1st plural - we have
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - toward/with
• *auton*: personal pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - him
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *ean*: conditional conjunction - if
• *ti*: indefinite pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular - anything
• *aitōmetha*: present middle subjunctive, 1st plural - we ask for ourselves
• *kata*: preposition with accusative - according to
• *thelēma*: accusative, neuter, singular - will
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *akouei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - he hears
• *hēmōn*: personal pronoun, genitive, 1st plural - of us

Word Meanings

• *parrēsia*: confidence/boldness/freedom of speech
• *echomen*: we have/we possess/we hold
• *pros*: toward/with/in relation to
• *aitōmetha*: we ask for ourselves/we request/we petition
• *thelēma*: will/desire/purpose
• *akouei*: he hears/he listens to/he pays attention to

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 3:21-22 : 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; 22 and whatsoever {G1437} we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
• John 14:13 : 13 And {G5100} whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• John 16:24 : 24 Hitherto {G737} have ye asked {G3756} nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
• Jas 4:3 : 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
• Eph 3:12 : 12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
• John 15:7 : 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever {G1437} ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
• Ps 34:17 : 17 [ The righteous] cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles.
• Prov 15:29 : 29 Jehovah is far from the wicked; But he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
• Jer 33:3 : 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.
• Jas 1:5-6 : 5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
• Job 34:28 : 28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
• John 9:31 : 31 We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.
• Ps 31:22 : 22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.
• Ps 69:33 : 33 For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.
• Jer 29:12-13 : 12 And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
• Matt 21:22 : 22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
• Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
• Matt 7:7-9 : 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; 10 or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
• John 11:42 : 42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
• Heb 3:14 : 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
• Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The {G1754} supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.