1 Peter 1:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν ἡγνικότες ἐν τῇ ὑπακοῇ τῆς ἀληθείας διὰ Πνεύματος εἰς φιλαδελφίαν ἀνυπόκριτον, ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας ἀλλήλους ἀγαπήσατε ἐκτενῶς:

Transliteration

The psychas of you having hēgnikotes in the hypakoē of the alētheias through Pneumatos unto philadelphian anypokriton, from katharas kardias one another agapēsate ektenōs:

Grammar Details

• *psychas*: accusative, feminine, plural - direct object
• *hēgnikotes*: perfect, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - causal/basis
• *hypakoē*: dative, feminine, singular - sphere/means
• *alētheias*: genitive, feminine, singular - objective genitive
• *Pneumatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - means/agency
• *philadelphian*: accusative, feminine, singular - purpose/result
• *anypokriton*: accusative, feminine, singular - attributive
• *katharas*: genitive, feminine, singular - attributive
• *kardias*: genitive, feminine, singular - source
• *agapēsate*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd person, plural - command
• *ektenōs*: adverb - manner

Word Meanings

• *psychas*: souls/lives/inner beings
• *hēgnikotes*: having purified/cleansed/sanctified
• *hypakoē*: obedience/submission/compliance
• *alētheias*: truth/reality/genuineness
• *Pneumatos*: Spirit/breath
• *philadelphian*: brotherly love/fraternal affection
• *anypokriton*: sincere/genuine/without hypocrisy
• *katharas*: pure/clean/undefiled
• *kardias*: heart/core/inner self
• *agapēsate*: love/value highly/cherish
• *ektenōs*: earnestly/fervently/intensely

Referenced Verses

• Heb 13:1 : 1 Let love of the brethren continue.
• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
• 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
• John 13:34-35 : 34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• Rom 12:9-9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 10 In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
• Eph 4:3 : 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;
• Rom 6:16-17 : 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, {G1161} ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
• 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;
• Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
• 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
• 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
• 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
• 1 John 4:20-5:2 : 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, {G4459} cannot love God whom he hath not seen. 21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever {G3588} loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 Hereby {G5129} we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
• Rev 2:4 : 4 But I have [this] against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
• Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?
• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 {G1161} above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
• 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
• 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:
• 1 John 3:14-19 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {G80} abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso {G302} hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth. 19 {G2532} Hereby {G5129} shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:
• Heb 6:10 : 10 for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the {G2873} love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
• Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between {G5037} us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
• Gal 5:5 : 5 For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
• Gal 5:7 : 7 Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?
• Gal 3:1 : 1 O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
• 1 Thess 4:8-9 : 8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you. 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
• Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
• Rom 2:8 : 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,
• Rom 8:13 : 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• John 15:3 : 3 Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.
• John 15:17 : 17 These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
• John 17:17 : 17 Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
• John 17:19 : 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
• Acts 6:7 : 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God {G138} chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• 1 Tim 1:3 : 3 As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.
• 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
• 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thing which was committed unto [thee] guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.
• Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
• 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;