1 Thessalonians 2:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλὰ καθὼς δεδοκιμάσμεθα ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ πιστευθῆναι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, οὕτως λαλοῦμεν· οὐχ ὡς ἀνθρώποις ἀρέσκοντες, ἀλλὰ τῷ Θεῷ, τῷ δοκιμάζοντι τὰς καρδίας ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

Alla kathōs we have been dedokimasmetha by the Theou to be pisteuthēnai the euangelion, houtōs we laloumen; not as anthrōpois areskontes, alla the Theō, the one dokimazonti the kardias of us.

Grammar Details

• *Alla*: adversative conjunction - but/yet
• *kathōs*: comparative adverb - just as/according as
• *dedokimasmetha*: perfect passive indicative, 1st person plural - we have been approved/tested
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *pisteuthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be entrusted with
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
• *houtōs*: demonstrative adverb - thus/so/in this manner
• *laloumen*: present active indicative, 1st person plural - we speak
• *anthrōpois*: dative, masculine, plural - men/people
• *areskontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - pleasing/seeking to please
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God
• *dokimazonti*: present active participle, dative, masculine, singular - testing/examining/proving
• *kardias*: accusative, feminine, plural - hearts

Word Meanings

• *dedokimasmetha*: we have been approved/tested/examined/considered worthy
• *pisteuthēnai*: to be entrusted with/to be given in trust
• *areskontes*: pleasing/seeking to please/accommodating
• *dokimazonti*: testing/examining/proving/discerning

Referenced Verses

• Gal 1:10 : 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? {G1063} if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
• Gal 2:7 : 7 but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with [the gospel] of the circumcision
• Rom 8:27 : 27 and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.
• 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Here, moreover, {G3739} it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
• Jer 32:19 : 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto thee.
• Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.
• Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
• Titus 1:3 : 3 but {G5319} in his own seasons manifested his word in the message, wherewith I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
• Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.
• 1 Tim 1:11-13 : 11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 12 {G2532} I thank him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his service; 13 though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
• 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto [thee], turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
• 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thing which was committed unto [thee] guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.
• 2 Tim 2:2 : 2 And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
• 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
• 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.
• 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Wherefore {G575} we henceforth know no man after the flesh: {G1161} even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Eph 6:6 : 6 not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• Ps 44:21 : 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
• Ps 139:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
• Prov 17:3 : 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
• Ps 7:9 : 9 O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.
• Num 27:16 : 16 Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
• 1 Kgs 8:39 : 39 then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling - place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
• Luke 12:42 : 42 And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?
• Luke 16:11 : 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?
• John 2:24-25 : 24 But {G846} Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, 25 and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
• John 21:17 : 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
• 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
• 1 Cor 2:4-5 : 4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of {G442} wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.