1 Thessalonians 2:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὕτως ἱμειρόμενοι ὑμῶν, εὐδοκοῦμεν μεταδοῦναι ὑμῖν, οὐ μόνον τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς, διότι ἀγαπητοὶ ἡμῖν γεγένησθε.

Transliteration

Houtōs himeiromenoi of you, we eudokoumen metadounai to you, not monon the euangelion of the Theou, alla kai the heautōn psychas, dioti agapētoi to us you have gegenēsthe.

Grammar Details

*Houtōs*: demonstrative adverb - thus/so/in this manner
*himeiromenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - yearning/longing
*eudokoumen*: imperfect active indicative, 1st person plural - we were pleased/willing
*metadounai*: aorist active infinitive - to share/impart
*monon*: adverb - only/alone
*euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
*Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
*alla kai*: adversative conjunction + conjunction - but also
*heautōn*: genitive, masculine, plural, reflexive pronoun - our own
*psychas*: accusative, feminine, plural - souls/lives
*dioti*: conjunction - because/for the reason that
*agapētoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - beloved/dear
*gegenēsthe*: perfect passive indicative, 2nd person plural - you have become

Word Meanings

*himeiromenoi*: yearning/longing/desiring affectionately
*eudokoumen*: we were pleased/willing/thought it good
*psychas*: souls/lives/selves
*agapētoi*: beloved/dear/dearly loved

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
1 John 3:16 : 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.
Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
Rom 1:11-12 : 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; 12 that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Rom 10:1 : 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.
Rom 15:29 : 29 And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections. 13 Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until {G3739} Christ be formed in you—
Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for Jehovah hath spoken. 16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
Phil 2:20 : 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.
Phil 2:25-26 : 25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need; 26 since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:
Phil 4:1 : 1 Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
Col 1:7 : 7 even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.
Phlm 1:1 : 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,
Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you.
Luke 7:2 : 2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick and at the point of death.
Acts 20:23-24 : 23 save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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