1 Thessalonians 5:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης ἁγιάσαι ὑμᾶς ὁλοτελεῖς· καὶ ὁλόκληρον ὑμῶν τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἀμέμπτως ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τηρηθείη.

Transliteration

Autos de ho Theos tēs eirēnēs hagiasai hymas holoteleis; and holoklēron hymōn to pneuma kai hē psychē kai to sōma amemptōs en tē parousia tou Kyriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou tērētheiē.

Grammar Details

• *Autos*: nominative, masculine, singular, intensive - himself
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/now/but
• *ho Theos tēs eirēnēs*: nominative, masculine, singular with article + genitive phrase - the God of peace
• *hagiasai*: aorist, active, optative, 3rd person singular - may sanctify
• *hymas*: accusative, plural - you (object)
• *holoteleis*: accusative, masculine, plural - completely/wholly
• *holoklēron*: nominative, neuter, singular - entire/complete
• *hymōn*: genitive, plural - of you/your
• *to pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular with article - the spirit
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hē psychē*: nominative, feminine, singular with article - the soul
• *to sōma*: nominative, neuter, singular with article - the body
• *amemptōs*: adverb - blamelessly
• *en*: preposition + dative - in/at
• *tē parousia*: dative, feminine, singular with article - the coming/arrival
• *tou Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular with article - of the Lord
• *hēmōn*: genitive, plural - of us/our
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus Christ
• *tērētheiē*: aorist, passive, optative, 3rd person singular - may be preserved

Word Meanings

• *Autos*: himself (emphasizing God personally)
• *eirēnēs*: of peace/of harmony
• *hagiasai*: may sanctify/may make holy
• *holoteleis*: completely/wholly/through and through
• *holoklēron*: entire/complete/whole/sound in every part
• *pneuma*: spirit/Spirit
• *psychē*: soul/life/inner self
• *sōma*: body/physical form
• *amemptōs*: blamelessly/without fault
• *parousia*: coming/arrival/presence
• *tērētheiē*: may be preserved/may be kept/may be guarded

Referenced Verses

• Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus {G5547} with all his saints.
• Jude 1:24 : 24 Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy,
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, {G2424} after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself {G5209} perfect, establish, strengthen you.
• Rom 15:33 : 33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
• 1 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
• 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
• Eph 5:26-27 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Phil 1:10 : 10 so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;
• Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world, 16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.
• Phil 4:9 : 9 The things which ye {G3129} both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
• Col 1:22 : 22 yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable None before him:
• 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus {G5547} at his coming?
• Lev 20:8 : 8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.
• Lev 20:26 : 26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
• Ezek 37:28 : 28 And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
• Luke 1:46 : 46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
• John 17:19 : 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
• Acts 20:32 : 32 And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
• Rom 15:5 : 5 Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:
• Rom 15:13 : 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 16:20 : 20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet {G1722} shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, {G5037} their [Lord] and ours:
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus,
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
• 2 Thess 3:16 : 16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
• Heb 2:11 : 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
• 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Phil 1:6 : 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ: