1 Timothy 1:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καθὼς παρεκάλεσά σε προσμεῖναι ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, πορευόμενος εἰς Μακεδονίαν, ἵνα παραγγείλῃς τισὶν μὴ ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖν,

Transliteration

Just as parekalesa you prosmeinai in Ephesō, poreuomenos to Makedonian, in order that parangeilēs tisin not heterodidaskalein,

Grammar Details

• *Kathōs*: subordinating conjunction - just as/according as
• *parekalesa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I urged/exhorted
• *se*: accusative, singular, personal pronoun - you (direct object)
• *prosmeinai*: aorist active infinitive - to remain/continue
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *Ephesō*: dative, feminine, singular - location
• *poreuomenos*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - while going/journeying
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - to/into
• *Makedonian*: accusative, feminine, singular - destination
• *hina*: subordinating conjunction - in order that/so that
• *parangeilēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might command/instruct
• *tisin*: dative, plural, indefinite pronoun - to certain ones/some
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *heterodidaskalein*: present active infinitive - to teach differently/heretically

Word Meanings

• *parekalesa*: urged/exhorted/encouraged/requested
• *prosmeinai*: remain/stay/continue
• *poreuomenos*: traveling/journeying/proceeding
• *parangeilēs*: charge/instruct/command
• *tisin*: certain ones/some people
• *heterodidaskalein*: teach differently/teach strange doctrines/teach heterodoxy

Referenced Verses

• Gal 1:6-7 : 6 I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; 7 which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
• 1 Tim 6:3 : 3 If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
• Titus 1:9-9 : 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers. 10 For there are many unruly men, {G2532} vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
• 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
• 2 John 1:9-9 : 9 Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, {G5547} the same hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If any one cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into [your] house, and give him no greeting:
• Col 2:6-9 : 6 As therefore ye {G3880} received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk in him, 7 rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding {G846} in thanksgiving. 8 Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: 9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, 10 and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power: 11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
• 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now]:
• 1 Tim 4:11 : 11 These things command and teach.
• 1 Tim 5:7 : 7 {G2532} These things also command, that they may be without reproach.
• Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, {G3588} after the wiles of error;
• Phil 2:24 : 24 but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.
• Acts 18:19 : 19 And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
• Acts 19:1-9 : 1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples: 2 and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they [said] unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was [given]. 3 And he said, {G4314} {G846} Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John's baptism. 4 And Paul said, John {G3303} baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on {G5547} Jesus. 5 And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. 7 And they were in all about twelve men. 8 And he entered into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, reasoning and persuading [as to] the things concerning the kingdom of God. 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning {G2596} daily in the school of Tyrannus. 10 And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
• Acts 20:1-3 : 1 And after the uproar ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. 2 And when he had gone through those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece. 3 And when he had spent three months [there,] and {G5259} a plot was laid against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
• Rev 2:1-2 : 1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: 2 I know thy works, and thy toil and {G4675} patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have [this] against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
• 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on {G2198} God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;