2 Corinthians 5:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore also we make it our aim, {G2532} whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ καὶ φιλοτιμούμεθα, εἴτε ἐνδημοῦντες εἴτε ἐκδημοῦντες, εὐάρεστοι αὐτῷ εἶναι.

Transliteration

Therefore kai we philotimoumentha, whether endēmountes or ekdēmountes, euarestoi to him to einai.

Grammar Details

• *kai*: conjunction - and/also
• *philotimoumentha*: present middle indicative, 1st person plural - we make it our ambition/strive earnestly
• *endēmountes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - being at home/residing
• *ekdēmountes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - being absent/away from home
• *euarestoi*: adjective, nominative masculine plural - well-pleasing/acceptable
• *einai*: present active infinitive - to be

Word Meanings

• *philotimoumentha*: we make it our ambition/strive earnestly/aspire
• *endēmountes*: being at home/residing/present
• *ekdēmountes*: being absent/away from home/abroad
• *euarestoi*: well-pleasing/acceptable/pleasing

Referenced Verses

• Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
• 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.
• Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby {G1223} we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
• 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall {G4417} never {G4218} stumble: 11 for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
• Gen 4:7 : 7 If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.
• Isa 56:7 : 7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
• John 6:27 : 27 Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
• Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.
• Rom 14:8 : 8 For whether {G5037} we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether {G5037} we live therefore, or {G5037} die, we are the Lord's.
• Rom 14:18 : 18 For he that herein {G5125} serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.
• Rom 15:20 : 20 yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;
• 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air: 27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, {G4458} after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, {G1722} which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:
• Col 1:10 : 10 {G4043} {G5209} to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Col 1:29 : 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.
• 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your {G2398} hands, even as we charged you;
• 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.