2 Corinthians 8:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and {G1537} [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ, ὥσπερ ἐν παντὶ περισσεύετε πίστει, καὶ λόγῳ, καὶ γνώσει, καὶ πάσῃ σπουδῇ, καὶ τῇ ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐν ἡμῖν ἀγάπῃ, ἵνα καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ χάριτι περισσεύητε.

Transliteration

But, just as in everything you perisseuete in pistei, and logō, and gnōsei, and all spoudē, and the from you in us agapē, that also in this the chariti you might perisseuēte.

Grammar Details

*All*: strong adversative conjunction - but
*hōsper*: comparative adverb - just as
*panti*: dative, neuter singular - everything/all things
*perisseuete*: present indicative active, 2nd person plural - you abound
*pistei*: dative, feminine singular - faith/belief
*logō*: dative, masculine singular - word/speech
*gnōsei*: dative, feminine singular - knowledge
*pasē*: dative, feminine singular - all/every
*spoudē*: dative, feminine singular - earnestness/diligence
*ex*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
ὑμῶν: genitive, 2nd person plural - of you
ἡμῖν: dative, 1st person plural - in us
*agapē*: dative, feminine singular - love
*hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
*tautē*: dative, feminine singular demonstrative - this
*chariti*: dative, feminine singular - grace/favor
*perisseuēte*: present subjunctive active, 2nd person plural - you might abound

Word Meanings

*perisseuete*: you abound/excel/overflow
*pistei*: faith/belief/trust
*logō*: word/speech/utterance/message
*gnōsei*: knowledge/understanding
*spoudē*: earnestness/diligence/eagerness/zeal
*agapē*: love/charity/benevolence
*chariti*: grace/favor/gift/blessing
*perisseuēte*: you might abound/excel/overflow

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 9:8 : 8 And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:
1 Cor 1:5 : 5 that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;
2 Pet 1:5-8 : 5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge; 6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are {G2532} full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;
2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;
2 Tim 2:1 : 1 Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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:
1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for {G2250} ever. Amen.
Rev 3:17 : 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:
2 Cor 9:14 : 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
Eph 4:29 : 29 Let {G3956} no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if {G2532} thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?
1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 2 {G1161} If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;
1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For {G2532} in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.
1 Cor 14:12 : 12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.
2 Cor 7:7 : 7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.
2 Cor 8:6 : 6 Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

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