2 Peter 1:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore I shall be {G3756} ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you].

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ οὐκ ἀμελήσω ὑμᾶς ἀει ὑπομιμνήσκειν περὶ τούτων, καίπερ εἰδότας, καὶ ἐστηριγμένους ἐν τῇ παρούσῃ ἀληθείᾳ.

Transliteration

Wherefore not I will neglect you aei hypomimnēskein about these things, although knowing, and having been established in the parousē alētheia.

Grammar Details

Διὸ: conjunction - 'wherefore/therefore'
οὐκ: negative particle - 'not'
ἀμελήσω: future active indicative, 1st singular - 'I will be negligent/neglect'
ὑμᾶς: accusative, plural - 'you'
*aei*: adverb - always/continually
*hypomimnēskein*: present active infinitive - 'to remind/put in remembrance'
περὶ: preposition + genitive - 'about/concerning'
τούτων: genitive, neuter, plural - 'of these things'
καίπερ: concessive conjunction - 'although/though'
εἰδότας: perfect active participle, accusative, masculine, plural - 'knowing'
ἐστηριγμένους: perfect passive participle, accusative, masculine, plural - 'having been established/confirmed'
*parousē*: present active participle, dative, feminine, singular - 'present/being at hand'
*alētheia*: dative, feminine, singular - truth

Word Meanings

*aei*: always/continually/perpetually
*hypomimnēskein*: to remind/bring to remembrance
*parousē*: present/current/at hand
*alētheia*: truth/reality/genuineness

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Referenced Verses

1 John 2:21 : 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no {G3956} lie is of the truth.
Rom 15:14-15 : 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. 15 But {G80} I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,
Phil 3:1 : 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.
Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 1:17 : 17 But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
2 John 1:2 : 2 for the truth's sake which abideth in us, and it shall be with us for ever:
2 Pet 1:13 : 13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.
2 Pet 3:1 : 1 This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;
2 Pet 3:17 : 17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
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]:
2 Tim 1:6 : 6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.
Heb 10:32 : 32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein {G1722} they that occupied themselves were not profited.
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.
1 Pet 5:12 : 12 By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account [him], I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand ye fast {G3739} therein.
Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding {G846} in thanksgiving.
Acts 16:5 : 5 {G3303} So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

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