2 Peter 1:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For he that {G3361} lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ᾯ γὰρ μὴ πάρεστιν ταῦτα τυφλός ἐστιν, μυωπάζων, λήθην λαβὼν τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ τῶν πάλαι αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν.

Transliteration

For in whom not parestin these things typhlos estin, being short-sighted, lēthēn having taken of the katharismou of the long ago of him hamartiōn.

Grammar Details

• ᾯ: dative, masculine, singular - 'in whom/to whom'
• γὰρ: conjunction - 'for'
• μὴ: negative particle - 'not'
• *parestin*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - 'is present/exists'
• ταῦτα: nominative, neuter, plural - 'these things'
• *typhlos*: nominative, masculine, singular - blind
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - 'is'
• μυωπάζων: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - 'being nearsighted/short-sighted'
• *lēthēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - forgetfulness
• λαβὼν: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - 'having taken/received'
• *katharismou*: genitive, masculine, singular - cleansing/purification
• πάλαι: adverb - 'long ago/former'
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - sins

Word Meanings

• *parestin*: is present/exists/is at hand
• *typhlos*: blind/unseeing
• *lēthēn*: forgetfulness/oblivion
• *katharismou*: cleansing/purification/purging
• *hamartiōn*: sins/offenses/misdeeds

Referenced Verses

• Eph 5:26 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
• Rom 6:1-4 : 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? 3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
• Rom 6:11 : 11 Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead {G3303} unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Jas 2:14-26 : 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith. 19 Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect; 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God. 24 Ye see {G5106} that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus {G5547} his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 John 2:9-9 : 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
• 2 Pet 1:4-7 : 4 whereby {G1223} he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust. 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.
• 2 Pet 2:18-20 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
• Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
• 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].
• Mark 10:21 : 21 And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Luke 18:22 : 22 And when Jesus heard it, he said unto him, One thing thou lackest yet: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• John 9:40-41 : 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: {G3767} your sin remaineth.