2 Timothy 3:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ὅτι ἀπὸ βρέφους τὰ ἱερὰ γράμματα οἶδας, τὰ δυνάμενά σε σοφίσαι εἰς σωτηρίαν διὰ πίστεως τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.

Transliteration

Kai that from brephous the hiera grammata oidas, the ones dynamena you sophisai to sōtērian through pisteōs of the [one] in Christō Iēsou.

Grammar Details

• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *brephous*: noun, genitive, neuter, singular - infancy/childhood
• *ta*: definite article, accusative, neuter, plural - the ones
• *hiera*: adjective, accusative, neuter, plural - sacred/holy
• *grammata*: noun, accusative, neuter, plural - writings/letters
• *oidas*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person singular - you know
• *dynamena*: present middle participle, accusative, neuter, plural - being able
• *se*: personal pronoun, accusative, singular - you
• *sophisai*: aorist active infinitive - to make wise
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - to/into
• *sōtērian*: noun, accusative, feminine, singular - salvation
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - through
• *pisteōs*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - faith
• *tēs*: definite article, genitive, feminine, singular - the
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *Christō*: proper noun, dative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *Iēsou*: proper noun, dative, masculine, singular - Jesus

Word Meanings

• *brephous*: infancy/childhood/from a baby
• *hiera*: sacred/holy
• *grammata*: writings/letters/scriptures
• *oidas*: you know/you have known
• *dynamena*: being able/having power
• *sophisai*: to make wise/to give wisdom
• *sōtērian*: salvation/deliverance/preservation
• *pisteōs*: faith/belief/trust

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, {G3754} in thee also.
• 2 Pet 1:20-21 : 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of {G3956} private interpretation. 21 For no prophecy ever came {G4218} by the will of man: but {G40} men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
• Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.
• Prov 8:17 : 17 I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
• Prov 22:6 : 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
• Ps 19:7 : 7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
• Matt 22:29 : 29 But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Luke 24:27 : 27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Acts 10:43 : 43 To him bear all the prophets witness, that through his name every one that believeth on him shall receive remission of sins.
• Acts 13:29 : 29 And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
• Luke 24:45 : 45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;
• Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
• 1 Cor 15:3-4 : 3 For I delivered unto you {G1722} first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;
• John 5:39-40 : 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; 40 and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.
• 1 Pet 1:10-12 : 10 Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that [should come] unto you: 11 searching {G1519} what [time] or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. 12 To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
• Rom 1:2 : 2 which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures,
• Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Be it known unto you therefore, {G435} brethren, that through this man is proclaimed unto you remission of sins: 39 and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, {G2532} while he opened to us the scriptures?
• Luke 1:15 : 15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
• Luke 2:40 : 40 And the child grew, and waxed {G4151} strong, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
• Ps 71:17 : 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
• 1 Sam 2:18 : 18 But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
• 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
• Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
• Dan 10:21 : 21 But I will tell thee that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me against these, but Michael your prince.
• Acts 17:2 : 2 and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
• 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein {G1722} are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
• 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.
• Rev 19:10 : 10 And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.