Acts 20:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ γρηγορεῖτε, μνημονεύοντες, ὅτι τριετίαν νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν οὐκ ἐπαυσάμην μετὰ δακρύων νουθετῶν ἕνα ἕκαστον.

Transliteration

Therefore grēgoreite, mnēmoneuontes, that for-trietian night and day not epausamēn with dakryōn nouthetōn one each.

Grammar Details

• *grēgoreite*: present imperative, active, 2nd person plural - be watchful
• *mnēmoneuontes*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - remembering
• *trietian*: accusative, feminine, singular - three-year period
• *epausamēn*: aorist indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I ceased
• *dakryōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of tears
• *nouthetōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - admonishing

Word Meanings

• *grēgoreite*: be watchful/alert/vigilant
• *mnēmoneuontes*: remembering/recalling
• *trietian*: three-year period/three years
• *epausamēn*: I ceased/stopped
• *dakryōn*: tears/weeping
• *nouthetōn*: admonishing/warning/instructing

Referenced Verses

• Acts 19:10 : 10 And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
• Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them]: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you.
• Acts 19:8 : 8 And he entered into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, reasoning and persuading [as to] the things concerning the kingdom of God.
• Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
• Acts 20:19 : 19 serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with {G4183} tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;
• Acts 24:17 : 17 Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
• 1 Cor 4:14 : 14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• Acts 20:7 : 7 And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight.
• Acts 20:11 : 11 And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
• Ezek 3:17-20 : 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
• Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Matt 13:25 : 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
• Mark 13:34-37 : 34 [ It is] as [when] a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, {G2532} commanded also the porter to watch. 35 Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning; 36 lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
• Luke 21:36 : 36 But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• 1 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: {G1063} working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 10 Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
• 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
• 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.
• Rev 16:15 : 15 (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)