Acts 20:32

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ τὰ νῦν παρατίθεμαι ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοὶ, τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ τῷ λόγῳ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ, τῷ δυναμένῳ ἐποἰκοδομῆσαι, καὶ δοῦναι ὑμῖν κληρονομίαν ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις πᾶσιν.

Transliteration

And the now paratithemai you, adelphoi, to-the Theō, and to-the logō of-the charitos of-him, to-the dynamenō epoikodomēsai, and dounai to-you klēronomian among the hēgiasmenois all.

Grammar Details

• *paratithemai*: present indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I commend/entrust
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God
• *logō*: dative, masculine, singular - to word
• *charitos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of grace
• *dynamenō*: present participle, middle, dative, masculine, singular - being able
• *epoikodomēsai*: aorist infinitive, active - to build up
• *dounai*: aorist infinitive, active - to give
• *klēronomian*: accusative, feminine, singular - inheritance
• *hēgiasmenois*: perfect participle, passive, dative, masculine, plural - having been sanctified

Word Meanings

• *paratithemai*: I commend/entrust/commit
• *adelphoi*: brothers/brethren
• *Theō*: God/deity
• *logō*: word/message
• *charitos*: grace/favor
• *dynamenō*: being able/having power
• *epoikodomēsai*: to build up/edify
• *dounai*: to give/grant
• *klēronomian*: inheritance/possession
• *hēgiasmenois*: having been sanctified/made holy/consecrated

Referenced Verses

• Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Heb 9:15 : 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
• Col 3:24 : 24 knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: {G1063} ye serve the Lord Christ.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
• Acts 14:23 : 23 And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
• 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 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
• Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
• Eph 1:14 : 14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
• Eph 1:18 : 18 having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, {G2532} what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Acts 9:31 : 31 So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.
• Acts 14:3 : 3 Long time therefore {G3303} they tarried [there] speaking boldly in the Lord, who bare witness unto the word of his grace, {G2532} granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
• Jude 1:20 : 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
• Jude 1:24-25 : 24 Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy, 25 to the only {G4680} God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, [be] glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.
• Heb 2:11 : 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
• Gen 50:24 : 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
• Heb 10:14 : 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
• 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 1:4-5 : 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Acts 14:26 : 26 and thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
• Acts 15:40 : 40 but Paul choose Silas, and went forth, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.
• Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
• John 15:3 : 3 Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.
• John 17:17 : 17 Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 4:12 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
• Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, {G5037} their [Lord] and ours:
• 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.