James 2:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Σὺ πιστεύεις ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς εἷς ἐστιν· καλῶς ποιεῖς: καὶ τὰ δαιμόνια πιστεύουσιν, καὶ φρίσσουσιν.

Transliteration

You pisteueis that the Theos one estin; kalōs poieis: and the daimonia pisteuousin, and phrissousin.

Grammar Details

• Σὺ: nominative, second person, singular - you
• *pisteueis*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you believe
• ὅτι: conjunction - that
• ὁ *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• εἷς: nominative, masculine, singular, numeral - one
• *estin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *kalōs*: adverb - well
• *poieis*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you do
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• τὰ *daimonia*: nominative, neuter, plural - the demons
• *pisteuousin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they believe
• *phrissousin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they shudder

Word Meanings

• *pisteueis*: believe/trust/have faith
• *Theos*: God/deity
• *estin*: is/exists
• *kalōs poieis*: you do well/act rightly
• *daimonia*: demons/evil spirits
• *pisteuousin*: believe/trust/have faith
• *phrissousin*: shudder/tremble/are terrified

Referenced Verses

• Luke 4:34 : 34 Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Acts 16:17 : 17 The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim unto you the way of salvation.
• Matt 8:29 : 29 And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
• Mark 1:24 : 24 saying, {G1436} What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Mark 5:7 : 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not.
• Isa 46:9 : 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
• Zech 14:9 : 9 And Jehovah shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall Jehovah be one, and his name one.
• Deut 6:4 : 4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah:
• Isa 43:10 : 10 Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
• Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
• Isa 44:8 : 8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have I not declared unto thee of old, and showed it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.
• Mark 12:29 : 29 Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one:
• Acts 19:15 : 15 And the evil spirit answered and said unto them, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?
• Rom 3:30 : 30 if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.
• 1 Tim 2:5 : 5 For there is one God, {G2532} one mediator also between God and men, [himself] man, Christ Jesus,
• Gal 3:20 : 20 Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one; but God is one.
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Jas 2:8 : 8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
• 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no {G2087} God but {G3361} one.
• 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
• Isa 45:6 : 6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is none else.
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master {G2316} and {G2257} Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:6 : 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it], {G2808} and sealed [it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: {G2532} after this he must be loosed for a little time.
• Eph 4:5-6 : 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in {G5213} all.