John 8:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἀμὴν, ἀμὴν, λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι Πᾶς ὁ ποιῶν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν δοῦλός ἐστιν τῆς ἁμαρτίας.

Transliteration

Apekrithē to-them the Iēsous, Amēn, amēn, legō to-you, that Pas ho poiōn tēn hamartian doulos estin tēs hamartias.

Grammar Details

• *Apekrithē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - he answered/replied [completed action]
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *Amēn*: Hebrew loanword - truly/verily
• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I say/tell
• *Pas*: adjective, nominative masculine singular - everyone/all
• *ho poiōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular - the one doing/practicing
• *tēn hamartian*: accusative feminine singular - the sin
• *doulos*: nominative masculine singular - slave/servant
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *tēs hamartias*: genitive feminine singular - of the sin

Word Meanings

• *Amēn*: truly/verily/certainly [emphatic Hebrew affirmation]
• *poiōn*: doing/practicing/committing/performing
• *hamartian*: sin/missing the mark/error/failure
• *doulos*: slave/servant/bondservant

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 2:19 : 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.
• Rom 6:16 : 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
• Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
• Rom 6:19-20 : 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification. 20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
• Rom 6:6 : 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
• 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no {G4160} sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot {G3756} sin, because he is begotten of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 (But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
• Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
• Rom 7:25 : 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
• Rom 8:21 : 21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
• John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot {G1410} see the kingdom of God.
• Acts 8:23 : 23 For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
• Matt 5:18 : 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.