Luke 10:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but {G3123} rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πλὴν ἐν τούτῳ μὴ χαίρετε, ὅτι τὰ πνεύματα ὑμῖν ὑποτάσσεται· χαίρετε δὲ μᾶλλον, ὅτι τὰ ὀνόματα ὑμῶν ἐγράφη ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.

Transliteration

Plēn in this mē chairete, that the pneumata to you hypotassetai; chairete de mallon, that the onomata of you egraphē in the ouranois.

Grammar Details

• *Plēn*: adverb/conjunction - nevertheless/however
• *mē chairete*: present active imperative, 2nd plural with negative - do not rejoice
• *pneumata*: nominative, neuter, plural - spirits
• *hypotassetai*: present passive indicative, 3rd singular - are subjected/submit
• *chairete*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - rejoice
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but
• *mallon*: adverb - rather/more
• *onomata*: nominative, neuter, plural - names
• *egraphē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd singular - have been written
• *ouranois*: dative, masculine, plural - heavens

Word Meanings

• *Plēn*: nevertheless/however/yet
• *chairete*: rejoice/be glad
• *pneumata*: spirits/breath
• *hypotassetai*: are subjected/submit/yield to/obey
• *mallon*: rather/more/instead
• *onomata*: names/reputations
• *egraphē*: have been written/recorded/inscribed
• *ouranois*: heavens/skies

Referenced Verses

• Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
• Dan 12:1 : 1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
• Phil 4:3 : 3 Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.
• Heb 12:23 : 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
• Rev 3:5 : 5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
• Rev 13:8 : 8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, [every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
• Ps 69:28 : 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
• Isa 4:3 : 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;
• Ezek 13:9 : 9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
• Matt 7:22-23 : 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Matt 10:1 : 1 And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness.
• Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.
• Matt 27:5 : 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
• 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.