Luke 21:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀγρυπνεῖτε οὖν, ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ δεόμενοι, ἵνα καταξιωθῆτε ἐκφυγεῖν ταῦτα πάντα τὰ μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι, καὶ σταθῆναι ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ Υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.

Transliteration

Agrypneite oun, in every kairō deomenoi, hina you may be kataxiōthēte ekphygein these panta the things mellonta ginesthai, kai stathēnai emprosthen of the Hyiou of the anthrōpou.

Grammar Details

*Agrypneite*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - watch/be alert
*oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
*kairō*: dative masculine singular - time/season
*deomenoi*: present middle participle, nominative masculine plural - praying
*hina*: purpose conjunction - so that/in order that
*kataxiōthēte*: aorist passive subjunctive, 2nd person plural - be counted worthy
*ekphygein*: aorist active infinitive - to escape
*panta*: accusative neuter plural - all
*mellonta*: present active participle, accusative neuter plural - about to
*ginesthai*: present middle infinitive - to happen
*kai*: conjunction - and
*stathēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to stand
*emprosthen*: preposition - before/in front of
*Hyiou*: genitive masculine singular - Son
*anthrōpou*: genitive masculine singular - man

Word Meanings

*Agrypneite*: watch/be alert/stay awake
*oun*: therefore/then/accordingly
*kairō*: time/season/opportune moment
*deomenoi*: praying/asking/beseeching
*hina*: so that/in order that
*kataxiōthēte*: be counted worthy/be considered worthy
*ekphygein*: to escape/to flee from
*panta*: all/everything
*mellonta*: about to/going to
*ginesthai*: to happen/to occur/to come to pass
*stathēnai*: to stand/to be established
*emprosthen*: before/in front of/in the presence of
*Hyiou*: Son
*anthrōpou*: man/human

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Referenced Verses

1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: {G3754} your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
1 John 2:28 : 28 And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
Luke 18:1 : 1 And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;
1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.
Matt 26:41 : 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Mark 13:33 : 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Mark 13:37 : 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Job 27:10 : 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times?
Eph 6:13-14 : 13 Wherefore {G5124} take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
Acts 10:2 : 2 a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.
1 Thess 5:17 : 17 pray without ceasing;
Jude 1:24 : 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,
1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.
Eph 6:18-19 : 18 with all prayer {G1722} {G2540} {G3956} and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching {G846} thereunto {G5124} in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints, 19 And on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,
Col 4:2 : 2 Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
Ps 1:5 : 5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Mal 3:2 : 2 But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:
Luke 12:37-40 : 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, {G5438} and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye {G3767} also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Luke 20:35 : 35 but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
2 Thess 1:5-6 : 5 [None which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

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