Romans 1:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπιποθῶ γὰρ ἰδεῖν ὑμᾶς, ἵνα τι μεταδῶ χάρισμα ὑμῖν πνευματικόν, εἰς τὸ στηριχθῆναι ὑμᾶς·

Transliteration

Epipothō gar idein hymas, hina ti metadō charisma hymin pneumatikon, eis the stērichthēnai hymas·

Grammar Details

• *Epipothō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I long for/desire
• *gar*: conjunction - for
• *idein*: aorist active infinitive - to see
• *hymas*: accusative, plural, personal pronoun - you
• *hina*: conjunction - in order that
• *ti*: accusative, neuter, singular, indefinite pronoun - some
• *metadō*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st person singular - I might impart/share
• *charisma*: accusative, neuter, singular - gift
• *hymin*: dative, plural, personal pronoun - to you
• *pneumatikon*: accusative, neuter, singular, adjective - spiritual
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - for
• *stērichthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be strengthened/established

Word Meanings

• *Epipothō*: I long for/desire/yearn
• *metadō*: impart/share/give
• *charisma*: gift/favor/blessing
• *pneumatikon*: spiritual/of the spirit
• *stērichthēnai*: to be strengthened/established/confirmed

Referenced Verses

• Rom 15:23 : 23 but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,
• Rom 15:29 : 29 And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
• Acts 8:15-19 : 15 who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit: 16 for as yet it was fallen upon none of them: only they had been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 18 Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, 19 saying, Give me also this power, that {G302} on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 19:6 : 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
• Rom 16:25 : 25 Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal,
• 1 Cor 12:1-9 : 1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever {G302} ye might led. 3 Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of workings, but {G2076} the same God, who worketh all things in all. 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. 8 For to one {G3303} is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: 9 to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.
• 2 Cor 1:21 : 21 Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
• 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
• 2 Cor 11:4 : 4 For if {G3303} he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with [him].
• Gal 3:2-5 : 2 This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh? 4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain. 5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it {G1487} but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
• Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
• Phil 2:26 : 26 since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:
• Phil 4:1 : 1 Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
• 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort [you] concerning your faith;
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus {G5547} with all his saints.
• 2 Thess 2:17 : 17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
• 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil [one].
• 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 5:10 : 10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, {G2424} after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself {G5209} perfect, establish, strengthen you.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account [him], I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand ye fast {G3739} therein.
• 2 Pet 1:12 : 12 Wherefore I shall be {G3756} ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you].
• 2 Pet 3:17-18 : 17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for {G2250} ever. Amen.
• Acts 19:21 : 21 Now after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
• Acts 16:5 : 5 {G3303} So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
• 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
• 2 Chr 20:20 : 20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Jehovah your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
• Rom 15:32 : 32 that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest.
• Gen 31:30 : 30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
• 2 Sam 23:15 : 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!