Romans 12:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡ ἀγάπη ἀνυπόκριτος. Ἀποστυγοῦντες τὸ πονηρόν· κολλώμενοι τῷ ἀγαθῷ.

Transliteration

The agapē anypokritos. Apostygountes the ponēron; kollōmenoi to the agathō.

Grammar Details

• *agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
• *anypokritos*: nominative, feminine, singular - unhypocritical/sincere
• *apostygountes*: present active participle, nominative, plural - abhorring/detesting
• *ponēron*: accusative, neuter, singular - evil
• *kollōmenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, plural - clinging/adhering
• *agathō*: dative, neuter, singular - to good

Word Meanings

• *agapē*: love/divine love/benevolence
• *anypokritos*: unhypocritical/sincere/genuine/without pretense
• *apostygountes*: abhorring/detesting/hating intensely
• *ponēron*: evil/wickedness/bad
• *kollōmenoi*: clinging/adhering/joining/being joined to
• *agathō*: good/beneficial/useful

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 {G1161} above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
• Ps 34:14 : 14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.
• Ps 97:10 : 10 O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: He preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 101:3 : 3 I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.
• Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
• 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
• Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.
• 1 John 3:18-20 : 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth. 19 {G2532} Hereby {G5129} shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him: 20 because if our heart {G3754} condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
• 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
• 1 Pet 3:10-11 : 10 For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: 11 And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
• Heb 1:9 : 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore {G5124} God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
• Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?
• 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
• 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward {G3956} all.
• 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 prove all things; hold fast that which is good;
• Matt 26:49 : 49 And straightway he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Rabbi; and kissed him.
• John 12:6 : 6 Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
• Acts 11:23 : 23 who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord:
• Ps 119:104 : 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:163 : 163 I hate and abhor falsehood; [But] thy law do I love.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
• Prov 26:25 : 25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not; For there are seven abominations in his heart:
• Ps 36:4 : 4 He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.
• Ps 45:7 : 7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• Ps 55:21 : 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.