Titus 3:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἵνα δικαιωθέντες τῇ ἐκείνου χάριτι, κληρονόμοι γενώμεθα κατʼ ἐλπίδα ζωῆς αἰωνίου.

Transliteration

So that dikaiōthentes tē ekeinou chariti, klēronomoi genōmetha kat' elpida zōēs aiōniou.

Grammar Details

• So that: conjunction (Ἵνα) - so that/in order that
• *dikaiōthentes*: aorist passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been justified
• *tē*: dative, feminine, singular - by the
• *ekeinou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of that one/his
• *chariti*: dative, feminine, singular - grace/favor
• *klēronomoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - heirs
• *genōmetha*: aorist middle subjunctive, 1st plural - we might become
• *kat'*: preposition + accusative - according to
• *elpida*: accusative, feminine, singular - hope
• *zōēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of life
• *aiōniou*: genitive, feminine, singular - eternal

Word Meanings

• *dikaiōthentes*: having been justified/declared righteous/made righteous
• *ekeinou*: of that one/his/that person's
• *chariti*: grace/favor/kindness
• *klēronomoi*: heirs/inheritors
• *genōmetha*: we might become/we might be made
• *elpida*: hope/expectation
• *zōēs*: of life/of living
• *aiōniou*: eternal/everlasting/endless

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:17 : 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified with [him].
• Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;
• Rom 3:24 : 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
• Titus 2:11 : 11 For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• Heb 6:17 : 17 Wherein {G1722} God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
• Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
• Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
• Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
• 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, {G2532} as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
• Gal 2:16 : 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but {G3361} through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
• Gal 3:29 : 29 And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, {G2532} heirs according to promise.
• Gal 4:7 : 7 So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir {G2316} through God.
• Rom 3:28 : 28 We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
• Rom 4:4 : 4 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.
• Rom 4:16 : 16 For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
• Rom 5:1-2 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Rom 5:15-21 : 15 But not as the trespass, so also [is] the free gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto the many. 16 And not as through one that sinned, [so] is the gift: for the judgment [came] of one unto condemnation, but the free gift [came] of many trespasses unto justification. 17 For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, [even] Jesus Christ. 18 So then as through one trespass [the judgment came] unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness [the free gift came] unto all men to justification of life. 19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous. 20 And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly: 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 8:23-24 : 23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for {G5101} who {G2532} hopeth for that which he seeth?
• Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is by grace, {G3765} it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.