1 John 5:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐσμεν, καὶ ὁ κόσμος ὅλος ἐν τῷ πονηρῷ κεῖται.

Transliteration

We oidamen that from the Theou we esmen, and the kosmos holos in the ponērō keitai.

Grammar Details

• *oidamen*: perfect active indicative, 1st plural - we know
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *ek*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *esmen*: present indicative, 1st plural - we are
• *kosmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - world
• *holos*: nominative, masculine, singular - whole/entire
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *ponērō*: dative, masculine, singular - evil one
• *keitai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd singular - lies/is laid

Word Meanings

• *oidamen*: we know/we understand/we perceive
• *esmen*: we are/we exist
• *kosmos*: world/universe/worldly system
• *holos*: whole/entire/complete
• *ponērō*: evil one/evil/wickedness
• *keitai*: lies/is situated/is placed

Referenced Verses

• Gal 1:4 : 4 Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
• 1 John 4:4-6 : 4 You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them. 6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
• John 12:31 : 31 Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.
• John 16:11 : 11 Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
• John 14:30 : 30 After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;
• Eph 2:2 : 2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
• Rev 13:7-8 : 7 And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation. 8 And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.
• Rev 20:3 : 3 And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
• Rev 20:7-8 : 7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison, 8 And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.
• 1 John 3:24 : 24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
• 1 John 5:13 : 13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.
• 1 John 5:18 : 18 We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.
• John 15:18-19 : 18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you. 19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
• Rom 1:28-32 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right; 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; 30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother, 31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy: 32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
• Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin; 10 As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness; 11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God; 12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one: 13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words: 15 Their feet are quick in running after blood; 16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways; 17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
• Rom 8:16 : 16 The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
• 1 John 5:10 : 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.
• 1 John 3:14 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.