1 John 5:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες εν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ Πατήρ, ὁ Λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα: καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι.

Transliteration

For treis eisin the marturountes in the ouranō, the Patēr, the Logos, and the Hagion Pneuma: and these the treis hen eisi.

Grammar Details

• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
• *treis*: nominative, masculine, plural - three
• *eisin*: present indicative, 3rd plural - are
• *marturountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - witnessing/testifying
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *ouranō*: dative, masculine, singular - heaven
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *Logos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Word
• *Hagion*: nominative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *Pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *houtoi*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural - these
• *hen*: nominative, neuter, singular - one
• *eisi*: present indicative, 3rd plural - are

Word Meanings

• *marturountes*: witnessing/testifying/giving evidence
• *ouranō*: heaven/sky/firmament
• *Patēr*: Father/progenitor
• *Logos*: Word/reason/account
• *Hagion*: Holy/set apart/sacred
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *hen*: one/unified/single entity

Referenced Verses

• Matt 28:19 : 19 Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
• 2 Cor 13:14 : 14 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
• 1 John 1:1 : 1 That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life
• Rev 1:4-5 : 4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat; 5 And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
• Rev 19:13 : 13 And he is clothed in a robe washed with blood: and his name is The Word of God.
• Isa 48:16-17 : 16 Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit. 17 The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.
• Acts 5:32 : 32 And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.
• 1 Cor 12:4-6 : 4 Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord. 6 And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.
• Deut 6:4 : 4 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
• Ps 33:6 : 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.
• Isa 61:1 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
• Matt 3:16-17 : 16 And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove; 17 And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
• Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.
• Matt 18:16 : 16 But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
• John 1:1 : 1 From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.
• John 1:32-34 : 32 And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him. 33 I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit. 34 This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.
• John 5:26 : 26 For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
• John 8:13-14 : 13 So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true. 14 Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.
• John 8:18 : 18 I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.
• John 8:54 : 54 Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.
• John 10:30 : 30 I and my Father are one.
• John 10:37-38 : 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not have belief in me; 38 But if I am doing them, then have belief in the works even if you have no belief in me; so that you may see clearly and be certain that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
• John 12:28 : 28 Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.
• Acts 2:33 : 33 And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.
• 1 John 5:6 : 6 This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.
• 1 John 5:10-11 : 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. 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Heb 2:3-4 : 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came; 4 And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.
• Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.