1 Thessalonians 2:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἡμεῖς εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῷ Θεῷ ἀδιαλείπτως, ὅτι, παραλαβόντες λόγον ἀκοῆς παρʼ ἡμῶν, τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐδέξασθε οὐ λόγον ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ καθώς ἐστιν ἀληθῶς, λόγον Θεοῦ, ὃς καὶ ἐνεργεῖται ἐν ὑμῖν τοῖς πιστεύουσιν.

Transliteration

Dia touto kai we eucharistoumen to the Theō adialeiptōs, that, having paralabontes logon of akoēs from us, of the Theou you edexasthe not logon of anthrōpōn, alla kathōs it estin alēthōs, logon of Theou, which kai energeitai in you the ones pisteuousin.

Grammar Details

• *Dia touto*: prepositional phrase - because of this/for this reason
• *kai*: conjunction - and/also
• *eucharistoumen*: present active indicative, 1st person plural - we give thanks
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God
• *adialeiptōs*: adverb - unceasingly/without interruption
• *paralabontes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having received
• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word/message
• *akoēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of hearing
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *edexasthe*: aorist middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you received/accepted
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of men/people
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *kathōs*: comparative adverb - just as/according as
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - it is
• *alēthōs*: adverb - truly/in truth
• *energeitai*: present middle indicative, 3rd person singular - works/is at work
• *pisteuousin*: present active participle, dative, masculine, plural - believing/who believe

Word Meanings

• *adialeiptōs*: unceasingly/without interruption/constantly
• *paralabontes*: having received/taken/accepted
• *akoēs*: hearing/message heard
• *edexasthe*: you received/accepted/welcomed
• *energeitai*: works/is at work/is active/is effective

Referenced Verses

• Heb 4:12 : 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.
• Rom 10:17 : 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• Gal 4:14 : 14 And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
• 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
• 1 Pet 1:25 : 25 But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.
• 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
• 2 Pet 1:16-21 : 16 For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory. 17 For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain. 19 And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts; 20 Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets. 21 For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 17:11 : 11 Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
• Acts 13:48 : 48 And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.
• Acts 16:30-34 : 30 And took them out and said, Sirs, what have I to do to get salvation? 31 And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation. 32 And they gave the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And that same hour of the night, he took them, and when he had given attention to their wounds, he and all his family had baptism straight away. 34 And he took them into his house and gave them food, and he was full of joy, having faith in God with all his family.
• 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
• Acts 17:18-20 : 18 And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead. 19 And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours? 20 For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.
• Acts 17:32 : 32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
• Rom 1:8-9 : 8 First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
• Rom 6:17-18 : 17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed; 18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
• 2 Pet 3:2 : 2 So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.
• 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
• 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith. 5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
• Col 1:6 : 6 Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
• 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
• 1 Thess 1:5-9 : 5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you. 6 And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit; 7 So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything. 9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God, 10 Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.
• Jer 23:28-29 : 28 If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord. 29 Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?
• Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
• Matt 10:13-14 : 13 And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you. 14 And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet.
• Matt 10:20 : 20 Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.
• Matt 10:40 : 40 He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.
• Luke 5:1 : 1 Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;
• Luke 8:11 : 11 Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.
• Luke 8:21 : 21 But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.
• Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
• John 15:3 : 3 You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
• John 17:17 : 17 Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.
• John 17:19 : 19 And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
• Acts 2:41 : 41 Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.
• Acts 8:14 : 14 Now when the Apostles at Jerusalem had news that the people of Samaria had taken the word of God into their hearts, they sent to them Peter and John;
• Acts 10:33 : 33 So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.
• Acts 13:44-46 : 44 And on the Sabbath after, almost all the town came together to give hearing to the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.