1 Thessalonians 2:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μνημονεύετε γάρ, ἀδελφοί, τὸν κόπον ἡμῶν καὶ τὸν μόχθον: νυκτὸς γὰρ καὶ ἡμέρας ἐργαζόμενοι, πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐπιβαρῆσαί τινα ὑμῶν, ἐκηρύξαμεν εἰς ὑμᾶς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

You mnēmoneuete gar, adelphoi, the kopon of us kai the mochthon: nyktos gar kai hēmeras ergazomenoi, pros the not to epibarēsai anyone of you, we ekēryxamen to you the euangelion of the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *mnēmoneuete*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you remember
• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/because
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *kopon*: accusative, masculine, singular - labor/toil
• *kai*: conjunction - and/also
• *mochthon*: accusative, masculine, singular - hardship/struggle
• *nyktos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of night/by night
• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - of day/by day
• *ergazomenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - working
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - toward/with a view to
• *epibarēsai*: aorist active infinitive - to burden/be a burden
• *ekēryxamen*: aorist active indicative, 1st person plural - we proclaimed/preached
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *kopon*: labor/toil/trouble
• *mochthon*: hardship/struggle/toil
• *ergazomenoi*: working/laboring
• *epibarēsai*: to burden/be a burden/be a weight

Referenced Verses

• Acts 18:3 : 3 And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.
• 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.
• 2 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order, 8 And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you: 9 Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.
• 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.
• 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
• 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day
• 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.
• 2 Cor 12:13-14 : 13 For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong. 14 This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.
• Phil 4:16 : 16 Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 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 2:2 : 2 But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.
• 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.
• 1 Thess 3:10 : 10 Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
• Neh 5:15 : 15 But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
• Neh 5:18 : 18 Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
• Ps 32:4 : 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
• Ps 88:1 : 1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
• Jer 9:1 : 1 If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
• Luke 2:37 : 37 She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
• Acts 20:24 : 24 But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.
• Acts 20:31 : 31 So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.
• Acts 20:34-35 : 34 You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me. 35 In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
• Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,
• Rom 15:16 : 16 To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 15:19 : 19 By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;
• 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;
• 1 Cor 9:6-7 : 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work? 7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
• 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.
• 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.
• 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;