1 Thessalonians 3:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ ἡμῶν, καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, κατευθύναι τὴν ὁδὸν ἡμῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Transliteration

Autos but the Theos and Patēr of us, and the Kyrios of us Iēsous Christos, may kateuthynai the hodon of us pros you.

Grammar Details

• *Autos*: intensive pronoun, nominative singular masculine - himself
• *Theos*: nominative singular masculine - God
• *Patēr*: nominative singular masculine - Father
• *Kyrios*: nominative singular masculine - Lord
• *Iēsous Christos*: nominative singular masculine - Jesus Christ
• *kateuthynai*: aorist active optative, 3rd person singular - may direct/guide
• *hodon*: accusative singular feminine - way/road/journey
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward

Word Meanings

• *kateuthynai*: may direct/guide/make straight
• *hodon*: way/road/path/journey

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support. 6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
• Mal 1:6 : 6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
• Matt 6:14 : 14 For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.
• Matt 6:18 : 18 So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
• Matt 6:26 : 26 See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?
• Mark 1:3 : 3 The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;
• Luke 12:30 : 30 For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.
• Luke 12:32 : 32 Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
• Matt 6:6 : 6 But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
• Rom 1:3 : 3 About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,
• Ezra 8:21-23 : 21 Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance. 22 For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him. 23 So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
• 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:
• 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
• Col 1:2 : 2 To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
• 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.
• Matt 6:8-9 : 8 So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him. 9 Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• John 20:17 : 17 Jesus said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.
• Matt 6:32 : 32 Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:
• Matt 6:4 : 4 So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.