Ephesians 6:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὰ πάσης προσευχῆς καὶ δεήσεως προσευχόμενοι ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ ἐν Πνεύματι, καὶ εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀγρυπνοῦντες ἐν πάσῃ προσκαρτερήσει καὶ δεήσει περὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων·

Transliteration

Through pasēs proseuchēs and deēseōs proseuchomenoi in panti kairō in Pneumati, and eis auto touto agrypnountes in pasē proskarterēsei and deēsei peri pantōn tōn hagiōn;

Grammar Details

• *pasēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - all/every
• *proseuchēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - prayer
• *deēseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - petition/supplication
• *proseuchomenoi*: present participle, nominative, masculine, plural, middle - praying [continuous action]
• *panti*: dative, masculine, singular - every/all
• *kairō*: dative, masculine, singular - time/season/opportunity
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - in Spirit
• *eis auto touto*: preposition + accusative, neuter, singular + demonstrative, accusative, neuter, singular - unto this same thing
• *agrypnountes*: present participle, nominative, masculine, plural, active - being watchful/vigilant [continuous action]
• *pasē*: dative, feminine, singular - all/every
• *proskarterēsei*: dative, feminine, singular - perseverance/persistence
• *deēsei*: dative, feminine, singular - petition/supplication
• *peri*: preposition + genitive - concerning/about
• *pantōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - all
• *hagiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - holy ones/saints

Word Meanings

• *pasēs*: all/every kind of
• *proseuchēs*: prayer/entreaty
• *deēseōs*: petition/supplication/request
• *proseuchomenoi*: praying/entreating
• *panti*: every/all/each
• *kairō*: time/season/opportunity/moment
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/spirit [divine]
• *eis auto touto*: unto this same thing/for this very purpose
• *agrypnountes*: being watchful/vigilant/staying alert
• *proskarterēsei*: perseverance/persistence/steadfastness
• *deēsei*: petition/supplication/request
• *hagiōn*: holy ones/saints/sanctified ones

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 Keep on with your prayers.
• Col 4:2 : 2 Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;
• Phil 4:6 : 6 Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
• 1 Tim 2:1 : 1 My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;
• Jude 1:20 : 20 But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,
• Eph 1:16 : 16 Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;
• Mark 13:33 : 33 Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.
• Mark 14:38 : 38 Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
• Matt 26:41 : 41 Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
• Luke 18:1-8 : 1 And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired; 2 Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man: 3 And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong. 4 And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man, 5 Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming. 6 And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge. 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? 8 I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?
• Luke 21:36 : 36 But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
• Luke 22:46 : 46 And he said, Why are you sleeping? Get up, and give yourselves to prayer, so that you may not be put to the test.
• Acts 1:14 : 14 And they all with one mind gave themselves up to prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
• Dan 9:20 : 20 And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
• Phil 1:4 : 4 And in all my prayers for you all, making my request with joy,
• 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
• Hos 12:4 : 4 In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
• Gen 32:24-28 : 24 Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn. 25 But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged. 26 And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing. 27 Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
• 1 Kgs 8:52 : 52 Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you.
• 1 Kgs 8:54 : 54 Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;
• 1 Kgs 8:59 : 59 And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need.
• 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
• Esth 4:8 : 8 And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.
• Job 27:10 : 10 Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
• Ps 4:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on corded instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.
• Ps 6:9 : 9 The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.
• Isa 26:16 : 16 Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
• Dan 6:10 : 10 For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.
• Luke 11:5-8 : 5 And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread; 6 Because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to put before him; 7 And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you? 8 I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.
• Eph 3:18 : 18 May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,
• Eph 6:19 : 19 And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,
• Col 1:4 : 4 After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,
• Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:
• Acts 6:4 : 4 Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.
• Acts 10:2 : 2 A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
• Acts 12:5 : 5 So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.
• Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
• Rom 8:26-27 : 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say; 27 And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.
• Rom 12:12 : 12 Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
• Gal 4:6 : 6 And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
• Matt 15:25-28 : 25 But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord. 26 And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs. 27 But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table. 28 Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
• Luke 3:26 : 26 The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,
• Luke 3:37 : 37 The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
• Phlm 1:5 : 5 Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;
• Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.