John 5:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔχετε μένοντα ἐν ὑμῖν: ὅτι ὃν ἀπέστειλεν ἐκεῖνος, τούτῳ ὑμεῖς οὐ πιστεύετε.

Transliteration

And the logon of him not echete menonta in you: because whom apesteilen that one, in this one you not pisteuete.

Grammar Details

• *logon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - word
• *autou*: personal pronoun, genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *echete*: present active indicative, 2nd plural of *echō* - you have
• *menonta*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - abiding
• *hymin*: personal pronoun, dative, 2nd plural - you
• *hoti*: conjunction - because
• *hon*: relative pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - whom
• *apesteilen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular of *apostellō* - sent
• *ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - that one
• *toutō*: demonstrative pronoun, dative, masculine, singular - in this one
• *hymeis*: personal pronoun, nominative, 2nd plural - you
• *pisteuete*: present active indicative, 2nd plural of *pisteuō* - believe

Word Meanings

• *logon*: word/message/teaching
• *echete menonta*: you have abiding/you have remaining
• *apesteilen*: sent/dispatched/commissioned
• *pisteuete*: believe/trust/have faith in

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:14 : 14 I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.
• Deut 6:6-9 : 6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. 8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; 9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
• Josh 1:8 : 8 Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.
• Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
• Prov 2:1-2 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; 2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
• Prov 7:1-2 : 1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you. 2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
• Isa 49:7 : 7 The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.
• Isa 53:1-3 : 1 Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled? 2 For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure; 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
• John 1:11 : 11 He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.
• John 3:17-21 : 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him. 18 The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen. 21 But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
• John 5:42-43 : 42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
• John 5:46-47 : 46 If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me. 47 If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?
• John 8:37 : 37 I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.
• John 8:46-47 : 46 Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me? 47 He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
• John 12:44-48 : 44 Then Jesus said with a loud voice, He who has faith in me, has faith not in me, but in him who sent me. 45 And he who sees me, sees him who sent me. 46 I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark. 47 And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world. 48 He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.
• John 15:7 : 7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
• Jas 1:21-22 : 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation. 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.