Luke 18:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὰς ἐντολὰς οἶδας, Μὴ μοιχεύσῃς, Μὴ φονεύσῃς, Μὴ κλέψῃς, Μὴ ψευδομαρτυρήσῃς, Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα σου.

Transliteration

The entolas oidas, Not moicheusēs, Not phoneusēs, Not klepsēs, Not pseudomartyrēsēs, Tima the patera of-you and the mētera of-you.

Grammar Details

• *entolas*: accusative feminine plural - commandments
• *oidas*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person singular - you know
• *moicheusēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might commit adultery
• *phoneusēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might murder
• *klepsēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might steal
• *pseudomartyrēsēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might bear false witness
• *Tima*: present active imperative, 2nd person singular - honor
• *patera*: accusative masculine singular - father
• *mētera*: accusative feminine singular - mother

Word Meanings

• *entolas*: commandments/orders/instructions
• *oidas*: you know/have known
• *moicheusēs*: you might commit adultery [used as prohibition]
• *phoneusēs*: you might murder/kill [used as prohibition]
• *klepsēs*: you might steal [used as prohibition]
• *pseudomartyrēsēs*: you might bear false witness/testify falsely [used as prohibition]
• *Tima*: honor/value/respect

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:12-17 : 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 13 Do not put anyone to death without cause. 14 Do not be false to the married relation. 15 Do not take the property of another. 16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour. 17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
• Rom 13:9 : 9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
• Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law. 11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them. 13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
• Eph 6:2 : 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),
• Col 3:20 : 20 Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
• Jas 2:8-9 : 8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well: 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law. 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all. 11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
• Deut 5:16-21 : 16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 17 Do not put anyone to death without cause. 18 Do not be false to the married relation. 19 Do not take the property of another. 20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour; 21 Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
• Matt 19:17-19 : 17 And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law. 18 He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, 19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
• Mark 10:18-19 : 18 And Jesus said to him, Why do you say I am good? no one is good but one, and that is God. 19 You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.
• Luke 10:26-28 : 26 And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it? 27 And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself. 28 And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.
• Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's. 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. 9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death; 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.