Mark 8:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὃς γὰρ ἂν ἐπαισχυνθῇ με καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους ἐν τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ τῇ μοιχαλίδι καὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ· καὶ ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπαισχυνθήσεται αὐτὸν, ὅταν ἔλθῃ ἐν τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ Πατρὸς αὐτοῦ μετὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων τῶν ἁγίων.

Transliteration

Whoever for might be epaischynthē me and the emous logous in the genea this the moichalidi and hamartōlō; also the Huios of anthrōpou will be epaischynthēsetai him, when he might elthē in the doxē of the Patros of him with the angelōn the hagiōn.

Grammar Details

• *epaischynthē*: verb, aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - he might be ashamed of
• *emous*: adjective, masculine accusative plural - my
• *logous*: noun, masculine accusative plural - words
• *genea*: noun, feminine dative singular - generation
• *moichalidi*: adjective, feminine dative singular - adulterous
• *hamartōlō*: adjective, feminine dative singular - sinful
• *Huios*: noun, masculine nominative singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: noun, masculine genitive singular - of man
• *epaischynthēsetai*: verb, future passive indicative, 3rd person singular - he will be ashamed of
• *elthē*: verb, aorist active subjunctive, 3rd person singular - he might come
• *doxē*: noun, feminine dative singular - glory
• *Patros*: noun, masculine genitive singular - of Father
• *angelōn*: noun, masculine genitive plural - of angels
• *hagiōn*: adjective, masculine genitive plural - holy

Word Meanings

• *epaischynthē*: he might be ashamed of/embarrassed by
• *emous*: my/mine
• *logous*: words/sayings/statements
• *genea*: generation/age/race
• *moichalidi*: adulterous/unfaithful
• *hamartōlō*: sinful/sinning
• *Huios*: Son/descendant
• *anthrōpou*: of man/humanity
• *epaischynthēsetai*: he will be ashamed of/embarrassed by
• *elthē*: he might come/arrive
• *doxē*: glory/splendor/majesty
• *Patros*: of Father/parent
• *angelōn*: of angels/messengers
• *hagiōn*: holy/set apart/sacred

Referenced Verses

• Matt 26:64 : 64 Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
• Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.
• Matt 25:31 : 31 But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:
• Rom 1:16 : 16 For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
• 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.
• 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;
• Matt 24:30 : 30 And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
• Matt 12:39 : 39 But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:
• Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,
• Deut 33:2 : 2 He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.
• Dan 7:10 : 10 A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open.
• Dan 7:13 : 13 I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.
• Zech 14:5 : 5 And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.
• Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
• Matt 10:32-33 : 32 To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven. 33 But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before my Father in heaven.
• Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.
• Mark 14:62 : 62 And Jesus said, I am: and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.
• Luke 9:26 : 26 For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
• Luke 12:8-9 : 8 And I say to you that to everyone who gives witness to me before men, the Son of man will give witness before the angels of God. 9 But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before the angels of God.
• Luke 19:26 : 26 And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
• John 1:14 : 14 And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
• John 1:51 : 51 And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.
• John 5:27 : 27 And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.
• John 12:34 : 34 Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
• Acts 5:41 : 41 So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
• 2 Tim 2:12-13 : 12 If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us: 13 If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
• Heb 11:26 : 26 Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
• Heb 12:2-3 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power. 3 Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
• Heb 13:13 : 13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.
• 1 John 2:23 : 23 He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.
• Jude 1:14-15 : 14 The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints, 15 To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
• 1 Thess 1:7-8 : 7 So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.