Romans 1:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ γὰρ ἐπαισχύνομαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ: δύναμις γὰρ Θεοῦ ἐστιν εἰς σωτηρίαν παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι· Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτον, καὶ Ἕλληνι.

Transliteration

Ou gar epaischynomai the euangelion the Christou: dynamis gar Theou estin eis sōtērian panti the pisteuonti· Ioudaiō te prōton, kai Hellēni.

Grammar Details

• *Ou*: negative particle - not
• *gar*: conjunction - for
• *epaischynomai*: present middle indicative, 1st person singular - I am ashamed
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ
• *dynamis*: nominative, feminine, singular - power
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - it is
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - unto
• *sōtērian*: accusative, feminine, singular - salvation
• *panti*: dative, masculine, singular, adjective - to everyone
• *pisteuonti*: present active participle, dative, masculine, singular - believing
• *Ioudaiō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Jew
• *te*: conjunction - both
• *prōton*: adverb - first
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *Hellēni*: dative, masculine, singular - to Greek

Word Meanings

• *epaischynomai*: I am ashamed/embarrassed
• *euangelion*: gospel/good news
• *dynamis*: power/might/strength
• *sōtērian*: salvation/deliverance/preservation
• *pisteuonti*: believing/trusting/having faith

Referenced Verses

• Mark 8:38 : 38 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.
• 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;
• Ps 40:9-9 : 9 I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words. 10 Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.
• 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.
• 1 Pet 4:16 : 16 But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.
• 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.
• Rom 2:9 : 9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
• Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
• Jer 23:29 : 29 Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
• Gal 1:7 : 7 Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.
• Rom 10:17 : 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:18-24 : 18 For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God. 19 As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge. 20 Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him. 22 Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge: 23 But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles; 24 But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
• 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:
• Acts 3:26 : 26 To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.
• Isa 53:1 : 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?
• Ps 119:46 : 46 So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.
• Luke 2:10-11 : 10 And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people: 11 For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.
• 1 Thess 1:5-6 : 5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you. 6 And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;
• 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.
• 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;
• 2 Cor 9:13 : 13 For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;
• 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 (For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places); 5 Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;
• 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him. 15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; 16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
• 1 Cor 9:18 : 18 What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.
• 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
• 2 Cor 2:12 : 12 Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,
• 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all; 25 The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
• Col 1:5-6 : 5 Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news, 6 Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
• 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.
• 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.
• Rom 15:19 : 19 By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;
• Rom 15:29 : 29 And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.
• Rom 4:11 : 11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
• Ps 71:15-16 : 15 My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured. 16 I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.