Romans 15:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰς τὸ εἶναί με λειτουργὸν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς τὰ Ἔθνη, ἱερουργοῦντα τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἵνα γένηται ἡ προσφορὰ τῶν Ἐθνῶν εὐπρόσδεκτος, ἡγιασμένη ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ.

Transliteration

Eis the einai me leitourgon of Iēsou Christou to the Ethnē, hierourgonta the euangelion of Theou, hina may genētai the prosphora of the Ethnōn euprosdektos, having been hēgiasmenē in Pneumati Hagiō.

Grammar Details

• *Eis*: preposition with accusative - for/unto
• *einai*: present active infinitive - to be
• *leitourgon*: accusative, masculine, singular - minister/servant
• *Iēsou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ
• *Ethnē*: accusative, neuter, plural - Gentiles/nations
• *hierourgonta*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - ministering as priest
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *hina*: conjunction - that/in order that
• *genētai*: aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd person singular - may become
• *prosphora*: nominative, feminine, singular - offering
• *Ethnōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of Gentiles/nations
• *euprosdektos*: nominative, feminine, singular - acceptable
• *hēgiasmenē*: perfect passive participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having been sanctified
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - in Spirit
• *Hagiō*: dative, neuter, singular - Holy

Word Meanings

• *leitourgon*: minister/servant/official
• *Ethnē*: Gentiles/nations/peoples
• *hierourgonta*: ministering as priest/performing sacred service/officiating as priest
• *euangelion*: gospel/good news
• *genētai*: may become/might be/may be
• *prosphora*: offering/sacrifice/presentation
• *Ethnōn*: of Gentiles/of nations/of peoples
• *euprosdektos*: acceptable/well-pleasing/welcome
• *hēgiasmenē*: having been sanctified/having been made holy
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/spirit
• *Hagiō*: Holy/set apart

Referenced Verses

• Phil 2:17 : 17 And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
• Rom 11:13 : 13 But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:
• Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:
• Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,
• Heb 13:16 : 16 But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
• Isa 66:19-20 : 19 And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations. 20 And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
• Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
• 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.
• Acts 13:2 : 2 And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
• Acts 20:24 : 24 But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.
• Acts 20:32 : 32 And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.
• Acts 22:21 : 21 And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.
• Acts 26:17-18 : 17 And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
• Rom 12:1-2 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him. 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
• Rom 15:18 : 18 And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,
• Rom 15:29 : 29 And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.
• 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.
• 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
• 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.
• 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
• 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.
• Gal 2:7-8 : 7 But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision 8 (Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);
• Gal 3:5 : 5 He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?
• Eph 2:18 : 18 Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.
• Eph 2:22-3:1 : 22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit. 1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,
• Phil 4:18 : 18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
• 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.
• 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 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.
• 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.
• 2 Tim 1:11 : 11 Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;