Romans 16:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡ γὰρ ὑμῶν ὑπακοὴ εἰς πάντας ἀφίκετο. Χαίρω οὖν τὸ ἐφʼ ὑμῖν: θέλω δὲ ὑμᾶς σοφοὺς μὲν εἶναι εἰς τὸ ἀγαθόν, ἀκεραίους δὲ εἰς τὸ κακόν.

Transliteration

For the of-you hypakoē to all aphiketo. Chairō therefore the over you: thelō de you sophous men einai to the agathon, akeraious de to the kakon.

Grammar Details

• γὰρ: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• ὑμῶν: genitive plural pronoun - of you/your
• *hypakoē*: nominative feminine singular - obedience
• εἰς: preposition with accusative - to
• πάντας: accusative masculine plural - all
• *aphiketo*: aorist indicative middle, 3rd person singular - has reached/has become known
• *Chairō*: present indicative active, 1st person singular - rejoice/am glad
• οὖν: inferential conjunction - therefore/then
• ἐφʼ: preposition with dative - over/concerning
• ὑμῖν: dative plural pronoun - you
• *thelō*: present indicative active, 1st person singular - want/wish
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• ὑμᾶς: accusative plural pronoun - you
• *sophous*: accusative masculine plural - wise
• *men*: postpositive particle - indeed/on the one hand
• *einai*: present infinitive - to be
• *agathon*: accusative neuter singular - good
• *akeraious*: accusative masculine plural - innocent/unmixed
• *kakon*: accusative neuter singular - evil

Word Meanings

• *hypakoē*: obedience/compliance
• *aphiketo*: has reached/has become known/has gone out
• *Chairō*: rejoice/am glad/delight
• *thelō*: want/wish/desire
• *sophous*: wise/skilled/learned
• *einai*: to be/exist
• *agathon*: good/what is good
• *akeraious*: innocent/unmixed/pure/simple
• *kakon*: evil/what is evil

Referenced Verses

• Matt 10:16 : 16 See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
• 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
• Rom 1:8 : 8 First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.
• Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
• Phil 1:9 : 9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;
• Phil 2:15 : 15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
• 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.
• 1 Thess 3:6-9 : 6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you; 7 For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith; 8 For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged. 9 For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God; 10 Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
• 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
• Luke 10:3 : 3 Go on your way: see, I send you out like lambs among wolves.
• 1 Kgs 3:9-9 : 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people? 10 Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord. 11 And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes; 12 I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
• Ps 101:2 : 2 I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.
• Isa 11:2-3 : 2 And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3 And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
• Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
• Eph 1:15-18 : 15 For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints, 16 Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; 18 And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
• Eph 5:17 : 17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.
• 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
• 1 Thess 1:8-9 : 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. 9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,
• Col 1:3-9 : 3 We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times, 4 After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints, 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; 7 As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us, 8 And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit. 9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,