1 Thessalonians 1:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For our Gospell came not vnto you in worde only, but also in power, and in the holy ghost, and in much certayntie, as ye knowe after what maner we were among you for your sake.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐγενήθη εἰς ὑμᾶς ἐν λόγῳ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν δυνάμει, καὶ ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ, καὶ ἐν πληροφορίᾳ πολλῇ· καθὼς οἴδατε οἷοι ἐγενήθημεν ἐν ὑμῖν διʼ ὑμᾶς.

Transliteration

Because the euangelion of-us not egenēthē to you in logō monon, but also in dynamei, and in Pneumati Hagiō, and in plērophoria pollē; just-as you-oidate what-kind egenēthēmen among you because-of you.

Grammar Details

• *euangelion*: nominative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
• *egenēthē*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - became/happened
• *logō*: dative, masculine, singular - in word/message/speech
• *monon*: adverb - only/alone/merely
• *dynamei*: dative, feminine, singular - in power/might/strength
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - in Spirit
• *Hagiō*: dative, neuter, singular - in Holy
• *plērophoria*: dative, feminine, singular - in full assurance/conviction
• *pollē*: dative, feminine, singular - in much/great
• *oidate*: perfect, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you know/have known
• *egenēthēmen*: aorist, passive, indicative, 1st person plural - we became/happened

Word Meanings

• *euangelion*: gospel/good news/glad tidings
• *egenēthē*: became/happened/came to be
• *logō*: word/message/speech/account
• *dynamei*: power/might/strength/ability
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *plērophoria*: full assurance/complete conviction/certainty
• *oidate*: know/have known/understand
• *egenēthēmen*: became/happened/came to be

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 Wherevnto he called you by our Gospell, to the obteyning of the glorie of our Lorde Iesus Christe.
• Col 2:2 : 2 That their heartes myght be comforted, beyng knyt together in loue, and in al riches of certaintie of vnderstanding, to knowe the misterie of God, and of the father, and of Christe,
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 Unto which prophetes it was also declared, that not vnto them selues, but vnto vs, they shoulde minister ye thinges which are nowe shewed vnto you of them, which by the holy ghost sent downe from heauen, haue in the Gospell preached vnto you, the thynges which the Angels desire to beholde.
• 1 Thess 2:1-9 : 1 For ye your selues, brethren, knowe our entraunce in vnto you, yt it was not in vayne: 2 But euen after that we had suffred before, and were shamefully entreated as ye knowe, at Philippos, we were bolde in our God, to speake vnto you the Gospell of God, in much stryuyng. 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, neither of vncleannes, neither in guile: 4 But as it were alowed of God, to be put in credite with the Gospell: euen so we speake, not as pleasyng men, but God, which tryeth our heartes. 5 For neither at any tyme vsed we flatteryng wordes, as ye knowe, neither cloke of couetousnes, God is recorde, 6 Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others: 7 When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren, 8 So, beyng tenderly affected towarde you, our good wyll was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospell of God only: but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs. 9 For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God. 10 Ye are witnesses, & God also howe holyly, and iustly, and vnblameably, we behaued our selues among you that beleue. 11 As ye knowe, howe that as a father his chyldren, so we haue exhorted, comforted, and besought euery one of you,
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause thanke we God also without ceassyng, because ye receauyng the worde which ye hearde of vs concernyng God, ye receaued it not as the worde of man, (but as it is in deede) the worde of God, which effectuously worketh also in you that beleue.
• Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not erre my deare brethren. 17 Euery good geuyng, and euery perfect gyft is from aboue, and cometh downe from the father of lyghtes, with who is no variablenes, neither shadow of turnyng. 18 Of his owne wyll begat he vs with the worde of trueth, that we shoulde be the first fruites of his creatures.
• 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, which accordyng to his aboundaunt mercie begat vs agayne vnto a lyuely hope, by that that Iesus Christe rose agayne from death,
• 2 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 For ye your selues knowe howe ye ought to folowe vs: For we behaued not our selues inordinately among you, 8 Neither toke we breade of any man for nought: but wrought with labour and sweat nyght and daye, because we woulde not be chargeable to any of you. 9 Not but that we had auctoritie, but to make our selues an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.
• 1 Tim 4:12-16 : 12 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou a paterne of the beleuers, in worde, in conuersation, in loue, in spirite, in fayth, in chastitie. 13 Tyll I come geue attendaunce to readyng, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Despise not the gyfte that is in thee, which was geuen thee through prophesie, with the laying on of handes by the auctoritie of the eldership. 15 Haue a care of these thinges, and geue thy selfe vnto them, that it may be seene howe thou profitest in all thynges. 16 Take heede vnto thy selfe, and vnto doctrine, and continue therein: For in doying this, thou shalt both saue thy selfe, and them that heare thee.
• 2 Tim 2:8 : 8 Remember that Iesus Christe, of the seede of Dauid, was raysed from the dead, accordyng to my Gospell,
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therfore I suffer all thynges for the electes sakes, that they myght also obtaine the saluation, which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glorie.
• Heb 2:3-4 : 3 Howe shall we escape, yf we neglect so great saluation? which at the first began to be preached of the Lorde, and was confirmed vnto vswarde, by them that hearde it: 4 God bearyng witnesse therto both with signes & wonders also, and with diuers powers and gyftes of the holy ghost, accordyng to his owne wyll.
• Heb 6:11 : 11 Yea and we desire that euery one of you do shewe the same diligence, to the full assuraunce of hope, vnto the ende,
• Heb 6:18-19 : 18 That by two immutable thynges, in whiche it was vnpossible for God to lye, we myght haue a strong consolation, which haue fledde to holde fast the hope layde before vs: 19 Which hope we holde as an ancker of the soule both sure and stedfast, and entryng in, into that thing which is within the vayle:
• Isa 55:11 : 11 So the worde also that commeth out of my mouth shall not turne agayne voyde vnto me, but shall accomplishe my wyll, and prosper in the thing wherto I sende it.
• Mark 16:20 : 20 And they went foorth, and preached euerywhere, the Lorde workyng with them, and confirmyng the worde with signes folowyng.
• John 16:7-9 : 7 Neuerthelesse, I tell you the trueth, it is expedient for you that I go away. For yf I go not away, that comforter wyll not come vnto you: But yf I depart, I wyll sende hym vnto you. 8 And whe he is come, he wyll rebuke the world of sinne, and of righteousnes, and of iudgement. 9 Of sinne, because they beleue not on me. 10 Of righteousnes, because I go to my father, and ye shall see me no more. 11 Of iudgement, because the prince of this worlde is iudged alredy. 12 I haue yet many thynges to say vnto you, but ye can not beare them away nowe. 13 Howebeit, when he is come, whiche is the spirite of trueth, he wyl leade you into all trueth. He shall not speake of himselfe: but whatsoeuer he shal heare, that shall he speake, and he wyll shewe you thynges to come. 14 He shall glorifie me: For he shall receaue of mine, and shal shewe vnto you. 15 All thynges that the father hath, are mine: Therfore sayde I vnto you that he shall take of mine, & shew vnto you.
• Acts 2:33 : 33 Then sence that he by the ryght hande of God was exalted, and hath receaued of the father the promise of the holy ghost, he hath shed foorth this, which ye nowe see, and heare.
• Acts 10:44-46 : 44 Whyle Peter yet spake these wordes, the holy ghost fell on all them whiche hearde the worde. 45 And they of the circumcision which beleued, were astonied, as many as came with Peter, because that on the gentiles also was shedde out the gyft of the holy ghost. 46 For they hearde them speake with tounges, & magnifie God. Then aunswered Peter:
• Acts 11:15-18 : 15 And as I began to speake, the holy ghost fell on them, as he dyd on vs at the begynnyng. 16 Then came it to my remembraunce, howe that the Lorde sayde: Iohn baptized with water, but ye shalbe baptized with the holy ghost. 17 For as much then, as God gaue them the lyke gyft as he dyd vnto vs, when we beleued on the Lorde Iesus Christ: what was I, that I shoulde haue withstande God? 18 When they hearde these thynges, they helde their peace, and glorified God, saying: Then hath God also to ye Gentiles, graunted repentaunce vnto lyfe.
• Acts 11:21 : 21 And the hande of the Lorde was with them, and a great number beleued and turned vnto the Lorde.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certayne woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the citie of the Thyatirians, which worshipped God, gaue vs audience: Whose hearte the Lorde opened, that she attended vnto the thynges which Paul spake.
• Acts 20:18-19 : 18 Which when they were come to hym, he saide vnto them: Ye knowe from the first daye that I came into Asia, after what maner I haue ben with you at all seasons. 19 Seruyng the Lorde with all humblenesse of mynde, and with many teares, and temptations whiche came vnto me by the layinges awayte of the Iewes:
• Acts 20:33-35 : 33 I haue desired no mans syluer, golde, or vesture. 34 Yea, ye your selues knowe, that these handes haue ministred vnto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35 I haue shewed you all thinges, howe that so labouryng ye ought to receaue the weake, and to remember ye wordes of the Lorde Iesu, howe that he said, it is more blessed to geue, then to receaue.
• Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ, because it is the power of God vnto saluation to all that beleue, to the Iewe first, and also to the Greke.
• Rom 2:16 : 16 At the day when God shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christe, accordyng to my Gospell.
• Rom 15:18-19 : 18 For I dare not speake of any of those thinges which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the gentiles obedient with worde and deede, 19 In myghtie signes and wonders, by the power of the spirite of God: so that from Hierusalem, & the coastes rounde about, vnto Illyricum, I haue fullye preached the Gospell of Christe.
• 1 Cor 1:24 : 24 But vnto them which are called both of the Iewes and Grekes we preache Christe the power of God, and the wisedome of God.
• 1 Cor 2:2-5 : 2 For I esteemed not to knowe any thyng among you saue Iesus Christe, and hym crucified. 3 And I was among you in weaknesse, and in feare, and in much tremblyng. 4 And my wordes and my preachyng was not with entysing wordes of mans wisedome, but in shewyng of the spirite, and of power: 5 That your fayth should not stande in the wisedome of men, but in the power of God.
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I haue planted, Apollo watered: but God gaue the encrease.
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Knowe ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirite of God dwelleth in you?
• 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For me thynketh, that God hath set foorth vs, whiche are the last apostles, as it were men appoynted to death. For we are made a gasyng stocke vnto the worlde, and to the angels, and to men. 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christe. We are weake, but ye are stronge. Ye are honorable, but we are despised. 11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place. 12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euyll spoken of, and we praye: we are made as the fylthynesse of the worlde, the ofscowryng of all thynges vnto this day.
• 1 Cor 4:20 : 20 For the kyngdome of God is not in worde, but in power.
• 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For though I be free from all men, yet haue I made my selfe seruaunt vnto all men, that I might win the mo. 20 Unto the Iewes, I become as a Iewe, that I might win the Iewes: To them that are vnder the lawe, I become as though I were vnder the lawe, that I might win them that are vnder the lawe: 21 To them that are without lawe, become as though I were without lawe, (when I was not without law as parteyning to the lawe of God, but in the lawe of Christe) to winne them that are without lawe. 22 To the weake became I as weake, that I might winne the weake. I am made all thinges to all men, that I might at the least way saue some. 23 And this I do for the Gospels sake, that I might haue my part therof.
• 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 Euen as I please all men in all thynges, not seking myne owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.
• 1 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 The manifestation of the spirite, is geuen to euery man, to profite withall. 8 For to one is geuen by the spirite, the worde of wisdome, to another the word of knowledge, by the same spirite: 9 To another is geuen fayth, by the same spirite: to another the giftes of healyng by the same spirite: 10 To another, power to do miracles, to another, prophesie, to another iudgement to discerne spirites, to another, diuers kyndes of tongues, to another, the interpretation of tongues. 11 But these all worketh euen one and the selfe same spirite, deuidyng to euery man a seuerall gyft, as he wyll.
• 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Which hath made vs able ministers of the newe testament, not of the letter, but of the spirite: For the letter kylleth, but the spirite geueth lyfe.
• 2 Cor 4:1-3 : 1 Therfore, seyng that we haue such a ministerie, as we haue receaued mercie, we faynt not: 2 But haue cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie, and walke not in craftynesse, neither handle we the word of God disceitefully, but in openyng of the trueth, and report our selues to euery mans conscience in the syght of God. 3 Yf our Gospell be yet hyd, it is hyd in them that are lost:
• 2 Cor 6:3-9 : 3 Let vs geue none occasion of euyll in any thyng, that the ministerie be not blamed: 4 But in all thynges let vs behaue our selues as ye ministers of God, in much pacience, in afflictions, in necessities, in anguisshes, 5 In stripes, in prisonmentes, in strifes, in labours, 6 In watchynges, in fastinges, in purenesse, in knowledge, in long suffryng, in kyndnesse, in the holy ghost, in loue vnfaigned: 7 In the worde of trueth, in the power of God, by the armour of righteousnes, of the ryght hande and on the lefte, 8 By honour and dishonour, by euyll report and good report, as deceauers and yet true, 9 As vnknowen, and yet knowen, as dying, and beholde we lyue, as chastened, and not kylled, 10 As sorowyng, and yet alway merie: as poore, and yet make many riche: as hauyng nothyng, and yet possessyng all thynges.
• 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but myghtie through God, to cast downe strong holdes, 5 Wherwith we ouerthrowe counsels, and euery hye thyng, that is exalted agaynst the knowledge of God, & bryng into captiuitie all imagination, to the obedience of Christe,
• Gal 1:8-9 : 8 Neuerthelesse, though we, or an Angel from heauen, preache any other Gospel vnto you, then that which we haue preached vnto you, let hym be accursed. 9 As we sayde before, so say I nowe agayne, yf any man preache any other Gospell vnto you, then that ye haue receaued, let hym be accursed. 10 Do I nowe perswade men, or God? Other do I seke to please men? For yf I shoulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christe. 11 I certifie you brethren, that the Gospell which was preached of me, was not after man. 12 For I neither receaued it of man, neither was I taught it but by the reuelation of Iesus Christe.
• Gal 2:2 : 2 I went vp also by reuelation, & I declared vnto them the Gospel which I preache among the gentiles: but priuately, with them which were the chiefe, lest by any meanes, I shoulde runne or had runne in vayne.
• Gal 3:2-5 : 2 This only woulde I learne of you, whether ye receaued the spirite by the deedes of the lawe, or by the hearyng of the fayth? 3 Are ye such fooles, that after ye haue begun in the spirite, ye woulde nowe ende in the fleshe? 4 Haue ye suffered so great thynges in vayne? Yf it be yet in vayne. 5 He therfore that ministreth to you the spirite, and worketh miracles among you, doth he it through the deedes of the lawe, or by hearyng of the fayth?
• Gal 5:5 : 5 For we through the spirite, wayte for the hope of ryghteousnes by fayth.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruite of the spirite is, loue, ioye, peace, long sufferyng, gentlenesse, goodnesse, fayth, 23 Mekenesse, temperauncie: agaynst such there is no lawe.
• Eph 1:17-20 : 17 That the God of our Lorde Iesus Christe, the father of glorie, may geue vnto you the spirite of wisdome and reuelation, in the knowledge of hym: 18 The eyes of your myndes beyng lightened, that ye maye knowe what the hope is of his callyng, and what the richesse of the glorie of his inheritaunce is in the saintes: 19 And what is the exceedyng greatnesse of his power to vswarde, which beleue, accordyng to the workyng of his myghtie power, 20 Which he wrought in Christe when he raysed hym from the dead, and set him on his ryght hande in heauenly places
• Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God which is ryche in mercie, for his great loue wherwith he loued vs, 5 Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickned vs together with Christ, by grace are ye saued:
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christe Iesus vnto good workes, whiche God hath ordeyned that we shoulde walke in them.
• Eph 3:20 : 20 Unto him that is able to do exceeding aboundauntly aboue all that we aske or thynke, accordyng to the power that worketh in vs,
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of good wyll.
• Phil 4:9 : 9 Which ye haue both learned, and receaued, and hearde, and seene in me: Those thinges do, and the God of peace shalbe with you.
• Heb 10:22 : 22 Let vs drawe nye with a true hearte, in assuraunce of fayth, sprinkeled in our heartes from an euyll conscience, and wasshed in body with pure water.
• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 Not of workes which be in ryghteousnesse wrought, but accordyng to his mercie, he saued vs by the fountayne of regeneration and renuyng of the holy ghost, 6 Which he shed on vs richlie through Iesus Christe our sauiour:
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Not as though ye were Lordes ouer God his heritage: but that ye be an ensample to the flocke.
• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherfore brethren, geue the more diligence for to make your callyng and election sure: For yf ye do such thynges, ye shall neuer fall.
• 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 We haue also a ryght sure worde of prophesie, wherevnto yf ye take heede, as vnto a lyght that shyneth in a darke place, ye do well, vntyll the day dawne, and the day starre arise in your heartes.
• Ps 10:2-3 : 2 The vngodly of a wylfulnesse persecuteth the poore: but euery one of them shalbe taken in the craftie wylines that they haue imagined. 3 For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire: and blessing the couetous, he blasphemeth God.