Hebrews 13:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Obey them that haue the ouersight of you, and submit your selues: for they watche for your soules, as they that must geue accomptes, that they may do it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πείθεσθε τοῖς ἡγουμένοις ὑμῶν, καὶ ὑπείκετε: αὐτοὶ γὰρ ἀγρυπνοῦσιν ὑπὲρ τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν, ὡς λόγον ἀποδώσοντες, ἵνα μετὰ χαρᾶς τοῦτο ποιῶσιν, καὶ μὴ στενάζοντες: ἀλυσιτελὲς γὰρ ὑμῖν τοῦτο.

Transliteration

Peithesthe the hēgoumenois of you, kai hypeikete: autoi gar agrypnousin over the psychōn of you, hōs logon apodōsontes, in order that with charas this they poiōsin, kai mē stenazontes: alysiteles gar to you this.

Grammar Details

• *peithesthe*: imperative, present, middle/passive, 2nd person, plural - obey/be persuaded by
• *hēgoumenois*: present, middle/passive, participle, dative, masculine, plural - leaders/rulers
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hypeikete*: imperative, present, active, 2nd person, plural - submit/yield to
• *autoi*: intensive pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural - they themselves
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *agrypnousin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person, plural - they keep watch/stay awake
• *psychōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - souls
• *hōs*: comparative particle - as
• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - account
• *apodōsontes*: future, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - about to give/render
• *charas*: genitive, feminine, singular - joy
• *poiōsin*: present, active, subjunctive, 3rd person, plural - they may do
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *stenazontes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - groaning/sighing
• *alysiteles*: nominative, neuter, singular, adjective - unprofitable

Word Meanings

• *peithesthe*: obey/be persuaded by/trust/comply with
• *hēgoumenois*: leaders/rulers/guides
• *hypeikete*: submit/yield to/give way to
• *agrypnousin*: keep watch/stay awake/are vigilant/alert
• *psychōn*: souls/lives
• *logon*: account/word/report
• *apodōsontes*: about to give/render/return/pay back
• *stenazontes*: groaning/sighing/lamenting
• *alysiteles*: unprofitable/disadvantageous/harmful

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heede therfore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, ouer the which the holy ghost hath made you ouerseers, to rule the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his owne blood.
• Heb 13:7 : 7 Remember them which haue the ouersyght of you, which haue spoken vnto you the worde of God: Whose ende of conuersation ye consideryng, folowe their fayth.
• 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 The elders that rule well are worthy of double honour, most speciallye they which labour in the worde & teachyng.
• 1 Pet 5:2-3 : 2 Feede you God his flocke, whiche is committed vnto you, takyng the ouersight of them not as compelled therto, but wyllyngly, not for the desyre of fylthy lucre, but of a good mynde: 3 Not as though ye were Lordes ouer God his heritage: but that ye be an ensample to the flocke.
• 1 Thess 5:12-13 : 12 And we beseche you brethren to know them whiche labour among you, and haue the ouersight of you in the Lorde, and admonishe you: 13 That ye haue them in hye reputation, in loue for their worke, and be at peace among your selues.
• Heb 13:24 : 24 Salute all them that haue the ouersight of you, and all the saintes. They of Italie salute you.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise ye younger, submit your selues vnto the elder: Submit your selues euery man one to another, decke your selues inwardly in lowlynes of mynde: For God resisteth the proude, and geueth grace to the humble.
• 1 Sam 15:19-20 : 19 And wherfore hast thou not hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde? but hast turned to the praye, and hast done that which is wicked in the syght of the Lorde? 20 And Saul sayde vnto Samuel: Yea, I haue hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde, and haue gone the way which the Lord sent me vnto, & haue brought Agag the kyng of Amalek, and haue destroyed the Amalekites.
• Exod 32:31 : 31 Moyses therefore went agayne vnto the Lorde, and sayde: Oh, this people haue sinned a great sinne, and haue made them gods of golde.
• Ezek 33:7-9 : 7 And thou O sonne at man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt here the worde at my mouth, and thou shalt warne them from me. 8 If I say vnto the wicked, thou wicked, thou shalt surely dye: & thou speakest not to admonish the wicked of his way: that wicked man shall dye in his owne sinne, but his blood wyl I require at thy hande. 9 Neuerthelesse, if thou warne the wicked of his way to tourne from it, and he yet wyll not be turned from his way: then shal he dye in his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.
• 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let a man so esteeme of vs, as the ministers of Christe, and disposers of the secretes of God. 2 Furthermore, it is required of the disposers that a man be founde faythfull.
• 1 Cor 16:16 : 16 That ye be obedient euen vnto suche, and to all that helpe with vs, & labour.
• 2 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christe, that euery man may receaue the workes of his bodie according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Seing then that we knowe the feare of the Lorde, we fare fayre with men: For we are knowen well enough vnto God. I trust also that we are knowen in your consciences.
• Eph 5:21 : 21 Submittyng your selues one to another in the feare of God.
• Phil 1:4 : 4 ( Alwayes in all my prayer for all you, makyng prayer with gladnesse,)
• Phil 2:12 : 12 Wherfore, my dearely beloued, as ye haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence only, but nowe much more in my absence, worke out your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng.
• Phil 2:16 : 16 Holdyng fast the worde of lyfe, to my reioycyng in the day of Christe that I haue not runne in vayne, neither haue laboured in vayne.
• Phil 2:29 : 29 Receaue hym therfore in the Lorde with all gladnes, & make much of such:
• Phil 3:18 : 18 For many walke, of whom I haue tolde you often, & nowe tel you wepyng, that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christe:
• Phil 4:1 : 1 Therfore my brethren beloued & longed for, my ioy and crowne, so continue in the Lorde ye beloued.
• 1 Thess 2:19-20 : 19 For what is our hope, or ioy, or crowne of reioycyng? Are not ye it in the presence of our Lorde Iesus Christe, at his commyng? 20 Yes, ye are our glorie and ioy.
• 1 Thess 3:9-9 : 9 For what thankes can we recompence to God agayne for you, for all the ioye wherwith we ioy for your sakes before our God? 10 Praying nyght and daye exceedyngly to see you personally, and repayre the wantynges of your fayth?
• Luke 16:2 : 2 And he called hym, and sayde vnto hym: Howe is it, that I heare this of thee? Geue accomptes of thy stewardeshyppe, for thou mayest be no longer stewarde.
• Acts 20:24-26 : 24 But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God. 25 And nowe beholde, I am sure that hencefoorth ye al, through who I haue gone preachyng the kyngdome of God, shall see my face no more. 26 Wherefore, I take you to recorde this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
• 1 Sam 8:19 : 19 Neuerthelesse, the people woulde not heare the voyce of Samuel, but did say, Nay, not so: But there shalbe a king ouer vs,
• Prov 5:13 : 13 Wherefore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, and hearkened not vnto them that enfourmed me?
• Isa 62:6 : 6 I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles O Hierusalem, which shall neither ceasse day nor night to preache the Lorde: and ye also that remember the Lorde, ye shall not kepe him close,
• Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye wyll not heare me that geue you secrete warnyng, I wyll mourne from my whole heart for your stubburnnesse: Piteously wyll I weepe, and the teares shall gushe out of mine eyes, for the Lordes flocke shalbe caried away captiue.
• Ezek 3:17-21 : 17 Thou sonne of man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt heare the worde at my mouth, and geue them warning from me. 18 When I shall say vnto the wicked, Thou shalt surely dye, and thou geuest not him warning, nor speakest to admonishe the wicked of his euill way, and so to liue: then shal the same vngodly man dye in his owne vnrighteousnesse, but his blood wyl I require of thyne hand. 19 Neuerthelesse, if thou geue warning vnto the wicked, and he yet turne not from his vngodlynesse and from his wicked way: he shall dye in his owne wickednesse, but thou hast deliuered thy soule. 20 Nowe if a righteous man go from his righteousnesse and do the thing that is euyll I wyll lay a stumbling blocke before him: and he shall dye, because thou hast not geuen him warning, dye shall he in his owne sinne, so that his righteousnesse whiche he hath done, shall not be thought vpon: but his blood will I require at thyne hande. 21 Neuerthelesse, if thou exhortest that righteous that he sinne not, and so the righteous do not sinne: then shall he liue, because he hath receaued thy warning, and thou hast deliuered thy soule.
• Ezek 33:2 : 2 Thou sonne of man, speake to the children of thy people, and tell them: When I sende a sworde vpon a lande, if the people of the lande take a man of their coastes, and set him to be their watchman:
• Jas 4:7 : 7 Submit your selues therfore to God: but resist the deuyll, and he wyll flee from you.
• Gen 16:9 : 9 And the angell of the Lorde sayde vnto her: Returne to thy mistresse agayne, and submit thy selfe vnder her handes.
• 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 Yf any man obey not our doctrine, signifie hym by an epistle, and haue no companie with hym, that he maye be ashamed.
• Rom 14:12 : 12 So shal euery one of vs geue accompt of hym selfe to God.