Hebrews 3:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Therfore holy brethren, partakers of the celestiall callyng, consider the apostle and hye priest of our profession Christe Iesus,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ὅθεν, ἀδελφοὶ ἅγιοι, κλήσεως ἐπουρανίου μέτοχοι, κατανοήσατε τὸν Ἀπόστολον καὶ Ἀρχιερέα τῆς ὁμολογίας ἡμῶν, Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν·

Transliteration

Hothen, adelphoi hagioi, klēseōs epouraniou metochoi, katanoēsate the Apostolon and Archierea of the homologias of us, Christon Iēsoun

Grammar Details

• *Hothen*: adverb - from which/therefore/wherefore
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *hagioi*: vocative, masculine, plural - holy ones/saints
• *klēseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of calling/invitation
• *epouraniou*: genitive, feminine, singular - heavenly/celestial
• *metochoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - partakers/participants
• *katanoēsate*: aorist imperative, 2nd person plural - consider/contemplate/fix your attention on
• *Apostolon*: accusative, masculine, singular - apostle/one who is sent
• *Archierea*: accusative, masculine, singular - high priest
• *homologias*: genitive, feminine, singular - confession/profession/acknowledgment
• *Christon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Christ/Anointed One
• *Iēsoun*: accusative, masculine, singular - Jesus

Word Meanings

• *Hothen*: wherefore/therefore/for this reason
• *adelphoi*: brothers/brethren/spiritual siblings
• *hagioi*: holy ones/saints/consecrated ones
• *klēseōs*: calling/invitation/summons
• *epouraniou*: heavenly/celestial/from heaven
• *metochoi*: partakers/participants/sharers
• *katanoēsate*: consider attentively/fix your thoughts on/observe fully
• *homologias*: confession/profession/acknowledgment of faith

Referenced Verses

• Phil 3:14 : 14 And I prease towarde the marke, for the price of the hye callyng of God in Christe Iesus.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who hath saued vs, & called vs with an holy callyng, not accordyng to our workes: but accordyng to his owne purpose and grace, which was geuen vs in Christe Iesus, before the world began:
• Heb 2:17 : 17 Wherfore, in all thinges it became him to be made lyke vnto his brethren, that he myght be mercyfull, and a faythfull hye priest in thynges concernyng God, for to purge the peoples sinnes.
• Heb 4:14-15 : 14 Seyng then that we haue a great hye priest, which is entred into heauens, Iesus the sonne of God, let vs holde faste the confession. 15 For we haue not an hye priest whiche can not be touched with the feelyng of our infirmities: but was in all poyntes tempted lyke as we are, and yet without sinne.
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such an hye priest became vs, whiche is holy, harmelesse, vndefyled, seperate from sinners, and made hygher then heauens:
• Heb 10:21 : 21 And seyng we haue an hye priest ouer the house of God:
• John 20:21 : 21 Then sayde Iesus to them agayne, peace be vnto you: As my father sent me, euen so sende I you also.
• Rom 15:8 : 8 And I say, that Iesus Christe was a minister of the circumcisio for the trueth of God, to confirme the promise made vnto the fathers:
• Rom 8:28-30 : 28 For we knowe yt all thinges worke for the best, vnto them that loue God, to them which also are called of purpose. 29 For those which he knewe before, he also dyd predestinate, that they shoulde be lyke fashioned vnto the shape of his sonne, that he myght be ye first begotten among many brethren. 30 Moreouer, whom he dyd predestinate, the also he called. And whom he called, them also he iustified: And whom he iustified, them he also glorified.
• 1 Cor 9:23 : 23 And this I do for the Gospels sake, that I might haue my part therof.
• John 20:27 : 27 After that said he to Thomas: Bring thy fynger hyther, and see my handes, & reache hyther thy hande, and thrust it into my syde, and be not faythlesse, but beleuyng.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Nowe thus sayth the Lord of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.
• Ps 110:4 : 4 God sware and he wyll not repent: thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec.
• Isa 1:3 : 3 The oxe hath knowen his owner, and the asse his maisters cribbe: but Israel hath not knowen, my people hath geuen no heede.
• 2 Tim 2:7 : 7 Consider What I say: and the Lorde geue thee vnderstandyng in all thinges.
• Eph 4:1 : 1 I therfore, a prisoner in the Lorde, exhorte you, that ye walke worthy of the vocatio wherewith ye are called,
• Eph 4:4 : 4 One body and one spirite, euen as ye are called in one hope of your calling.
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 That ye woulde walke worthie of God, who hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glorie.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royall priesthood, an holy nation, a peculier people: that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght.
• 1 Pet 3:5 : 5 For after this maner in the olde tyme dyd the holy women, whiche trusted in God, tyre them selues, and were obedient vnto theyr husbandes.
• Heb 6:20 : 20 Whyther the forerunner is for vs entred euen Iesus, after the order of Melchisedech made a priest for euer.
• Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christe beyng come an hye priest of good thynges that shoulde be, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with handes, that is to say, not of this buyldyng,
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But the God of all grace whiche hath called vs vnto his eternall glory by Christe Iesus, shal his owne selfe, after that ye haue suffred a litle affliction, make you perfite, setle, strength, and stablyshe you.
• 1 John 1:3 : 3 That which we haue seene and heard declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue felowship with vs, and that our felowship may be with the father, and his sonne Iesus Christe.
• Rev 17:14 : 14 These shall fyght with the lambe, and the lambe shall ouercome them: For he is Lorde of Lordes, and Kyng of Kynges, and they that are on his syde, are called, and chosen, and faythfull.
• Heb 2:11 : 11 For both he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause, he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christe, yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the begynnyng of the substaunce,
• 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 Wherfore also we praye alwayes for you, that our God woulde make you worthy of the callyng, & fulfyll all good pleasure of goodnesse in the worke of fayth in power:
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he seeth, and turneth away from all his iniquitie that he hath committed, he shall surely liue, and not dye.
• 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hand on eternall lyfe, wherevnto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
• Isa 5:12 : 12 In their feastes are harpes and lutes, tabrettes and pipes, and wine: but they regarde not the worke of the Lord, and consider not the operatio of his handes.
• Isa 41:20 : 20 All this do I, that they altogether may see and marke, perceaue with their heartes and consider that the hande of the Lorde maketh these thinges, and that the holy one of Israel bringeth them to passe.
• Ezek 12:3 : 3 Therfore (O thou sonne of man) prepare thee instrumentes to flit with, & remoue on the day time that they may see, yea euen in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place, yf peraduenture they wyll consider that they be a rebellious house.
• Hag 2:15 : 15 And nowe consider I pray you in your mindes from this day, and vpward, before there was layed one stone vpon an other in the house of the Lorde,
• Rom 1:6-7 : 6 Among whom, ye are also the called of Iesus Christe: 7 To all that be in Rome, beloued of God, saintes by callyng, grace to you, and peace, from God our father, and the Lorde Iesus Christe.
• 1 Cor 10:17 : 17 For we that are many, are one bread and one body, in as much as we all are partakers of one bread.
• 2 Cor 1:7 : 7 And our hope is stedfast, insomuch as we knowe howe that as ye are partakers of ye afflictions, so ye be partakers also of the consolation.
• Eph 3:6 : 6 That the gentiles shoulde be inheritours also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christe, by the Gospell:
• Rom 9:24 : 24 Whom also he called, not of ye Iewes only, but also of the Gentiles.
• Rom 11:17 : 17 And yf some of the brauches be broken of, and thou beyng a wylde Oliue tree, wast graft in among them, & made partaker of the roote and fatnesse of the Oliue tree:
• Rom 15:27 : 27 It hath pleased them veryly, & their detters are they. For yf the gentiles be made partakers of their spirituall thynges, their duetie is to minister vnto the in carnall thynges.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 Unto the Church of God whiche is at Corinthus: To the that are sanctified in Christe Iesus, saintes by callyng, with all that call on the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe in euery place, both of theirs and ours:
• 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 Wherevnto he called you by our Gospell, to the obteyning of the glorie of our Lorde Iesus Christe.
• 1 Tim 6:2 : 2 And they whiche haue beleuyng maisters, despise them not because they are brethren: but rather do seruice, forasmuch as they are beleuyng and beloued and partakers of the benefite. These thynges teache and exhort.
• 1 Thess 5:27 : 27 I charge you in the Lorde, that this epistle be read vnto al the holy brethren.
• Col 1:12 : 12 Geuyng thankes vnto ye father, which hath made vs meete to be partakers of the inheritaunce of the saintes in lyght.
• Col 1:22 : 22 In the body of his fleshe, through death, to present you holye, and vnblameable, & without fault in his syght:
• Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therfore (as the elect of God, holy and beloued) bowels of mercie, kyndenesse, humblenesse of mynde, mekenesse, long sufferyng,
• Rev 18:20 : 20 Reioyce ouer her thou heauen, and ye holy apostles and prophetes: for God hath geuen your iudgement on her.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Iude the seruaunt of Iesus Christe, the brother of Iames: To them which are called and sanctified in God the father, and preserued in Iesus Christe:
• 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders which are among you, I exhort, whiche am also an elder, & a wytnesse of the afflictions of Christe, and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe opened:
• Heb 8:1-3 : 1 But of the thinges whiche we haue spoken, this is ye summe: We haue such an hye priest that sitteth on ye ryght hand of ye throne of the maiestie in the heaues, 2 A minister of holy thynges, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pight, and not man. 3 For euery hye priest is ordeyned to offer gyftes and sacrifices: Wherefore it is of necessitie, that this man haue somewhat also to offer.
• Heb 5:1-9 : 1 For euery hye priest taken from among men, is ordeined for men, in things parteynyng to God, to offer gyftes & sacrifices for sinne: 2 Which can sufficiently haue compassion on the ignoraunt, & on them that erre out of the waye, forasmuche as he hym selfe also is compassed with infirmitie. 3 And for ye same infirmitie he is bounde to offer for sinnes, aswell for hym selfe, as for the people. 4 And no man taketh the honour vnto hym selfe, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 Euen so, Christ also glorified not hym selfe to be made ye hye priest: but he that sayde vnto hym, thou art my sonne, to day haue I begotten thee gaue it hym. 6 As he saith also in another place: thou art a priest for euer, after the order of Melchisedech. 7 Which in the dayes of his fleshe, when he had offered vp prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares, vnto hym that was able to saue hym from death, and was hearde in that which he feared: 8 Though he were the sonne, yet learned he obediece, by these thinges which he suffred: 9 And being perfect, was made the aucthour of eternall saluation vnto al them that obey hym: 10 And is called of God an hye priest after the order of Melchisedech.
• 2 Pet 1:3-9 : 3 Accordyng as his godly power hath geuen vnto vs all thynges that parteine vnto lyfe and godlynesse, through the knowledge of hym that hath called vs vnto glorie and vertue: 4 By the which are geuen vnto vs excellent and most great promises, that by the meanes thereof, ye might be partakers of the godly nature, yf ye flee the corruption of worldly lust. 5 And herevnto geue all diligence: in your fayth minister vertue, in vertue knowledge, 6 In knowledge temperaunce, in temperaunce pacience, in pacience godlynesse, 7 In godlynesse brotherly kyndnesse, in brotherly kyndnesse loue. 8 For yf these thynges be among you, and be plenteous, they wyll make you that ye neither shalbe idle nor vnfruitefull in the knowledge of our Lorde Iesus Christe. 9 But he that lacketh these thynges, is blynde, and can not see farre of, & hath forgotten that he was purged from his olde sinnes. 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.