Romans 3:29

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Is he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἢ Ἰουδαίων ὁ Θεὸς μόνον; οὐχὶ δὲ καὶ Ἐθνῶν; Ναὶ, καὶ Ἐθνῶν:

Transliteration

Ē Ioudaiōn ho Theos monon? ouchi de kai Ethnōn? Nai, kai Ethnōn:

Grammar Details

• *Ē*: disjunctive particle - or
• *Ioudaiōn*: noun, genitive, masculine, plural - of Jews
• *ho Theos*: article + noun, nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *monon*: adverb - only
• *ouchi*: negative particle - not
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *kai*: conjunction - also
• *Ethnōn*: noun, genitive, neuter, plural - of Gentiles/nations
• *Nai*: particle of affirmation - yes

Word Meanings

• *Ioudaiōn*: of Jews/of Jewish people/of Judeans
• *monon*: only/merely/alone
• *Ethnōn*: of Gentiles/of nations/of non-Jews

Referenced Verses

• Zech 2:11 : 11 At the same time there shal many heathen cleaue to the lord, & shalbe my people: Thus wyll I dwell in the middest of thee, and thou shalt knowe that the lorde of hoastes hath sent me vnto thee.
• Zech 8:20-23 : 20 Thus saith the lord of hoastes: There shal yet come people, and the inhabiters of many cities: 21 And they that dwell in one citie shall go to another saying, Up, let vs go and pray before the Lorde, let vs seeke the Lorde of hoastes: I wyll go with you. 22 Yea much people and mightie nations shal come to seeke the lorde of hoastes at Hierusalem, & to pray before the Lorde. 23 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: In that time shall ten men (out of al maner of language of the Gentiles) take one Iewe by the hemme of his garment, and say, We wyll go with you: for we haue heard that God is among you.
• Mal 1:11 : 11 From the rysing of the sunne vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the gentiles, and in euery place incense shalbe offred to my name, & a pure offering: for my name is great among the very heathen, saith the Lord of hoastes.
• Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the lyuyng.
• Matt 28:19 : 19 Go ye therfore, & teache all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holye ghost:
• Mark 16:15-16 : 15 And he sayde vnto them: Go ye into all the worlde, and preache the Gospell to all creatures. 16 He that beleueth, and is baptized, shalbe saued: But he that beleueth not, shalbe dampned.
• Luke 24:46-47 : 46 And sayde vnto them: Thus is it written, and thus it behoued Christe to suffer, and to rise agayne from death the thirde day: 47 And that repentaunce and remission of sinnes shoulde be preached in his name among all nations, and must begyn at Hierusalem.
• Acts 9:15 : 15 The Lord sayde vnto hym: Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my name before the gentiles, & kynges, and the chyldren of Israel.
• Acts 22:21 : 21 And he sayde vnto me: depart, for I wyll sende thee farre hence vnto the gentiles.
• Acts 26:17 : 17 Delyueryng thee from the people, and from the gentiles, vnto whom nowe I sende thee,
• 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 9:24-26 : 24 Whom also he called, not of ye Iewes only, but also of the Gentiles. 25 As he sayth also in Osee: I wyll call them my people, which were not my people: and her beloued, which was not beloued. 26 And it shall come to passe, that in the place where it was sayde vnto them: Ye are not my people, there shall they be called ye chyldren of the lyuyng God.
• Rom 10:12 : 12 There is no difference betwene the Iewe & the Greke: for the same Lorde ouer al, is riche vnto al yt call vpon him.
• Rom 11:12-13 : 12 Nowe, yf the fall of them be ye ryches of the worlde, and the minishyng of the, the ryches of the gentiles: Howe much more their fulnesse? 13 For I speake to you gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of the gentiles, I magnifie myne office.
• Rom 15:9-9 : 9 And that the gentiles myght prayse God for his mercie, as it is written: For this cause I wyll praise thee among the gentiles, and syng vnto thy name. 10 And againe he saith: Reioyce ye gentiles with his people. 11 And againe: praise the Lord al ye gentiles, & laude him al ye people together. 12 And againe Esaias saith: There shalbe the roote of Iesse, and he that shall rise to raigne ouer the gentiles, in hym shall the gentiles trust. 13 The God of hope, fyll you with al ioy and peace in beleuyng, that ye may be riche in hope, through the power of the holy ghost.
• Rom 15:16 : 16 That I should be the minister of Iesus Christe, to the gentiles, and shoulde minister the Gospell of God, that the offeryng of the gentiles might be acceptable, and sanctified by the holy ghost.
• Gal 3:14 : 14 That the blessyng of Abraham might come on the gentiles through Iesus Christe, that we myght receaue the promise of the spirite through fayth.
• Gal 3:25-29 : 25 But after that fayth is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaister. 26 For ye are all the chyldren of God by fayth in Christe Iesu. 27 For all ye that are baptized, haue put on Christe. 28 There is no Iewe, neither Greke, there is neither bonde nor free, there is neither male, nor female: For ye are all one in Christe Iesu. 29 If ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heyres accordyng to the promise.
• 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:
• Col 3:11 : 11 Where is neither Greke nor Iewe, circumcision nor vncircumcision, Barbarian, Sythian, bonde, free: but Christe is all, and in all.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 Moreouer I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, & thy seede after thee, in their generations, by an euerlasting couenaut, yt I may be God vnto thee, and to thy seede after thee. 8 And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger euen al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
• Gen 17:18 : 18 And Abraham sayde vnto God: O that Ismael myght lyue in thy syght.
• Ps 22:7 : 7 All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they do make a mowe, and nod their head at me.
• Ps 67:2 : 2 That thy way may be knowen vpon the earth: thy saluation among all nations.
• Ps 72:17 : 17 His name shall endure for euer, his name shalbe spread abrode to the world so long as the sunne shall shyne: all nations shalbe blessed in hym, and shall call hym blessed.
• Isa 19:23-25 : 23 In that day shall there be a common way out of Egypt into Assyria, and Assyria shall come into Egypt, & Egypt into Assyria: so that the Egyptians and the Assyrians shall serue the Lorde together. 24 In that day shal the nation of Israel be the thirde with Egypt and Assyria: and they shalbe blessed in the middest of the lande, 25 Which lande the Lorde of hoastes hath blessed, saying: blessed is my people of Egypt, Assur also is the worke of my handes, and Israel is mine inheritaunce.
• Isa 54:5 : 5 For he that made thee shalbe thy Lorde and husbande (whose name is the Lord of hoastes) and thy redeemer shalbe euen the holy one of Israel, the Lorde of the whole worlde.
• Jer 16:19 : 19 O Lorde my strength, my power and refuge in tyme of trouble: the gentiles shall come vnto thee from the endes of the worlde, and say, Ueryly our fathers haue cleaued vnto lyes, their idols are but vayne and vnprofitable.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shalbe the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lorde: I wyll plant my lawe in the inwarde partes of them, and write it in their heartes, and wyll be their God, and they shalbe my people.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the chyldren of Israel shalbe as the sand of the sea, which can neither be measured nor tolde: and in the place where it was sayde vnto them, Ye are not my people: it shall be saide vnto them, Ye are the chyldren of the liuing God.