Romans 1:9

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For God is my witnesse ( whom I serue in my sprete in the Gospell of his sonne) that without ceassynge I make mencion of you besekinge allwayes in my prayers,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μάρτυς γάρ μού ἐστιν ὁ Θεός, ᾧ λατρεύω ἐν τῷ πνεύματί μου ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ Υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἀδιαλείπτως μνείαν ὑμῶν ποιοῦμαι

Transliteration

Martys gar mou estin the Theos, hō latreuō en the pneumati mou en the euangeliō the Huiou autou, hōs adialeiptōs mneian hymōn poioumai

Grammar Details

• *Martys*: nominative, masculine, singular - witness
• *gar*: conjunction - for
• *mou*: genitive, singular, personal pronoun - of me/my
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *hō*: dative, masculine, singular, relative pronoun - whom
• *latreuō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I serve/worship
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - spirit
• *euangeliō*: dative, neuter, singular - gospel
• *Huiou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Son
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular, possessive pronoun - his
• *hōs*: adverb - how/that
• *adialeiptōs*: adverb - unceasingly
• *mneian*: accusative, feminine, singular - mention/remembrance
• *hymōn*: genitive, plural, personal pronoun - of you/your
• *poioumai*: present middle indicative, 1st person singular - I make

Word Meanings

• *Martys*: witness/testifier
• *latreuō*: I serve/worship/minister to
• *pneumati*: spirit/inner being/soul
• *euangeliō*: gospel/good news
• *adialeiptōs*: unceasingly/constantly/without interruption
• *mneian*: mention/remembrance/memory

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thanke God, whome I serue fro my fore elders in a pure conscience, that without ceassynge I make mencion of the in my prayers night and daye:
• Rom 9:1 : 1 I saye the trueth in Christ, and lye not (wherof my conscience beareth me witnesse in the holy goost)
• 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 praye contynually,
• 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 Bvt I call God to recorde vnto my soule, that to fauoure you withall I came not agayne vnto Corinthum.
• Eph 6:18 : 18 And praye allwayes with all maner of prayer and supplicacion in the sprete, and watch there vnto with all instaunce and supplicacion for all sayntes
• Phil 1:4 : 4 (which I allwayes do in all my prayers for you all, and praye with gladnesse)
• Phil 1:8-9 : 8 For God is my recorde, how I loge after you all euen fro the very hert rote in Iesus Christ. 9 And for the same I praye, yt yor loue maye increace more & more in all maner of knowlege and in all experience, 10 yt ye maye proue what is best, that ye maye be pure, & soch as hurte no mans conscience, vnto the daye of Christ: 11 fylled with the frutes of righteousnes, which come by Iesus Christ vnto the glorye and prayse of God.
• Phil 2:22 : 22 But ye knowe the profe of him: for as a childe vnto the father, so hath he mynistred vnto me in the Gospell.
• Phil 3:3 : 3 for we are the circumcision, euen we that serue God in the sprete, and reioyce in Christ Iesu, and haue no confidence in the flesh,
• Col 1:9-9 : 9 For this cause we also, sence the daye yt we herde of it, ceasse not to praye for you, & desyre that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowlege of his will, in all wyssdome and spirituall vnderstondinge, 10 that ye mighte walke worthy off the LORDE, to please him in all thinges, and to be frutefull in all good workes, and growe in the knowlege of God: 11 & to be strengthed wt all power acordinge to the mighte of his glory, to all pacience and longsufferynge with ioyfulnes, 12 and geue thankes vnto the father, which hath made vs mete for the enheritaunce of sayntes in lighte. 13 Which hath delyuered vs fro the power of darknesse, & translated vs in to the kyngdome of his deare sonne
• Col 1:28-29 : 28 who we preach, and warne all men, and teach all men in all wyssdome, to make euery man parfecte in Christ Iesu: 29 Wherin I also laboure, and stryue acordinge to the workynge of him which worketh mightely in me.
• 1 Thess 1:2 : 2 We geue thankes vnto God allwaye for you all, makynge mesion of you in or prayers
• 1 Thess 2:5-9 : 5 For we haue not gone aboute with flateringe wordes (as ye knowe) ner wayted for oure owne profit ( God is recorde) 6 nether soughte we prayse of men, nether of you ner of eny other, whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ, 7 but we were tender amonge you. Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children, 8 euen so had we hartely affeccion towarde you, and wolde with good wyl haue dealte vnto you, not onely the Gospell of God, but oure lyues also, because ye were deare vnto vs. 9 Ye remembre brethren oure laboure and trauayle. For daye and nighte wroughte we (because we wolde not be chargeable vnto eny of you) and preached the Gospell of God amonge you. 10 Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holyly and iustly and vnblameable we behaued oure selues amoge you that beleue:
• 1 Thess 3:10 : 10 We praye exceadingly daye and nighte, that we mighte se you presently, and fulfill that which is lackynge in yor faith.
• 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 But God forbyd that I shulde synne so vnto the LORDE, to ceasse from prayenge for you, and from teachinge you the good & righteous waye.
• Job 16:19 : 19 For lo, my witnesse is in heauen, and he that knoweth me, is aboue in the heyth.
• Mark 1:1 : 1 This is the begynnynge of the gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God,
• Luke 18:1 : 1 He tolde them a symilitude, signifienge, yt men ought allwayes to praye, & not to leaue of,
• John 4:23-24 : 23 But the tyme commeth, and is now allready, that the true worshippers shal worshippe the father in sprete and in the trueth: For the father wil haue soch so to worshippe him. 24 God is a sprete, and they that worshippe him, must worshippe in sprete and in the trueth.
• Acts 3:26 : 26 First vnto you hath God raysed vp his childe Iesus, & sent hi vnto you, to blesse you yt euery one shulde turne fro his wickednesse.
• Acts 12:5 : 5 And Peter was kepte in the preson But prayer was made without ceassinge of the congregacion, vnto God for him.
• Acts 19:21 : 21 Whan this was done, Paul purposed in sprete to take his iourney thorow Macedonia and Achaia, and to go to Ierusale, and sayde: After that I haue bene there, I must se Rome also.
• Acts 24:14 : 14 But this I confesse vnto the, that after this waye which they call heresye, so worshippe I the God of my fathers, that I beleue all that is wrytten in the lawe and in the prophetes,
• Acts 27:23 : 23 For this night stode by me the angell off God (whose I am, & who I serue)
• 2 Cor 11:10-11 : 10 As surely as the trueth of Christ is in me, this reioysinge shal not be taken fro me in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth.
• 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 God ye father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which is blessed for euer, knoweth that I lye not.
• Gal 1:20 : 20 The thinges that I wryte vnto you, beholde, God knoweth, I lye not.
• Eph 1:16-19 : 16 ceasse not to geue thankes for you, and make mencion of you in my prayers, 17 that ye God of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, the father of glory maye geue vnto you the sprete of wyssdome, and open vnto you the knowlege of himselfe, 18 and lighten the eyes of youre vnderstondinge, that ye maye knowe what is the hope of youre callynge, and what the riches of his glorious enheritaunce is vpon the sayntes, 19 & what is the exceadinge greatnesse of his power towarde vs, which beleue acordinge to ye workynge of his mightie power,
• Eph 3:14-21 : 14 For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, 15 which is the true father, ouer all that is called father in heauen and in earth, 16 that he graunte you (acordinge to ye riches of his glory) to be strengthed with power by his sprete in ye inwarde ma, 17 that Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by faith, that ye beynge roted and grounded in loue, 18 maye be able to coprehende with all sayntes, what is the bredth, and the length, and the deepth, and the heyth: 19 and to knowe the loue of Christ, which loue yet passeth all knowlege: that ye maye be fylled with all maner of fulnesse of God. 20 Vnto him that is able to do exceadinge abundauntly, aboue all that we axe or vnderstonde (acordinge to ye power that worketh in vs) 21 be prayse in the congregacion, which is in Christ Iesu, at all tymes for euer and euer, Amen.
• 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 wherevnto I am ordeyned a preacher & an Apostle (I tell ye trueth in Christ and lye not) a teacher of the Heythe in faith and in the trueth.
• 1 Cor 14:14-15 : 14 Yf I praye with tunges, my sprete prayeth, but my vnderstodinge bryngeth no man frute. 15 How shal it be then? Namely thus: I wil praye with ye sprete, and wil praye with the vnderstodinge also: I wil synge psalmes in the sprete, and wil synge spalmes with ye vnderstondinge also.
• Phlm 1:4 : 4 I thanke my God, makynge mencion allwayes of the in my prayers
• 1 John 5:9-9 : 9 Yf we receaue the witnesse of men, the witnesse of God is greater: for this is the wytnesse of God, which he testifyed of his sonne. 10 He that beleueth on ye sonne of God, hath the wytnes in him selfe. He that beleueth not God, hath made him a lyar. 11 And this is that recorde, euen yt God hath geue vs euerlastinge life. And this life is in his sonne. 12 He that hath the sonne of God, hath life: He that hath not the sonne of God, hath not life.