Romans 8:28

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But sure we are, that all thinges serue for the best vnto them that loue of God, which are called of purpose.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν τὸν Θεὸν πάντα συνεργεῖ εἰς ἀγαθόν, τοῖς κατὰ πρόθεσιν κλητοῖς οὖσιν.

Transliteration

Oidamen de hoti tois agapōsin ton Theon panta synergei eis agathon, to those kata prothesin klētois ousin.

Grammar Details

• *Oidamen*: perfect active indicative 1st person plural - we know
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *tois agapōsin*: dative masculine plural present active participle - to those loving
• *ton Theon*: accusative masculine singular - God
• *panta*: nominative/accusative neuter plural - all things
• *synergei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - works together
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - for/unto
• *agathon*: accusative neuter singular - good
• *tois*: dative masculine plural - to those
• *kata*: preposition with accusative - according to
• *prothesin*: accusative feminine singular - purpose/plan
• *klētois*: dative masculine plural - called ones
• *ousin*: present active participle dative masculine plural - being

Word Meanings

• *Oidamen*: we know/understand [perfect - completed action with continuing results]
• *agapōsin*: loving/having affection for
• *panta*: all things/everything
• *synergei*: works together/cooperates/collaborates
• *agathon*: good/beneficial/valuable
• *prothesin*: purpose/plan/intention
• *klētois*: called ones/invited ones
• *ousin*: being/existing

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But ye God of all grace, which hath called you to his euerlastinge glory in Christ Iesu, shal his owne selfe make you perfecte, which suffre a litle season: eue he shal settle, strength, and stablish you.
• Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who will separate vs from the loue of God? Trouble? or anguysh? or persecucio? or honger? or nakednesse? or parell? or swerde? 36 As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne. 37 Neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome farre, for his sake that loued vs. 38 For sure I am, that nether death ner life, nether angell, ner rule, nether power, nether thinges present, nether thinges to come, 39 nether heyth, ner loweth, nether eny other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesu oure LORDE.
• Jas 1:12 : 12 Happy is the man that endureth in teptacion, for when he is tryed, he shal receaue the crowne of life, which the LORDE hath promised to them that loue him.
• Gen 50:20 : 20 Ye thought euell ouer me, but God hath turned it vnto good, to do as it is come to passe this daye, for the sauynge of moch people.
• Rom 5:3-5 : 3 Not onely yt, but we reioyse also i troubles, for so moch as we knowe, yt trouble bryngeth paciece, 4 paciece bryngeth experiece, experiece bryngeth hope: 5 As for hope, is letteth vs not come to cofusion, because the loue of God is shed abrode in oure hertes, by the holy goost which is geuen vnto vs.
• Jas 1:3-4 : 3 for as moche as ye knowe, how yt the tryinge of youre faith bringeth pacience: 4 and let pacience haue her parfect worke, yt ye maye be parfecte aud sounde, lakinge nothinge.
• 1 Cor 2:9 : 9 but as it is wrytten: The eye hath not sene, and the eare hath not herde, nether hath it entred in to the hert of man that God hath prepared for them that loue him.
• Rom 8:30 : 30 As for those whom he hath ordeyned before, them hath he called also: and whom he hath called, the hath he also made righteous: and whom he hath made righteous, them hath he glorified also.
• 1 Pet 1:7-8 : 7 that youre faith once tryed (beynge moch more precious then the corruptible golde that is tryed thorow the fyre) might be founde vnto laude, glory and honoure at the appearynge of Iesus Christ: 8 whom ye haue not sene, and yet loue him: in whom now ye beleue, though ye se him not. Euen so shal ye reioyce also with vnoutspeakable and glorious ioye,
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 which hath saued vs, and called vs with an holy callynge: not acordinge to oure dedes, but acordinge to his owne purpose and grace, which was geuen vs in Christ Iesu before the tyme of the worlde,
• 1 Cor 1:9 : 9 For God is faithfull, by who ye are called vnto the fellishippe of his sonne Iesus Christ oure LORDE.
• Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I loue, I rebuke & chasten. Be feruent therfore and repent.
• Heb 12:6-9 : 6 for who the LORDE loueth, him he chasteneth, yee and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth. 7 Yf ye endure chastenynge, God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes. What sonne is that, whom the father chasteneth not? 8 Yf ye be not vnder correccion (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes. 9 Morouer seyenge we haue had fathers off oure flesh which corrected vs, & we gaue them reuerence, shulde we not then moch rather be in subieccion vnto ye father of spirituall giftes, yt we mighte lyue? 10 And they verely for a few dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he lerneth vs vnto yt which is profitable, that we mighte receaue of his holynes. 11 No maner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyous, but greuous: neuertheles afterwarde it bringeth the quyete frute of righteousnes, vnto them which are exercysed therby. 12 Life vp therfore the handes which were let downe, and the weake knees,
• Gal 1:15 : 15 But whan it pleased God which separated me fro my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace,
• Eph 1:9-9 : 9 and hath opened vnto vs the mystery of his wil acordinge to his pleasure, which he had purposed in himselfe, 10 yt it shulde be preached wha the tyme was full come, that all thinges shulde be gathered together by Christ, both the thinges which are in heauen, and also the thinges that are vpon earth, 11 euen by him, by whom also we are come to the inheritaunce we that were therto predestinate before, acordinge to ye purpose of him, which worketh all thinges after ye councell of his owne wyll,
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And the same thirde parte wil I brynge thorow the fyre, and will clense them, as the syluer is clensed: Yee and trye them, like as golde is tryed. Then shall they call vpon my name, and I wil heare them: I wil saye: it is my people. And they shal saye: LORDE, my God.
• Neh 1:5 : 5 & sayde: O LORDE God of heauen, thou greate & terrible God, thou yt kepest couenaunt & mercy for them yt loue the & obserue thy comaundementes:
• Ps 46:1-2 : 1 In oure troubles and aduersite, we haue founde, that God is oure refuge, oure strength and helpe. 2 Therfore wil we not feare, though the earth fell, and though the hilles were caried in to the myddest of the see.
• Deut 8:2-3 : 2 and thynke vpon all ye waie thorow the which the LORDE thy God hath led the this fortye yeares in the wyldernesse, that he mighte chasten the, and proue the, to wete whath were in thyne herte, whether thou woldest kepe his comaundemetes or no. 3 He chastened the, and let the hunger, and fed the with Manna (which thou and thy fathers knewe not) to make the knowe, that man lyueth not by bred onely, but by all that proceadeth out of the mouth of the LORDE.
• 2 Cor 4:15-17 : 15 For all thinges do I for youre sakes, that the pleteous grace by the thakesgeuynge of many, maye redounde to the prayse of God. 16 Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye. 17 For oure trouble, which is but temporall and lighte, worketh an exceadinge and an eternall weighte of glorye
• Eph 3:11 : 11 acordinge to ye eternall purpose, which he hath shewed in Christ Iesu oure LORDE
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 Let vs loue him, for he loued vs first.
• Deut 8:16 : 16 and fed the in the wyldernesse with Manna wherof yi fathers knewe not, that he might chasten the, and proue the) to do the good afterwarde)
• Deut 6:5 : 5 And thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God wt all thy hart, with all yi soule, & with all thy mighte.
• Jas 2:5 : 5 Harken my deare beloued brethre. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, which are ryche in faith, and heyres of the kyngdom which he promysed to the that loue him?
• 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God hath not appoynted vs vnto wrath, but to optayne saluacion by ye meanes of oure LORDE Iesu Christ,
• 1 John 5:2-3 : 2 By this we knowe that we loue Gods children, whan we loue God, and kepe his commaundementes. 3 For this is the loue of God, that we kepe his commaundementes, and his commaundemetes are not greuous.
• Mark 12:30 : 30 and thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God with all thy hert, with all thy soule, with all thy mynde, and with all thy strength. This is the chefest commaundement,
• Ps 69:36 : 36 For God wil saue Sion, & buylde the cities of Iuda, that men maye dwell there, & haue the in possession. The sede of his seruauntes shal iheret it, & they that loue his name, shal dwell therin.
• Jer 24:5-7 : 5 Thus saieth ye LORDE the God of Israel: like as thou knowest the good fyges, so shal I knowe the men led awaye, whom I haue sent out of this place in to the londe of the Caldees, for their profite: 6 and I will set myne eyes vpon them for the best, for I will bringe them agayne in to this londe: I will buylde them vp, and not breake them downe: I will plante them, and not rote them out. 7 And I will geue them an herte, to knowe, how that I am the LORDE. They shalbe my people, and I wilbe their God, for they shal returne vnto me with their whole herte.
• Exod 20:6 : 6 And do mercye vpo many thousandes, that loue me, and kepe my commaundementes.
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But ye sure grounde of God stondeth fast, and hath this seale: The LORDE knoweth them that are his, and let euery ma that calleth vpon the name of Christ, departe from iniquyte.
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we are bounde to geue thankes allwaye vnto God for you, brethren be loued of the LORDE, because that God hath from the begynnynge chosen you to saluacion in the sanctifienge of the sprete and in beleuynge of the trueth, 14 whervnto he hath called you by oure Gospell, to optayne the glory of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.
• Phil 1:19-23 : 19 For I knowe that the same shal chaunce to my saluacion, thorow youre prayer and mynistrynge of the sprete of Iesu Christ, 20 as I loke for and hope, that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all cofidence (as allwayes in tymes past, eue so now) Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorow life or thorow death. 21 For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage. 22 But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what 23 I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me)
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 We knowe surely, yt yf oure earthy house of this dwellynge were destroyed, we haue a buyldynge ordeyned of God, an house not made with handes, but euerlastynge in heauen.
• Rom 9:23-24 : 23 that he mighte declare the riches off his glorye on ye vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared vnto glorye, 24 whom he hath called (namely vs) not onely of the Iewes, but also of the Gentyles.
• Rom 1:6-7 : 6 of whom ye are a parte also, which are called of Iesus Christ. 7 To all you that be at Rome, beloued of God, and sayntes by callynge Grace be wt you and peace fro God oure father, and the LORDE Iesus Christ.
• Rom 9:11 : 11 or euer the childre were borne, & had done nether good ner bad (that the purpose of God might stode acordinge to the eleccion, not by the deseruynge of workes, but by the grace of the caller)
• Acts 13:48 : 48 Whan the Gentyles herde that, they were glad, and praysed the worde of the LORDE, and beleued, eue as many as were ordeyned to euerlastinge life.
• Gal 5:8 : 8 Soch councell is not of him that hath called you.
• 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herein is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his sonne to make agremet for oure synnes.
• 2 Thess 1:5-7 : 5 which is a token of the righteous iudgment of God, that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdome of God, for the which ye also suffre. 6 For it is a righteous thinge with God, to recopence tribulacion vnto the yt trouble you: 7 but vnto you which are troubled, rest with vs, wha the LORDE Iesus shal shewe himselfe from heauen, with the angels of his power,