Romans 12:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Be of like affection one towardes another: be not hie minded: but make your selues equall to them of the lower sort: be not wise in your selues.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸ αὐτὸ εἰς ἀλλήλους φρονοῦντες. Μὴ τὰ ὑψηλὰ φρονοῦντες, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ταπεινοῖς συναπαγόμενοι. Μὴ γίνεσθε φρόνιμοι παρʼ ἑαυτοῖς.

Transliteration

The same toward allēlous fronountes. Not the hypsēla fronountes, but to the tapeinois synapagomenoi. Not ginesthe fronimoi with yourselves.

Grammar Details

• *allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another
• *fronountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - thinking/minding
• *hypsēla*: accusative, neuter, plural - high things/lofty things
• *tapeinois*: dative, masculine/neuter, plural - to lowly things/people
• *synapagomenoi*: present middle/passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - being carried away with/associating with
• *ginesthe*: present middle/passive imperative, 2nd person plural - become/be
• *fronimoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - wise/prudent

Word Meanings

• *allēlous*: one another/each other
• *fronountes*: thinking/minding/setting your mind on
• *hypsēla*: high things/lofty things/proud things
• *tapeinois*: lowly things/humble people/people of low position
• *synapagomenoi*: being carried away with/associating with/condescending to
• *ginesthe*: become/be/happen
• *fronimoi*: wise/prudent/sensible

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Finally, be ye all of one minde: one suffer with another: loue as brethren: bee pitifull: bee courteous,
• Prov 3:7 : 7 Be not wise in thine owne eyes: but feare the Lord, and depart from euill.
• Rom 15:5 : 5 Now the God of patience and consolation giue you that ye be like minded one towards another, according to Christ Iesus,
• Jas 3:13-17 : 13 Who is a wise man & endued with knowledge among you? let him shew by good conuersation his workes in meekenesse of wisdome. 14 But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth. 15 This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish. 16 For where enuying and strife is, there is sedition, and all maner of euill workes. 17 But the wisedome that is from aboue, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easie to be intreated, full of mercie & good fruites, without iudging, and without hipocrisie.
• Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne sight.
• Rom 11:25 : 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this secret (least ye should bee arrogant in your selues) that partly obstinacie is come to Israel, vntill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in.
• Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said,
• Phil 4:2 : 2 I pray Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of one accord in the Lord,
• 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 Nowe, if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to knowe.
• 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man deceiue himselfe: If any man among you seeme to be wise in this world, let him be a foole, that he may be wise.
• Jer 45:5 : 5 And seekest thou great things for thy self? seeke them not: for beholde, I wil bring a plague vpon al flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life wil I giue thee for a pray in all places, whither thou goest.
• Prov 26:12 : 12 Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceite? more hope is of a foole then of him.
• Matt 6:25-26 : 25 Therefore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth then meate? and the bodie then raiment? 26 Behold the foules of the heauen: for they sowe not, neither reape, nor carie into the barnes: yet your heauenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better then they?
• Matt 11:5 : 5 The blinde receiue sight, and the halt doe walke: the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receiue the Gospel.
• Matt 18:1-4 : 1 The same time the disciples came vnto Iesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen? 2 And Iesus called a litle childe vnto him, and set him in the mids of them, 3 And sayd, Verely I say vnto you, except ye be conuerted, and become as litle children, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen. 4 Whosoeuer therefore shal humble himselfe as this litle childe, the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen.
• Matt 20:21-28 : 21 And he said vnto her, What wouldest thou? She said to him, Graunt that these my two sonnes may sit, the one at thy right hand, and the other at thy left hand in thy kingdome. 22 And Iesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and to be baptized with the baptisme that I shalbe baptized with? They said to him, We are able. 23 And he said vnto them, Ye shall drinke in deede of my cup, and shall be baptized with the baptisme, that I am baptized with, but to sit at my right hande, and at my left hand, is not mine to giue: but it shalbe giuen to them for whome it is prepared of my Father. 24 And when the other ten heard this, they disdained at the two brethren. 25 Therefore Iesus called them vnto him, and saide, We knowe that the lordes of the Gentiles haue domination ouer them, and they that are great, exercise authoritie ouer them. 26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoeuer will be great among you, let him be your seruant. 27 And whosoeuer will be chiefe among you, let him be your seruant. 28 Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.
• Matt 26:11 : 11 For yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.
• Luke 4:6-9 : 6 And the deuill saide vnto him, All this power will I giue thee, and the glory of those kingdomes: for that is deliuered to mee: and to whomsoeuer I will, I giue it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship mee, they shalbe all thine. 8 But Iesus answered him, and saide, Hence from mee, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God, and him alone thou shalt serue. 9 Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence, 10 For it is written, That hee will giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee: 11 And with their handes they shall lift thee vp, least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.
• Luke 6:20 : 20 And hee lifted vp his eyes vpon his disciples, and sayd, Blessed be ye poore: for yours is the kingdome of God.
• Luke 14:13 : 13 But when thou makest a feast, call ye poore, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,
• Luke 22:24-27 : 24 And there arose also a strife among them, which of them should seeme to be ye greatest. 25 But hee saide vnto them, The Kings of the Gentiles reigne ouer them, and they that beare rule ouer them, are called bountifull. 26 But yee shall not be so: but let the greatest among you be as the least: and the chiefest as he that serueth. 27 For who is greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at table? And I am among you as he that serueth.
• Acts 4:32 : 32 And the multitude of them that beleeued, were of one heart, and of one soule: neither any of them said, that any thing of that which he possessed, was his owne, but they had all thinges common.
• Rom 6:2 : 2 Howe shall we, that are dead to sinne, liue yet therein?
• Prov 17:5 : 5 Hee that mocketh the poore, reprocheth him, that made him: and he that reioyceth at destruction, shall not be vnpunished.
• Prov 19:7 : 7 All the brethren of the poore doe hate him: howe much more will his friends depart farre from him? though hee be instant with wordes, yet they will not.
• Prov 19:17 : 17 He that hath mercy vpon the poore, lendeth vnto the Lorde: and the Lorde will recompense him that which he hath giuen.
• Prov 19:22 : 22 That that is to be desired of a man, is his goodnes, and a poore man is better then a lyer.
• 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 And the hand of God was in Iudah, so that he gaue them one heart to doe the commaundement of the King, and of the rulers, according to the worde of the Lord.
• Job 36:5 : 5 Behold, the mighty God casteth away none that is mighty and valiant of courage.
• Ps 131:1-2 : 1 A song of degrees or Psalme of Dauid. Lorde, mine heart is not hautie, neither are mine eyes loftie, neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me. 2 Surely I haue behaued my selfe, like one wained from his mother, and kept silence: I am in my selfe as one that is wained.
• 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised.
• 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I speake it to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no not one, that can iudge betweene his brethren?
• 1 Cor 1:10 : 10 Nowe I beseeche you, brethren, by the Name of our Lorde Iesus Christ, that ye all speake one thing, and that there be no dissensions among you: but be ye knit together in one mind, and in one iudgement.
• Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say through the grace that is giuen vnto me, to euery one that is among you, that no man presume to vnderstande aboue that which is meete to vnderstand, but that he vnderstande according to sobrietie, as God hath dealt to euery man the measure of faith.
• Jer 32:39 : 39 And I wil giue them one heart and one way that they may feare me for euer for ye wealth of them, and of their children after them.
• 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally brethren, fare ye wel: be perfect: be of good comfort: be of one minde: liue in peace, and the God of loue and peace shalbe with you.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Onely let your conuersation be, as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or els be absent, I may heare of your matters that ye continue in one Spirit, and in one mind, fighting together through the faith of the Gospel.
• Phil 2:2-3 : 2 Fulfill my ioye, that ye be like minded, hauing the same loue, being of one accorde, and of one iudgement, 3 That nothing be done through contention or vaine glory, but that in meekenesse of minde euery man esteeme other better then himselfe.
• Phil 3:16 : 16 Neuerthelesse, in that whereunto wee are come, let vs proceede by one rule, that wee may minde one thing.
• Phil 4:11-13 : 11 I speake not because of want: for I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am, therewith to bee content. 12 And I can be abased, and I can abounde: euery where in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungrie, and to abounde, and to haue want. 13 I am able to do al things through the helpe of Christ, which strengtheneth me.
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godlinesse is great gaine, if a man be content with that he hath. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certaine, that we can carie nothing out. 8 Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content. 9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.
• Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Hearken my beloued brethren, hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, that they should be rich in faith, and heires of the kingdome which he promised to them that loue him? 6 But ye haue despised the poore. Doe not the riche oppresse you by tyrannie, and doe not they drawe you before the iudgement seates?
• Job 31:13-16 : 13 If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they did contend with me, 14 What then shal I do when God standeth vp? & when he shal visit me, what shal I answere? 15 He that hath made me in the wombe, hath he not made him? hath not he alone facioned vs in the wombe? 16 If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Not as though ye were lords ouer Gods heritage, but that yee may bee ensamples to the flocke.
• 3 John 1:9 : 9 I wrote vnto the Church: but Diotrephes which loueth to haue the preeminence among them, receiueth vs not.
• Rev 13:7-8 : 7 And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them, & power was giuen him ouer euery kinred, and tongue, and nation. 8 Therefore all that dwell vpon the earth, shall worship him, whose names are not written in the booke of life of that Lambe, which was slaine from the beginning of the world.