1 John 5:14

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ παρρησία ἣν ἔχομεν πρὸς αὐτόν, ὅτι, ἐάν τι αἰτώμεθα κατὰ τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, ἀκούει ἡμῶν:

Transliteration

And this estin the parrēsia which we echomen pros him, that, if anything we aitōmetha according to the thelēma of him, he akouei us:

Grammar Details

• *hautē*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - this
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *parrēsia*: nominative, feminine, singular - confidence/boldness
• *hēn*: relative pronoun, accusative, feminine, singular - which
• *echomen*: present active indicative, 1st plural - we have
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - toward/with
• *auton*: personal pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - him
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *ean*: conditional conjunction - if
• *ti*: indefinite pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular - anything
• *aitōmetha*: present middle subjunctive, 1st plural - we ask for ourselves
• *kata*: preposition with accusative - according to
• *thelēma*: accusative, neuter, singular - will
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *akouei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - he hears
• *hēmōn*: personal pronoun, genitive, 1st plural - of us

Word Meanings

• *parrēsia*: confidence/boldness/freedom of speech
• *echomen*: we have/we possess/we hold
• *pros*: toward/with/in relation to
• *aitōmetha*: we ask for ourselves/we request/we petition
• *thelēma*: will/desire/purpose
• *akouei*: he hears/he listens to/he pays attention to

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 3:21-22 : 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
• John 14:13 : 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• John 16:24 : 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
• Jas 4:3 : 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
• Eph 3:12 : 12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
• John 15:7 : 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
• Ps 34:17 : 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
• Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
• Jer 33:3 : 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
• Jas 1:5-6 : 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
• Job 34:28 : 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
• John 9:31 : 31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
• Ps 31:22 : 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
• Ps 69:33 : 33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
• Jer 29:12-13 : 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
• Matt 21:22 : 22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
• Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
• Matt 7:7-9 : 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
• John 11:42 : 42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.