John 6:27

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐργάζεσθε μὴ τὴν βρῶσιν τὴν ἀπολλυμένην, ἀλλὰ τὴν βρῶσιν τὴν μένουσαν εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, ἣν ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὑμῖν δώσει: τοῦτον γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ ἐσφράγισεν ὁ Θεός.

Transliteration

Ergazesthe not for the brōsin the apollymenēn, but for the brōsin the menousan into zōēn aiōnion, which the Hyios of the anthrōpou to you dōsei: this one gar the Patēr esphragisen the Theos.

Grammar Details

• *Ergazesthe*: present, imperative, middle, 2nd plural - work/labor
• *brōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - food
• *apollymenēn*: present, participle, middle, accusative, feminine, singular - perishing
• *menousan*: present, participle, active, accusative, feminine, singular - remaining/enduring
• *zōēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life
• *aiōnion*: accusative, feminine, singular - eternal/everlasting
• *Hyios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: genitive, masculine, singular - man/mankind
• *dōsei*: future, indicative, active, 3rd singular - will give
• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/because
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *esphragisen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd singular - sealed/certified
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God

Word Meanings

• *Ergazesthe*: work/labor/strive
• *brōsin*: food/nourishment/meat
• *apollymenēn*: perishing/decaying/being destroyed
• *menousan*: remaining/enduring/lasting
• *zōēn*: life/existence
• *aiōnion*: eternal/everlasting/age-lasting
• *Hyios*: Son
• *anthrōpou*: man/mankind/humanity
• *Patēr*: Father
• *esphragisen*: sealed/certified/authorized
• *Theos*: God/deity

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:2 : 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
• John 6:54 : 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
• Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• John 6:40 : 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
• John 17:2 : 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
• Acts 10:38 : 38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
• John 6:58 : 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
• John 10:28 : 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
• Prov 2:2-6 : 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
• John 5:36-37 : 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
• John 6:28-29 : 28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
• Ps 2:7 : 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
• Ps 40:7 : 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
• Eccl 5:11-16 : 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. 15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. 16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
• Eccl 6:7 : 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
• Isa 11:1-3 : 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
• John 10:37-38 : 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
• John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
• 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.
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• John 15:24 : 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
• John 6:68 : 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• John 8:18 : 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
• Isa 61:1-3 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
• Jer 15:16 : 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
• Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
• Matt 3:17 : 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• Matt 6:19 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
• Matt 6:31-33 : 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
• Matt 17:5 : 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
• Mark 1:11 : 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• Mark 9:7 : 7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
• Luke 3:22 : 22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
• Luke 4:18-21 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
• Luke 9:35 : 35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
• Luke 10:40-42 : 40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. 41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: 42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
• John 1:33-34 : 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
• John 3:33 : 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
• John 4:13-14 : 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Rom 4:11 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
• Acts 2:22 : 22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
• 1 Cor 9:2 : 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
• 1 Cor 9:24-27 : 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• 2 Cor 4:18 : 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
• Col 2:22 : 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
• Col 3:2 : 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
• Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
• Heb 12:16 : 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
• Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
• 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• 2 Pet 3:11-14 : 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
• Isa 42:1 : 1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.