Romans 12:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

📖 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 mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• Prov 3:7 : 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
• Rom 15:5 : 5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
• Jas 3:13-17 : 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
• Rom 11:25 : 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
• Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
• Phil 4:2 : 2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
• 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
• 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• Jer 45:5 : 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
• Prov 26:12 : 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Matt 6:25-26 : 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
• Matt 11:5 : 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
• Matt 18:1-4 : 1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
• Matt 20:21-28 : 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. 23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. 24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. 25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• Matt 26:11 : 11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
• Luke 4:6-9 : 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. 8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: 10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: 11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
• Luke 6:20 : 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
• Luke 14:13 : 13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
• Luke 22:24-27 : 24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. 26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. 27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
• Acts 4:32 : 32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
• Rom 6:2 : 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
• Prov 19:7 : 7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
• Prov 19:17 : 17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
• Prov 19:22 : 22 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
• 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
• Job 36:5 : 5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
• Ps 131:1-2 : 1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
• 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
• 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
• 1 Cor 1:10 : 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
• Jer 32:39 : 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• Phil 2:2-3 : 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
• Phil 3:16 : 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
• Phil 4:11-13 : 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
• Job 31:13-16 : 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
• 3 John 1:9 : 9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
• Rev 13:7-8 : 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.