John 14:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

[Even] ‹the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας· ὃ ὁ κόσμος οὐ δύναται λαβεῖν, ὅτι οὐ θεωρεῖ αὐτό, οὐδὲ γινώσκει αὐτό: ὑμεῖς δὲ γινώσκετε αὐτό· ὅτι παρʼ ὑμῖν μένει, καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν ἔσται.

Transliteration

The Pneuma of the alētheias; whom the kosmos not dynatai labein, because not theōrei auto, neither ginōskei auto: but you ginōskete auto; because par' hymin menei, and in you estai.

Grammar Details

• *Pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *alētheias*: genitive, feminine, singular - truth
• *kosmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - world
• *dynatai*: present indicative middle, 3rd person singular - is able
• *labein*: aorist infinitive active - to receive
• *theōrei*: present indicative active, 3rd person singular - sees/beholds
• *auto*: accusative, neuter, singular pronoun - it
• *ginōskei*: present indicative active, 3rd person singular - knows
• *ginōskete*: present indicative active, 2nd person plural - you know
• *par' hymin*: preposition + dative pronoun - with you
• *menei*: present indicative active, 3rd person singular - remains/abides
• *estai*: future indicative, 3rd person singular - will be
• ὑμεῖς: nominative, 2nd person plural pronoun - you
• ὑμῖν: dative, 2nd person plural pronoun - in you/among you

Word Meanings

• *Pneuma*: Spirit/wind/breath
• *alētheias*: truth/reality
• *kosmos*: world/ordered system/universe/human society
• *theōrei*: sees/perceives/observes
• *ginōskei*: knows/understands/perceives
• *menei*: remains/abides/stays/dwells

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:27 : 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
• John 15:26 : 26 ¶ ‹But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,› [even] ‹the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:›
• John 16:13 : 13 ‹Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,› [that] ‹shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.›
• 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
• 1 John 4:6 : 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, ‹If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.›
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].
• Matt 10:20 : 20 ‹For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.›
• John 14:16 : 16 ‹And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;›
• Isa 59:21 : 21 As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
• Rom 8:9-9 : 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 ¶ And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• Rom 8:13-14 : 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
• Gal 4:6 : 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
• Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Col 1:27 : 27 To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
• 1 Cor 14:15 : 15 ¶ What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
• Prov 14:10 : 10 ¶ The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
• 1 John 3:24 : 24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
• 1 John 4:4 : 4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
• 1 John 4:12-13 : 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
• 1 John 5:7 : 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
• Rev 2:17 : 17 ‹He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth› [it].