John 6:63

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you,› [they] ‹are spirit, and› [they] ‹are life.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸ πνεῦμά ἐστιν τὸ ζωοποιοῦν· ἡ σὰρξ οὐκ ὠφελεῖ οὐδέν: τὰ ῥήματα ἃ ἐγὼ λαλῶ ὑμῖν, πνεῦμά ἐστιν, καὶ ζωή ἐστιν.

Transliteration

The pneuma estin the zōopoioun; the sarx not ōphelei nothing: the rhēmata which I lalō to you, pneuma estin, and zōē estin.

Grammar Details

• *pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - spirit
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *zōopoioun*: present active participle, nominative, neuter, singular - giving life
• *sarx*: nominative, feminine, singular - flesh
• *ōphelei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - profits/benefits
• *rhēmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - words/sayings
• *lalō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I speak/say
• *zōē*: nominative, feminine, singular - life

Word Meanings

• *pneuma*: spirit/breath/wind
• *estin*: is/exists
• *zōopoioun*: giving life/making alive/vivifying
• *sarx*: flesh/body/physical nature
• *ōphelei*: profits/benefits/helps
• *rhēmata*: words/sayings/statements
• *lalō*: speak/say/tell
• *zōē*: life/existence

Referenced Verses

• John 6:68 : 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• Ps 119:93 : 93 ¶ I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
• Ps 119:130 : 130 ¶ The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
• Rom 10:17 : 17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
• 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit.
• Deut 32:47 : 47 For it [is] not a vain thing for you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
• Ps 119:50 : 50 ¶ This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
• Ps 19:7-9 : 7 ¶ The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
• 2 Cor 3:6-8 : 6 ¶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Gal 5:25 : 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
• Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
• 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• Rom 10:8-9 : 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 ¶ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
• Gal 6:15 : 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 ¶ For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
• 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• 1 Cor 2:9-9 : 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 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 Cor 11:27-29 : 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and drink of [that] cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
• Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• John 12:49-50 : 49 ‹For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.› 50 ‹And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.›
• Rom 2:25 : 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
• Rom 3:1-2 : 1 ¶ What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 ¶ The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: