Matthew 7:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ ‹Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἂν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς: οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται.

Transliteration

All things oun whatever an thelēte hina poiōsin hymin hoi anthrōpoi, houtōs also hymeis poieite autois: this gar estin ho nomos and hoi prophētai.

Grammar Details

• *Panta*: accusative plural neuter - all things
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/then
• *hosa*: relative pronoun, accusative plural neuter - as many as/whatever
• *an*: modal particle with subjunctive - would/might
• *thelēte*: present active subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might wish/want
• *hina*: conjunction introducing purpose clause - that/so that
• *poiōsin*: present active subjunctive, 3rd person plural - they might do
• *hymin*: dative plural - to you
• *hoi anthrōpoi*: nominative plural masculine - the men/people
• *houtōs*: demonstrative adverb - thus/in this manner
• *kai*: conjunction - also/even/and
• *hymeis*: nominative plural - you
• *poieite*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - do/make
• *autois*: dative plural masculine - to them
• *houtos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative singular masculine - this
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *ho nomos*: nominative singular masculine - the law
• *hoi prophētai*: nominative plural masculine - the prophets

Word Meanings

• *thelēte*: wish/want/desire
• *poiōsin*: do/make/perform/act
• *anthrōpoi*: men/people/human beings
• *poieite*: do/make/perform/act
• *nomos*: law/Torah/instruction
• *prophētai*: prophets/those who speak for God

Referenced Verses

• Luke 6:31 : 31 ‹And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.›
• Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
• Gal 5:13-14 : 13 ¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Lev 19:18 : 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
• Zech 8:16-17 : 16 These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD.
• Amos 5:14-15 : 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
• Zech 7:7-9 : 7 [Should ye] not [hear] the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when [men] inhabited the south and the plain? 8 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
• Mark 12:29-34 : 29 And Jesus answered him, ‹The first of all the commandments› [is], ‹Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:› 30 ‹And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this› [is] ‹the first commandment.› 31 ‹And the second› [is] ‹like,› [namely] ‹this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.› 32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, ‹Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.› And no man after that durst ask him [any question].
• Matt 22:39-40 : 39 ‹And the second› [is] ‹like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.› 40 ‹On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.›
• 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 ¶ Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
• Jer 7:5-6 : 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
• Ezek 18:7-8 : 7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; 8 He [that] hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, [that] hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
• Ezek 18:21 : 21 ¶ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Isa 1:17-18 : 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Jas 2:10-13 : 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.