Luke 18:1

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ἔλεγεν δὲ καὶ παραβολὴν αὐτοῖς, πρὸς τὸ δεῖν πάντοτε προσεύχεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἐκκακεῖν·

Transliteration

Elegen de and parabolēn to-them, pros the dein always proseuchesthai, and not ekkakein;

Grammar Details

• *Elegen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was speaking/saying [continuous action]
• *de*: conjunction, adversative/transitional - but/and/now
• *parabolēn*: accusative feminine singular - parable/comparison
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - for/toward [purpose]
• *dein*: present active infinitive - necessity/obligation
• *proseuchesthai*: present middle/passive infinitive - to pray
• *ekkakein*: present active infinitive - to lose heart/give up/grow weary

Word Meanings

• *Elegen*: was telling/was saying/continued speaking
• *parabolēn*: parable/analogy/comparison/illustration
• *dein*: necessity/ought/must/should
• *ekkakein*: lose heart/become discouraged/give up/grow weary

Referenced Verses

• Col 4:2 : 2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
• 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 Pray without ceasing.
• Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Eph 6:18 : 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
• Phil 4:6 : 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
• Ps 55:16-17 : 16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. 17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
• Luke 21:36 : 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Luke 11:5-9 : 5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? 7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. 8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. 9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
• Jer 29:12 : 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
• Ps 86:3 : 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
• Ps 102:17 : 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
• Gal 6:9 : 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• Gen 32:24-26 : 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
• Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
• Ps 27:13 : 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Ps 65:2 : 2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
• Ps 142:5-7 : 5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
• Jonah 2:7 : 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
• Heb 12:3-5 : 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
• Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Gen 32:9-9 : 9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.