1 Thessalonians 2:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὑμεῖς γὰρ μιμηταὶ ἐγενήθητε, ἀδελφοί, τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ τῶν οὐσῶν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ: ὅτι ταὐτὰ ἐπάθετε καὶ ὑμεῖς ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων συμφυλετῶν, καθὼς καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίων:

Transliteration

You gar mimētai egenēthēte, adelphoi, of the ekklēsiōn of the Theou the ones ousōn in the Ioudaia in Christō Iēsou: because the same things you epathete kai you by the idiōn symphyletōn, kathōs kai they by the Ioudaiōn:

Grammar Details

• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/because
• *mimētai*: nominative, masculine, plural - imitators/followers
• *egenēthēte*: aorist passive indicative, 2nd person plural - you became
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *ekklēsiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - of churches/assemblies
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *ousōn*: present active participle, genitive, feminine, plural - being/which are
• *Ioudaia*: dative, feminine, singular - Judea
• *Christō*: dative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *Iēsou*: dative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *epathete*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you suffered
• *kai*: conjunction - also/even
• *idiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - your own
• *symphyletōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - countrymen/fellow citizens
• *kathōs kai*: comparative adverb + conjunction - just as also
• *Ioudaiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of Jews

Word Meanings

• *mimētai*: imitators/followers
• *egenēthēte*: you became/were
• *ekklēsiōn*: churches/assemblies/congregations
• *epathete*: you suffered/experienced
• *symphyletōn*: countrymen/fellow citizens/compatriots

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 3:4 : 4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
• 2 Thess 1:4 : 4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
• Gal 1:22 : 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
• Heb 10:33-34 : 33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
• 2 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
• 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
• Heb 5:7-8 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
• 2 Thess 1:1 : 1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
• 1 Thess 1:1 : 1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 8:1 : 1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
• Acts 8:3 : 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
• Acts 9:1 : 1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
• Acts 9:13 : 13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
• Acts 9:31 : 31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
• Acts 11:19 : 19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
• Acts 12:1-3 : 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also.(Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
• Acts 17:1-8 : 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. 4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; 7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. 8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
• Acts 17:13 : 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
• 1 Cor 7:17 : 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.