2 Corinthians 8:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ, ὥσπερ ἐν παντὶ περισσεύετε πίστει, καὶ λόγῳ, καὶ γνώσει, καὶ πάσῃ σπουδῇ, καὶ τῇ ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐν ἡμῖν ἀγάπῃ, ἵνα καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ χάριτι περισσεύητε.

Transliteration

But, just as in everything you perisseuete in pistei, and logō, and gnōsei, and all spoudē, and the from you in us agapē, that also in this the chariti you might perisseuēte.

Grammar Details

• *All*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *hōsper*: comparative adverb - just as
• *panti*: dative, neuter singular - everything/all things
• *perisseuete*: present indicative active, 2nd person plural - you abound
• *pistei*: dative, feminine singular - faith/belief
• *logō*: dative, masculine singular - word/speech
• *gnōsei*: dative, feminine singular - knowledge
• *pasē*: dative, feminine singular - all/every
• *spoudē*: dative, feminine singular - earnestness/diligence
• *ex*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• ὑμῶν: genitive, 2nd person plural - of you
• ἡμῖν: dative, 1st person plural - in us
• *agapē*: dative, feminine singular - love
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *tautē*: dative, feminine singular demonstrative - this
• *chariti*: dative, feminine singular - grace/favor
• *perisseuēte*: present subjunctive active, 2nd person plural - you might abound

Word Meanings

• *perisseuete*: you abound/excel/overflow
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust
• *logō*: word/speech/utterance/message
• *gnōsei*: knowledge/understanding
• *spoudē*: earnestness/diligence/eagerness/zeal
• *agapē*: love/charity/benevolence
• *chariti*: grace/favor/gift/blessing
• *perisseuēte*: you might abound/excel/overflow

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 9:8 : 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
• 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
• 2 Pet 1:5-8 : 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
• Phil 1:11 : 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
• 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
• 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• 2 Tim 2:1 : 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
• Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
• Rev 3:17 : 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
• 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
• 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
• 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
• 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
• 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
• 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
• 2 Cor 7:7 : 7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
• 2 Cor 8:6 : 6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.