James 2:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Σὺ πιστεύεις ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς εἷς ἐστιν· καλῶς ποιεῖς: καὶ τὰ δαιμόνια πιστεύουσιν, καὶ φρίσσουσιν.

Transliteration

You pisteueis that the Theos one estin; kalōs poieis: and the daimonia pisteuousin, and phrissousin.

Grammar Details

• Σὺ: nominative, second person, singular - you
• *pisteueis*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you believe
• ὅτι: conjunction - that
• ὁ *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• εἷς: nominative, masculine, singular, numeral - one
• *estin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *kalōs*: adverb - well
• *poieis*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you do
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• τὰ *daimonia*: nominative, neuter, plural - the demons
• *pisteuousin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they believe
• *phrissousin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they shudder

Word Meanings

• *pisteueis*: believe/trust/have faith
• *Theos*: God/deity
• *estin*: is/exists
• *kalōs poieis*: you do well/act rightly
• *daimonia*: demons/evil spirits
• *pisteuousin*: believe/trust/have faith
• *phrissousin*: shudder/tremble/are terrified

Referenced Verses

• Luke 4:34 : 34 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
• Acts 16:17 : 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
• Matt 8:29 : 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
• Mark 1:24 : 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Mark 5:7 : 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
• Isa 46:9 : 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
• Zech 14:9 : 9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
• Deut 6:4 : 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
• Isa 43:10 : 10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
• Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
• Isa 44:8 : 8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
• Mark 12:29 : 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
• Acts 19:15 : 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
• Rom 3:30 : 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
• 1 Tim 2:5 : 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
• Gal 3:20 : 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Jas 2:8 : 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
• 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
• 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• Isa 45:6 : 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
• Eph 4:5-6 : 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.