John 8:34

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἀμὴν, ἀμὴν, λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι Πᾶς ὁ ποιῶν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν δοῦλός ἐστιν τῆς ἁμαρτίας.

Transliteration

Apekrithē to-them the Iēsous, Amēn, amēn, legō to-you, that Pas ho poiōn tēn hamartian doulos estin tēs hamartias.

Grammar Details

• *Apekrithē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - he answered/replied [completed action]
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *Amēn*: Hebrew loanword - truly/verily
• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I say/tell
• *Pas*: adjective, nominative masculine singular - everyone/all
• *ho poiōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular - the one doing/practicing
• *tēn hamartian*: accusative feminine singular - the sin
• *doulos*: nominative masculine singular - slave/servant
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *tēs hamartias*: genitive feminine singular - of the sin

Word Meanings

• *Amēn*: truly/verily/certainly [emphatic Hebrew affirmation]
• *poiōn*: doing/practicing/committing/performing
• *hamartian*: sin/missing the mark/error/failure
• *doulos*: slave/servant/bondservant

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
• Rom 6:16 : 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
• Rom 6:19-20 : 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
• Rom 6:6 : 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
• Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
• Rom 7:25 : 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
• Rom 8:21 : 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
• Acts 8:23 : 23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
• Matt 5:18 : 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.