Jude 1:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὑμεῖς δέ, ἀγαπητοί, τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ ὑμῶν πίστει ἐποικοδομοῦντες ἑαυτοὺς, ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίω προσευχόμενοι,

Transliteration

You de, agapētoi, in the hagiōtatē of you pistei epoikodomountes heautous, in Pneumati Hagiō proseuchomenoi,

Grammar Details

• *de*: adversative particle - but/however
• *agapētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - beloved
• *hagiōtatē*: dative, feminine, singular, superlative adjective - most holy
• *pistei*: dative, feminine, singular - faith
• *epoikodomountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - building up
• *heautous*: accusative, reflexive pronoun, masculine, plural - yourselves
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagiō*: dative, neuter, singular, adjective - Holy
• *proseuchomenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - praying

Word Meanings

• *agapētoi*: beloved/dear ones
• *hagiōtatē*: most holy/holiest
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust
• *epoikodomountes*: building up/edifying/constructing upon
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/spirit
• *proseuchomenoi*: praying/entreating/worshiping

Referenced Verses

• 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;
• Col 2:7 : 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• Rom 8:26-27 : 26 {G1161} Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
• 1 Cor 14:15 : 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
• 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
• 1 Cor 14:4-5 : 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5 {G1161} I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
• 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 John 5:4 : 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
• Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
• Rev 13:10 : 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
• Rom 15:2 : 2 {G1063} Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
• 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 15:9 : 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
• Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
• 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
• Gal 4:6 : 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
• Eph 4:12 : 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• Eph 4:16 : 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
• Jas 2:22 : 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
• 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
• 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
• Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
• 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.