Matthew 24:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ διὰ τὸ πληθυνθῆναι τὴν ἀνομίαν, ψυγήσεται ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν πολλῶν.

Transliteration

And because of the plēthynthēnai the anomian, psygēsetai the agapē of the many.

Grammar Details

• *plēthynthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be multiplied/increased
• *anomian*: accusative feminine singular - lawlessness/iniquity
• *psygēsetai*: future passive, 3rd person singular - will grow cold
• *agapē*: nominative feminine singular - love

Word Meanings

• *plēthynthēnai*: to be multiplied/increased/abound
• *anomian*: lawlessness/iniquity/wickedness
• *psygēsetai*: will grow cold/become cool/chill
• *agapē*: love/charity/affection

Referenced Verses

• Rev 2:4-5 : 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
• Jas 4:1-4 : 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• Rev 3:15 : 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
• Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.