Titus 3:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἵνα δικαιωθέντες τῇ ἐκείνου χάριτι, κληρονόμοι γενώμεθα κατʼ ἐλπίδα ζωῆς αἰωνίου.

Transliteration

So that dikaiōthentes tē ekeinou chariti, klēronomoi genōmetha kat' elpida zōēs aiōniou.

Grammar Details

• So that: conjunction (Ἵνα) - so that/in order that
• *dikaiōthentes*: aorist passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been justified
• *tē*: dative, feminine, singular - by the
• *ekeinou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of that one/his
• *chariti*: dative, feminine, singular - grace/favor
• *klēronomoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - heirs
• *genōmetha*: aorist middle subjunctive, 1st plural - we might become
• *kat'*: preposition + accusative - according to
• *elpida*: accusative, feminine, singular - hope
• *zōēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of life
• *aiōniou*: genitive, feminine, singular - eternal

Word Meanings

• *dikaiōthentes*: having been justified/declared righteous/made righteous
• *ekeinou*: of that one/his/that person's
• *chariti*: grace/favor/kindness
• *klēronomoi*: heirs/inheritors
• *genōmetha*: we might become/we might be made
• *elpida*: hope/expectation
• *zōēs*: of life/of living
• *aiōniou*: eternal/everlasting/endless

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:17 : 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
• Rom 3:24 : 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• Titus 2:11 : 11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
• Titus 2:13 : 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• Heb 6:17 : 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
• Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
• Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
• Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
• 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
• Gal 2:16 : 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
• Gal 3:29 : 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
• Gal 4:7 : 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
• Rom 3:28 : 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
• Rom 4:4 : 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
• Rom 4:16 : 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
• Rom 5:1-2 : 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Rom 5:15-21 : 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 8:23-24 : 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
• Rom 11:6 : 6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.