Acts 20:32

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ τὰ νῦν παρατίθεμαι ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοὶ, τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ τῷ λόγῳ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ, τῷ δυναμένῳ ἐποἰκοδομῆσαι, καὶ δοῦναι ὑμῖν κληρονομίαν ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις πᾶσιν.

Transliteration

And the now paratithemai you, adelphoi, to-the Theō, and to-the logō of-the charitos of-him, to-the dynamenō epoikodomēsai, and dounai to-you klēronomian among the hēgiasmenois all.

Grammar Details

• *paratithemai*: present indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I commend/entrust
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God
• *logō*: dative, masculine, singular - to word
• *charitos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of grace
• *dynamenō*: present participle, middle, dative, masculine, singular - being able
• *epoikodomēsai*: aorist infinitive, active - to build up
• *dounai*: aorist infinitive, active - to give
• *klēronomian*: accusative, feminine, singular - inheritance
• *hēgiasmenois*: perfect participle, passive, dative, masculine, plural - having been sanctified

Word Meanings

• *paratithemai*: I commend/entrust/commit
• *adelphoi*: brothers/brethren
• *Theō*: God/deity
• *logō*: word/message
• *charitos*: grace/favor
• *dynamenō*: being able/having power
• *epoikodomēsai*: to build up/edify
• *dounai*: to give/grant
• *klēronomian*: inheritance/possession
• *hēgiasmenois*: having been sanctified/made holy/consecrated

Referenced Verses

• Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
• Heb 9:15 : 15 And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.
• Col 3:24 : 24 because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• Acts 14:23 : 23 When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.
• Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
• Acts 20:24 : 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
• Jer 3:19 : 19 “I thought to myself,‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ I thought you would call me,‘Father’ and would never cease being loyal to me.
• Eph 1:14 : 14 who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
• Eph 1:18 : 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
• Acts 9:31 : 31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.
• Acts 14:3 : 3 So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.
• Jude 1:20 : 20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,
• Jude 1:24-25 : 24 Final Blessing Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence, 25 to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.
• Heb 2:11 : 11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
• Gen 50:24 : 24 Then Joseph said to his brothers,“I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
• Heb 10:14 : 14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
• 1 Pet 1:4-5 : 4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, wrapped in the love of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.
• Acts 14:26 : 26 From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.
• Acts 15:40 : 40 but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.
• Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”
• John 15:3 : 3 You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.
• John 17:17 : 17 Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.
• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 4:12 : 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,
• Eph 4:16 : 16 From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy(such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
• 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.