Luke 18:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You know the commandments:‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὰς ἐντολὰς οἶδας, Μὴ μοιχεύσῃς, Μὴ φονεύσῃς, Μὴ κλέψῃς, Μὴ ψευδομαρτυρήσῃς, Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα σου.

Transliteration

The entolas oidas, Not moicheusēs, Not phoneusēs, Not klepsēs, Not pseudomartyrēsēs, Tima the patera of-you and the mētera of-you.

Grammar Details

• *entolas*: accusative feminine plural - commandments
• *oidas*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person singular - you know
• *moicheusēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might commit adultery
• *phoneusēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might murder
• *klepsēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might steal
• *pseudomartyrēsēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might bear false witness
• *Tima*: present active imperative, 2nd person singular - honor
• *patera*: accusative masculine singular - father
• *mētera*: accusative feminine singular - mother

Word Meanings

• *entolas*: commandments/orders/instructions
• *oidas*: you know/have known
• *moicheusēs*: you might commit adultery [used as prohibition]
• *phoneusēs*: you might murder/kill [used as prohibition]
• *klepsēs*: you might steal [used as prohibition]
• *pseudomartyrēsēs*: you might bear false witness/testify falsely [used as prohibition]
• *Tima*: honor/value/respect

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:12-17 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
• Rom 13:9 : 9 For the commandments,“Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,”(and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this,“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.” 11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. 12 But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them. 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
• Eph 6:2 : 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,
• Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
• Jas 2:8-9 : 8 But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. 10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.
• Deut 5:16-21 : 16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you. 17 You must not murder. 18 You must not commit adultery. 19 You must not steal. 20 You must not offer false testimony against another. 21 You must not desire another man’s wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”
• Isa 8:20 : 20 Then you must recall the LORD’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.
• Matt 19:17-19 : 17 He said to him,“Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 “Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied,“Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Mark 10:18-19 : 18 Jesus said to him,“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments:‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”
• Luke 10:26-28 : 26 He said to him,“What is written in the law? How do you understand it?” 27 The expert answered,“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.” 28 Jesus said to him,“You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
• Rom 3:20 : 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive 10 and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death! 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.