Romans 1:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Περὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ τοῦ γενομένου ἐκ σπέρματος Δαυίδ κατὰ σάρκα·

Transliteration

Peri the Huiou autou the genomenou ek spermatos Dauid kata sarka·

Grammar Details

• *Peri*: preposition + genitive - concerning
• *Huiou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Son
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular, possessive pronoun - his
• *genomenou*: aorist middle participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having become/been born
• *ek*: preposition + genitive - from/out of
• *spermatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - seed/offspring
• *Dauid*: genitive, masculine, singular - of David
• *kata*: preposition + accusative - according to
• *sarka*: accusative, feminine, singular - flesh

Word Meanings

• *genomenou*: having become/been born/come into being
• *spermatos*: seed/offspring/descendant
• *sarka*: flesh/physical descent/human nature

Referenced Verses

• Matt 1:1 : 1 ¶ The Genealogy of Jesus Christ This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
• Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
• Jer 23:5-6 : 5 “I, the LORD, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land. 6 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by:‘The LORD has provided us with justice.’
• Luke 1:31-33 : 31 Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. 33 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will never end.”
• Luke 1:35 : 35 The angel replied,“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
• John 1:49 : 49 Nathanael answered him,“Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!”
• John 10:30 : 30 The Father and I are one.”
• Rom 9:5 : 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• John 20:28 : 28 Thomas replied to him,“My Lord and my God!”
• Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
• Ps 2:7 : 7 The king says,“I will announce the LORD’s decree. He said to me:‘You are my son! This very day I have become your father!
• Ps 89:36-37 : 36 His dynasty will last forever. His throne will endure before me, like the sun, 37 it will remain stable, like the moon, his throne will endure like the skies.”(Selah)
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us. He shoulders responsibility and is called: Amazing Adviser, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 His dominion will be vast and he will bring immeasurable prosperity. He will rule on David’s throne and over David’s kingdom, establishing it and strengthening it by promoting justice and fairness, from this time forward and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies will accomplish this.
• Matt 1:20-23 : 20 When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” 22 This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: 23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means“God with us.”
• Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice from heaven said,“This is my one dear Son; in him I take great delight.”
• Matt 9:27 : 27 Healing the Blind and Mute As Jesus went on from there, two blind men began to follow him, shouting,“Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
• Matt 12:23 : 23 All the crowds were amazed and said,“Could this one be the Son of David?”
• Matt 15:22 : 22 A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out,“Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!”
• Matt 22:42-45 : 42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said,“The son of David.” 43 He said to them,“How then does David by the Spirit call him‘Lord,’ saying, 44 ‘The Lord said to my lord,“Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’? 45 If David then calls him‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
• Matt 26:63 : 63 But Jesus was silent. The high priest said to him,“I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
• Matt 27:43 : 43 He trusts in God– let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said,‘I am God’s Son’!”
• 2 Sam 7:12-16 : 12 When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent. 14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings. 15 But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.’”
• Jer 33:15-17 : 15 In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant of David.“‘He will do what is just and right in the land. 16 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Jerusalem will live in security. At that time Jerusalem will be called“The LORD has provided us with justice.” 17 For I, the LORD, promise:“David will never lack a successor to occupy the throne over the nation of Israel.
• Jer 33:26 : 26 Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them.”
• Amos 9:11 : 11 The Restoration of the Davidic Dynasty“In that day I will rebuild the collapsing hut of David. I will seal its gaps, repair its ruins, and restore it to what it was like in days gone by.
• John 20:31 : 31 But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
• Acts 2:30 : 30 So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,
• Acts 3:13 : 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate after he had decided to release him.
• Acts 8:36 : 36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,“Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”
• Acts 9:20 : 20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying,“This man is the Son of God.”
• Acts 13:22-23 : 22 After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him:‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’ 23 From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.
• Rom 1:9 : 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you
• Rom 8:2-3 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
• Rom 8:29-32 : 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified. 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
• Luke 1:69 : 69 For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
• Luke 2:4-6 : 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David. 5 He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.
• John 1:34 : 34 I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.”
• Matt 1:6 : 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.David was the father of Solomon(by the wife of Uriah),
• Matt 1:16 : 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
• 1 John 4:15 : 15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.
• 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.
• 1 John 5:5 : 5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
• 1 John 5:10-13 : 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.) 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life. 13 Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
• 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!
• Rev 2:18 : 18 To the Church in Thyatira“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished bronze:
• 1 Cor 1:9 : 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
• John 10:36 : 36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?
• John 3:16-18 : 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
• John 3:35-36 : 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority. 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
• John 5:25 : 25 I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
• John 7:42 : 42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
• 2 Tim 2:8 : 8 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David; such is my gospel,
• 1 John 1:3 : 3 What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).
• 1 John 3:8 : 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.
• 1 John 3:23 : 23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.
• 1 John 4:2-3 : 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
• Col 1:13-15 : 13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,