Romans 12:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Χαίρειν μετὰ χαιρόντων, καὶ κλαίειν μετὰ κλαιόντων.

Transliteration

To chairein with chairontōn, and to klaiein with klaiontōn.

Grammar Details

• *chairein*: present active infinitive - to rejoice
• *chairontōn*: present active participle, genitive, masculine, plural - with rejoicing ones
• *klaiein*: present active infinitive - to weep
• *klaiontōn*: present active participle, genitive, masculine, plural - with weeping ones

Word Meanings

• *chairein*: rejoice/be glad/delight
• *chairontōn*: rejoicing/being glad/delighting
• *klaiein*: weep/cry/lament
• *klaiontōn*: weeping/crying/lamenting

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.
• Heb 13:3 : 3 Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.
• Phil 2:17-18 : 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you. 18 And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.
• Job 30:25 : 25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
• Ps 35:13-14 : 13 When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food.(If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!) 14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.
• Neh 1:4 : 4 When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
• Jer 9:1 : 1 (8:23) I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
• Luke 1:58 : 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.
• 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?
• John 11:33-36 : 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed. 34 He asked,“Where have you laid him?” They replied,“Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 Thus the people who had come to mourn said,“Look how much he loved him!”
• Acts 11:23 : 23 When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,
• 2 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.
• Phil 2:26 : 26 Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.
• Phil 2:28 : 28 Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety.
• Luke 15:5-9 : 5 Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them,‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent. 8 “Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it? 9 Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying,‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
• John 11:19 : 19 so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)
• Job 2:11 : 11 The Visit of Job’s Friends When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country– Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.
• Isa 66:10-14 : 10 Be happy for Jerusalem and rejoice with her, all you who love her! Share in her great joy, all you who have mourned over her! 11 For you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts. 12 For this is what the LORD says:“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river, the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. You will nurse from her breast and be carried at her side; you will play on her knees. 13 As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.” 14 When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The LORD will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.