1 Thessalonians 1:5

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only but also in power and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure selves amonge you for youre sakes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐγενήθη εἰς ὑμᾶς ἐν λόγῳ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν δυνάμει, καὶ ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίῳ, καὶ ἐν πληροφορίᾳ πολλῇ· καθὼς οἴδατε οἷοι ἐγενήθημεν ἐν ὑμῖν διʼ ὑμᾶς.

Transliteration

Because the euangelion of-us not egenēthē to you in logō monon, but also in dynamei, and in Pneumati Hagiō, and in plērophoria pollē; just-as you-oidate what-kind egenēthēmen among you because-of you.

Grammar Details

• *euangelion*: nominative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
• *egenēthē*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - became/happened
• *logō*: dative, masculine, singular - in word/message/speech
• *monon*: adverb - only/alone/merely
• *dynamei*: dative, feminine, singular - in power/might/strength
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - in Spirit
• *Hagiō*: dative, neuter, singular - in Holy
• *plērophoria*: dative, feminine, singular - in full assurance/conviction
• *pollē*: dative, feminine, singular - in much/great
• *oidate*: perfect, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you know/have known
• *egenēthēmen*: aorist, passive, indicative, 1st person plural - we became/happened

Word Meanings

• *euangelion*: gospel/good news/glad tidings
• *egenēthē*: became/happened/came to be
• *logō*: word/message/speech/account
• *dynamei*: power/might/strength/ability
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *plērophoria*: full assurance/complete conviction/certainty
• *oidate*: know/have known/understand
• *egenēthēmen*: became/happened/came to be

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 whervnto he called you byoure gospell to obtayne ye glorye that cometh of oure lord Iesu Christ.
• Col 2:2 : 2 that their hertes myght be coforted and knet togedder in love and in all ryches of full vnderstondynge for to knowe ye mistery of God ye father and of Christ
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 vnto which Prophetes it was declared that not vnto them selves but vnto vs they shuld minister the thinges which are now shewed vnto you of them which by ye holy goost sent doune fro heven have preached vnto you the thinges which the angels desyre to beholde.
• 1 Thess 2:1-9 : 1 For ye youre selves knowe brethren of oure entraunce in vnto you howe that it was not in vayne: 2 but even after that we had suffered before and were shamfully entreated at Phillippos (as ye well knowe) then were we bolde in oure God to speake vnto you the gospell of God with moche strivynge. 3 Oure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure nor yet to vnclennes nether was it with gyle: 4 but as we were alowed of God that the gospell shuld be comitted vnto vs: even so we speake not as though we entended to please men but God which trieth oure hertes. 5 Nether was oure conversacion at eny tyme wt flatterynge wordes as ye well knowe nether in cloked coveteousnes God is recorde: 6 nether sought we prayse of men nether of you nor yet of eny other when we myght have bene chargeable as the apostles of Christ 7 but we were tender amonge you even as a norsse cheressheth her children 8 so was oure affeccion towarde you oure good will was to have dealte vnto you not the gospell of God only: but also oure awne soules because ye were deare vnto vs. 9 Ye remember brethre oure laboure and travayle. For we laboured daye and nyght because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you and preached vnto you ye gospell of God. 10 Ye are witnesses and so is god how holyly and iustly and vnblameable we behaved oure selves amonge you that beleve: 11 as ye knowe how that we exhorted and comforted and besought every one of you as a father his childre
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause thanke we god with out ceasynge because that when ye receaved of vs the worde wherwith God was preached ye receaved it not as the worde of man: but even as it was in dede the worde of God which worketh in you that beleve.
• Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Erre not my deare brethren. 17 Every good gyfte and every parfayt gyft is from above and commeth doune fro the father of light with whom is no variablenes nether is he chaunged vnto darcknes. 18 Of his awne will begat he vs with the worde of lyfe that we shuld be the fyrst frutes of his creatures.
• 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be God ye father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ which thorow is aboundant mercie begat vs agayne vnto a lively hope by the resurreccion of Iesus Christ fro deeth
• 2 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 Ye youre selves knowe how ye ought to folowe vs. For we behaved not oure selves inordinatly amonge you. 8 Nether toke we breed of eny ma for nought: but wrought with laboure and travayle nyght and daye because we wolde not be grevous to eny of you: 9 not but that we had auctoritie: but to make oure selves an insample vnto you to folowe vs.
• 1 Tim 4:12-16 : 12 Let no man despyse thy youth: but be vnto them that beleve an insample in worde in conversacion in love in sprete in fayth and in purenes. 13 Till I come geve attendaunce to redynge to exhortacion and to doctryne. 14 Despyse not the gyfte that is in ye which was geven the thorow prophesye and with layinge on of ye hondes of an elder. 15 These thynges exercyse and geve thy silfe vnto them that it maye be sene how thou profetest in all thinges. 16 Take hede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge and continue therin. For if thou shalt so do thou shalt save thy silfe and them that heare the.
• 2 Tim 2:8 : 8 Remember that Iesus Christ beynge of he sede of David rose agayne fro deth accordynge to my gospell
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Herefore I suffre all thinges for ye electes sakes that they myght also obtayne that saluacion which is in Christ Iesu with eternall glory.
• Heb 2:3-4 : 3 how shall we escape yf we despyse so great saluacio which at ye fyrst bega to be preached of ye LORde him silfe and afterwarde was cofermed vnto vs warde by the ye hearde it 4 god bearynge witnes therto bothe with sygnes and wonders also and with divers miracles and gyftes of the holy gooste accordynge to his awne will.
• Heb 6:11 : 11 Yee and we desyre that every one of you shew the same diligence to the stablysshynge of hope even vnto the ende:
• Heb 6:18-19 : 18 that by two immutable thinges (in which it was vnpossible that god shuld lye) we myght have parfect consolacion which have fled for to holde fast the hope that is set before vs 19 which hope we have as an ancre of the soule both sure and stedfast. Which hope also entreth in into tho thynges which are with in the vayl
• Mark 16:20 : 20 And they went forth and preached every where. And the Lorde wrought with them and confirmed the worde with miracles that folowed.
• John 16:7-9 : 7 Neverthelesse I tell you the trueth it is expedient for you that I goo awaye. For yf I goo not awaye that comforter will not come vnto you. But yf I departe I will sende him vnto you. 8 And when he is come he will rebuke ye worlde of synne and of rightwesnes and of iudgement. 9 Of synne because they beleve not on me: 10 Of rightwesnes because I go to my father and ye shall se me no moare: 11 and of iudgement because the chefe ruler of this worlde is iudged all ready. 12 I have yet many thinges to saye vnto you: but ye canot beare them awaye now. 13 How be it when he is come (I meane the sprete of truthe) he will leade yon into all trueth. He shall not speake of him selfe: but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speake and he will shewe you thinges to come. 14 He shall glorify me for he shall receave of myne and shall shewe vnto you. 15 All thinges that ye father hath aremyne. Therfore sayd I vnto you that he shall take of myne and shewe vnto you.
• Acts 2:33 : 33 Sence now that he by the right honde of God exalted is and hath receaved of the father the promyse of the holy goost he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.
• Acts 10:44-46 : 44 Whyle Peter yet spake these wordes the holy gost fell on all them which hearde the preachinge. 45 And they of ye circucision which beleved were astonyed as many as came wt Peter because that on the Gentyls also was sheed oute ye gyfte of the holy gost. 46 For they hearde them speake with tonges and magnify God. Then answered Peter:
• Acts 11:15-18 : 15 And as I begane to preach ye holy goost fell on them as he dyd on vs at the begynninge. 16 Then came to my remembrauce ye wordes of the Lorde how he sayde: Iohn baptised with water but ye shalbe baptysed with the holy goost. 17 For as moche then as God gave the lyke gyftes as he dyd vnto vs when we beleved on the Lorde Iesus Christ: what was I that I shuld have with stonde God? 18 when they hearde this they helde their peace and gloryfied God sayinge: then hath God also to the gentyls graunted repentaunce vnto lyfe.
• Acts 11:21 : 21 And the honde of the Lorde was with them and a greate nombre beleved and turned vnto the Lorde.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certayne woman named Lydia a seller of purple of the cite of Thiatira which worshipped God gave vs audience. Whose hert the Lorde opened that she attended vnto the thinges which Paul spake.
• Acts 20:18-19 : 18 And when they were come to him he sayde vnto the: Ye knowe fro the fyrst daye yt I came vnto Asia after what maner I have bene wt you at all ceasons 19 servynge the LORde with all humblenes of mynde and with many teares and temptacions which happened vnto me by the layinges awayte of the Ieues
• Acts 20:33-35 : 33 I have desyred no mas silver golde or vesture. 34 Ye knowe well yt these hondes have ministred vnto my necessities and to them that were wt me. 35 I have shewed you all thinges how that so laborynge ye ought to receave the weake and to remember the wordes of the Lorde Iesu howe that he sayde: It is more blessed to geve then to receave.
• Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ because it is ye power of God vnto salvacio to all yt beleve namely to the Iewe and also to ye getyle.
• Rom 2:16 : 16 at the daye when god shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ accordinge to my Gospell.
• Rom 15:18-19 : 18 For I dare not speake of eny of tho thinges which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the gentyls obedient with worde and dede 19 in myghty signes and wonders by the power of the sprete of God: so that from Ierusalem and the costes rounde aboute vnto Illyricum I have fylled all countres with the gladde tydynges of Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:24 : 24 but vnto the which are called both of Iewes and Grekes we preache Christ ye power of God and the wysdome of God.
• 1 Cor 2:2-5 : 2 Nether shewed I my selfe that I knewe eny thinge amonge you save Iesus Christ eve the same that was crucified. 3 And I was amoge you in weaknes and in feare and in moche treblinge. 4 And my wordes and my preachinge were not with entysynge wordes of manes wysdome: but in shewinge of ye sprete and of power 5 that youre fayth shuld not stonde in ye wysdome of me but in yt power of God.
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I have planted: Apollo watred: but god gave increace.
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Are ye not ware that ye are the temple of god and how that the sprete of god dwelleth in you?
• 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 Me thinketh that God hath set forth vs which are Apostles for the lowest of all as it were me appoynted to deeth. For we are a gasyngestocke vnto the worlde and to ye angels and to men. 10 We are foles for Christes sake and ye are wyse thorow Christ. We are weake and ye are stroge. Ye are honorable and we are despised. 11 Eve vnto this daye we honger and thyrst and are naked and are boffetted wt fistes and have no certayne dwellinge place 12 and laboure workinge with oure awne hondes. We are revysed and yet we blesse. We are persecuted and suffer it. 13 We are evyll spoken of and we praye. We are made as it were the filthynes of the worlde the ofscowringe of all thinges even vnto this tyme.
• 1 Cor 4:20 : 20 for ye kyngdome of God is not in wordes but in power.
• 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For though I be fre from all men yet have I made my silfe servaunt vnto all men that I myght wynne the moo. 20 Vnto the Iewes I became as a Iewe to winne ye Iewes. To the that were vnder the lawe was I made as though I had bene vnder the lawe to wynne the that were vnder the lawe. 21 To them that were without lawe be ca I as though I had bene without lawe (whe I was not without lawe as perteyninge to god but vnder a lawe as concerninge Christ) to wynne the that were without lawe. 22 To the weake became I as weake to wynne the weake. In all thinge I fassioned my silfe to all men to save at ye lest waye some. 23 And this I do for the gospels sake that I might have my parte therof.
• 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 euen as I please all men in all thinges not sekynge myne awne proffet but the proffet of many that they myght be saved. Folowe me as I do Christ.
• 1 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 The gyftes of ye sprete are geven to every man to proffit ye congregacion. 8 To one is geven thorow the spirite the vtteraunce of wisdome? To another is geven the vtteraunce of knowledge by ye same sprete. 9 To another is geuen fayth by ye same sprete. To another ye gyftes of healynge by the same sprete. 10 To another power to do myracles. To another prophesie? To another iudgement of spretes. To another divers tonges. To another the interpretacion of toges. 11 And these all worketh eve ye silfe same sprete devydynge to every man severall gyftes even as he will.
• 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 which hath made vs able to minister the newe testamet not of the letter but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth but the sprete geveth lyfe.
• 2 Cor 4:1-3 : 1 Therfore seinge that we have soche an office eve as mercy is come on vs we faynte not: 2 but have cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie and walke not in craftines nether corrupte we the worde of God: but walke in open trueth and reporte oure selves to every mannes conscience in the sight of God. 3 Yf oure Gospell be yet hyd it is hid amoge them that are lost
• 2 Cor 6:3-9 : 3 Let vs geve no man occasion of evyll that in oure office be founde no faute: 4 but in all thynges let vs behave oure selves as the ministers of God. In moche pacience in afflicios in necessite in anguysshe 5 in strypes in presonmet in stryfe in laboure in watchinge in fastyng 6 in purenes in knowledge in longe sufferynge in kyndnes in the holy goost in love vnfayned 7 in ye wordes of trueth in the power of God by ye armoure of rightewesnes on ye right honde and on the lyfte 8 in honoure and dishonoure in evyll reporte and good reporte as desceauers and yet true 9 as unknowen and yet knowen: as dyinge and beholde we yet live: as chastened and not killed: 10 as sorowynge and yet alwaye mery: as poore and yet make many ryche: as havynge nothynge and yet possessynge all thynges.
• 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 For the weapes of oure warre are not carnall thinges but thynges myghty in god to cast doune stronge holdes 5 wherwith we overthrowe ymaginacyons and every hye thynge that exalteh it silfe agaynst the knowledge of god and brynge into captivite all vnderstondynge to the obedience of Christ
• Gal 1:8-9 : 8 Neverthelesse though we oure selves or an angell fro heve preache eny other gospell vnto you the that which we have preached vnto you holde him as a cursed. 9 As I sayde before so saye I now agayne yf eny man preache eny other thinge vnto you then that ye have receaved holde him accursed. 10 Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men I were not the servaunt of Christ. 11 I certifie you brethren that the gospell which was preached of me was not after the maner of men 12 nether receaved I it of ma nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ.
• Gal 2:2 : 2 Ye and I went vp by revelacion and comened with them of the Gospell which I preache amonge the gentyls: but apart with them which were couted chefe lest it shuld have bene thought yt I shuld runne or had runne in vayne.
• Gal 3:2-5 : 2 This only wolde I learne of you: receaved ye the sprete by the dedes of ye lawe or els by preachinge of ye faith? 3 Are ye so vnwyse that after ye have begonne in the sprete ye wolde nowe ende in the flesshe? 4 So many thinges there ye have suffred in vayne if yt be vayne. 5 Which ministered to you the sprete and worketh myracles amonge you doth he it thorow the dedes of the lawe or by preachinge of the fayth?
• Gal 5:5 : 5 We loke for and hope in the sprite to be iustified thorow fayth.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But ye frute of sprete is loue ioye peace longesufferinge getlenes goodnes faythfulnes 23 meknes temperancye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe.
• Eph 1:17-20 : 17 that ye God of oure LORde Iesus Christ and the father of glory myght geve vnto you the sprete of wisdome and open to you the knowledge of him silfe 18 and lighten the eyes of youre myndes yt ye myght knowe what that hope is where vnto he hath called you and what the riches of his glorious inheritaunce is apon the sainctes 19 and what is the excedynge greatnes of his power to vs warde which beleve accordynge to the workynge of that his mighty power 20 which he wrought in Christ when he raysed him from deeth and set him on his right honde in hevenly thynges
• Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God which is rich in mercy thorow his greate love wherwith he loved vs 5 even when we were deed by synne hath quickened vs together in Christ (for by grace are ye saved)
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his worckmanshippe created in Christ Iesu vnto good workes vnto the which god ordeyned vs before that we shuld walke in them.
• Eph 3:20 : 20 Vnto him that is able to do excedynge aboudantly above all that we axe or thynke accordynge to the power that worketh in vs
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is god which worketh in you both ye will and also yt dede eve of good will
• Phil 4:9 : 9 those same have ye in youre mynde which ye have both learned and receaved herde and also sene in me: those thynges do and the god of peace shalbe with you.
• Heb 10:22 : 22 let vs drawe nye with a true herte in a full fayth sprynckeled in oure hertes from an evyll conscience and wesshed in oure bodies with pure water
• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 not of ye dedes of rightewesnes which we wrought but of his mercie he saved vs by ye foutayne of the newe birth and with the renuynge of the holy goos 6 which he shed on vs aboundantly thorow Iesus Christ oure saveoure
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 not as though ye were LORdes over the parisshes: but that ye be a insample to the flocke.
• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherfore brethren geve the moare diligence forto make youre callynge and eleccion sure. For yf ye do soche thynges ye shall never erre.
• 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 We have also a right sure worde of prophesye wher vnto yf ye take hede as vnto a lyght yt shyneth in a darke place ye do wel vntill the daye dawne and the daye starre aryse in youre hertes.