3 John 1:2

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Beloved I wisshe in all thinges that thou prosperedest and faredest well eve as thy soule prospereth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀγαπητέ, περὶ πάντων εὔχομαί σε εὐοδοῦσθαι καὶ ὑγιαίνειν, καθὼς εὐοδοῦταί σου ἡ ψυχή.

Transliteration

Agapēte, peri all euchomai you to euodousthai and hygiainein, just as euodoutai of you the psychē.

Grammar Details

• *Agapēte*: vocative, masculine, singular - beloved/dear one
• *peri*: preposition + genitive - concerning/about
• *panton*: genitive, neuter, plural - all things
• *euchomai*: present, middle, indicative, 1st person singular - pray/wish
• *se*: accusative, 2nd person singular pronoun - you
• *euodousthai*: present, passive, infinitive - to prosper/succeed well
• *hygiainein*: present, active, infinitive - to be healthy/sound
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/according as
• *euodoutai*: present, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - prospers/succeeds well
• *sou*: genitive, 2nd person singular pronoun - of you/your
• *psychē*: nominative, feminine, singular - soul/life

Word Meanings

• *Agapēte*: beloved/dear one
• *peri panton*: concerning all things/in all respects/above all
• *euchomai*: pray/wish/desire
• *euodousthai*: to prosper/succeed well/have a good journey
• *hygiainein*: to be healthy/sound/whole
• *euodoutai*: prospers/succeeds/fares well
• *psychē*: soul/life/inner self

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 1:3-9 : 3 Accordinge as his godly power hath geven vnto vs all thinges that pertayne vnto lyfe and godlynes thorow the knowledge of him that hath called vs by vertue and glory 4 by the meanes whereof are geven vnto vs excellent and moste greate promises that by the helpe of them ye shuld be partakers of the godly nature in that ye flye the corrupcion of worldy lust. 5 And hervnto geve all diligence: in youre fayth minister vertve and in vertue knowledg 6 and in knowledge temperancy and in temrancy pacience in pacience godlynes 7 in godlynes brotherly kyndnes in brotherly kyndnes love. 8 For yf these thinges be amonge you and are plenteous they wyll make you that ye nether shalbe ydle nor vnfrutefull in the knowledge of oure LORde Iesus Christ. 9 But he yt lacketh these thynges is blynde and gropeth for ye waye with his honde and hath forgotten yt he was pourged from his olde synnes.
• 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 but growe in grace and in the knowledge of oure LORde and saveoure Iesus Christ. To whom he glory bothe now and for ever. Amen.
• Jas 5:12 : 12 But above all thynges my brethre sweare not nether by heven nether by erth nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye and youre maye naye: lest ye faule into ypocrecy.
• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 But above all thinges have fervet love amoge you. For love covereth the multitude of synnes.
• 3 John 1:3-6 : 3 I reioysed greatly when the brethren came and testified of the trueth that is in the how thou walkest in trouthe. 4 I have no greater ioye then for to heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie. 5 Beloved thou doest faythfully what soever thou doest to the brethren and to straungers 6 which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren whe thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemeth god) thou shalt do well:
• Rev 2:9 : 9 I knowe thy workes and tribulacion and poverte but thou art ryche: And I knowe the blaspemy of them whiche call them selves Iewes and are not: but are the congregacio of sathan.
• Col 1:4-6 : 4 sence we hearde of youre faith which ye have in Christ Iesu and of the love which ye beare to all sayntes 5 for the hopes sake which is layde vp in store for you in heven of which hope ye have herde before by ye true worde of the gospe 6 which is come vnto you eve as it is in to all ye worlde and is frutefull as it is amoge you fro the fyrst daye in ye which ye herde of it and had experiece in ye grace of God in the trueth
• 1 Thess 1:3-9 : 3 with out ceasynge and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faythe and labour in love and perseveraunce in the hope of oure LORde Iesus Christ in the sight of God oure father: 4 because we knowe brethren beloved of god how yt ye are electe. 5 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. 6 And ye became folowers of vs and of the lord and receaved the worde in moche affliccion with ioye of the holy gost: 7 so that ye were an ensample to all that beleve in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 For from you sounded out the worde of the LORde not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but youre fayth also which ye have vnto god spred her silfe abroade in all quartars so greatly that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thynge at all. 9 For they the selves shewe of you what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you and how ye tourned to God from ymages for to serve the livynge and true god 10 and for to loke for his sonne from heven whom he raysed from deeth: I mean Iesus which delivereth vs from wrath to come.
• 1 Thess 2:13-14 : 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. 14 For ye brethre became folowers of the congregacions of god which in Iewry are in Christ Iesu: for ye have suffered lyke thynges of youre kynsmen as we oure selves have suffered of the Iewes.
• 1 Thess 3:6-9 : 6 But now lately whe Timotheus came fro you vnto vs and declared to vs youre fayth and youre love and how that ye have good remembraunce of vs all wayes desyringe to se vs as we desyre to se you. 7 Therfore brethre we had consolacion in you in all oure adversite and necessite through youre fayth. 8 For now are we alyve yf ye stonde stedfast in the LORde. 9 For what thankes can we recompence to god agayne for you over all the ioye that we ioye for youre sakes before oure god
• 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bounde to thanke God all wayes for you brethren as it is mete because that youre fayth groweth excedyngly and every one of you swymmeth in love towarde another betwene youre selves
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bounde to geve thankes alwaye to god for you brethren beloved of the LORde for because that God hath from the begynnynge chosen you to saluacion thorow sanctifyinge of the sprete and thorowe belevynge the trueth:
• Phlm 1:5-7 : 5 when I heare of thy love and fayth which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesu and towarde all saynctes: 6 so that the fellisshippe that thou hast in the fayth is frutefull thorow knowledge of all good thinges which are in you by Iesus Christ. 7 And we have great ioye and consolacion over thy love: for by the (brother) the saynctes hertes are comforted.
• Phil 2:4 : 4 and that no man consyder his awne but what is mete for other.
• Phil 2:27 : 27 And no doute he was sicke and that nye vnto deeth. But god had mercy on him: not on him only but on me also lest I shuld have had sorowe apon sorowe.
• 1 Thess 2:19-20 : 19 For what is oure hope or ioye or croune of reioysynge? are not ye it in the presence of oure LORde Iesus Christ at his comynge? 20 yes ye are oure glory and ioye.