Acts 20:24

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

But none of tho thinges move me: nether is my lyfe dere vnto my selfe that I myght fulfill my course wt ioye and the ministracio which I have receaved of ye Lorde Iesu to testify the gospell of ye grace of god.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ οὐδενὸς λόγον ποιοῦμαι, οὐδὲ ἔχω τὴν ψυχήν μου τιμίαν ἐμαυτῷ, ὡς τελειῶσαι τὸν δρόμον μου μετὰ χαρᾶς, καὶ τὴν διακονίαν, ἣν ἔλαβον παρὰ τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ, διαμαρτύρασθαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

But of-nothing logon poioumai, nor echō the psychēn of-me timian to-myself, so-as teleiōsai the dromon of-me with charas, and the diakonian, which elabon from the Kyriou Iēsou, diamartyrasthai the euangelion of-the charitos of-the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - account/reckoning
• *poioumai*: present indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I make/consider
• *echō*: present indicative, active, 1st person singular - I hold/have
• *psychēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life/soul
• *timian*: accusative, feminine, singular - precious/valuable
• *teleiōsai*: aorist infinitive, active - to complete
• *dromon*: accusative, masculine, singular - course/race
• *charas*: genitive, feminine, singular - of joy
• *diakonian*: accusative, feminine, singular - ministry/service
• *elabon*: aorist indicative, active, 1st person singular - I received
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Lord
• *Iēsou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus
• *diamartyrasthai*: aorist infinitive, middle - to testify solemnly
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
• *charitos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of grace
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *logon*: account/reckoning/esteem
• *poioumai*: I make/consider/regard
• *psychēn*: life/soul
• *timian*: precious/valuable/dear
• *teleiōsai*: to complete/finish/accomplish
• *dromon*: course/race/career
• *charas*: joy/gladness
• *diakonian*: ministry/service/office
• *elabon*: I received/got/took
• *diamartyrasthai*: to testify solemnly/witness earnestly
• *euangelion*: gospel/good news
• *charitos*: grace/favor
• *Theou*: God/deity

Referenced Verses

• Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered and sayde: what do ye wepynge and breakinge myne hert? I am redy not to be bound only but also to dye at Ierusalem for ye name of ye Lorde Iesu.
• Acts 1:17 : 17 For he was noubred with vs and had obtayned fellouship in this ministracion.
• Acts 20:21 : 21 witnessinge bothe to the Iewes and also to the Grekes the repentaunce toward God and faith towarde oure Lorde Iesu.
• Gal 1:1 : 1 ¶ Paul an Apostle not of men nether by man but by Iesus Christ and by God the father which raysed him from deeth:
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therfore seinge that we have soche an office eve as mercy is come on vs we faynte not:
• Titus 1:3 : 3 but hath opened his worde at ye tyme apoynted thorow preachynge which preachynge is committed vnto me by the commaundement of god oure saveoure.
• Acts 20:32 : 32 And now brethren I comende you to God and to the worde of his grace which is able to bylde further and to geve you an inheritaunce amoge all them which are sanctified.
• Acts 9:15 : 15 The LORde sayde vnto him: Goo thy wayes: for he is a chosen vessell vnto me to beare my name before the gentyls and kynges and the chyldren of Israel.
• Acts 11:23 : 23 Which when he was come and had sene the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of hert they wolde continually cleave vnto ye Lorde.
• Acts 14:3 : 3 Longe tyme a bode they there and quyt them selves boldly with the helpe of the Lorde the which gave testimony vnto ye worde of his grace and caused signes and wondres to be done by their hondes.
• Acts 22:21 : 21 And he sayde vnto me: departe for I will sende the a farre hence vnto the Gentyls.
• Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delyverynge the from the people and from ye gentyls vnto which nowe I sende the 18 to open their eyes that they myght turne from darcknes vnto lyght and from the power of Satan vnto God that they maye receave forgevenes of synnes and inheritauce amonge the which are sanctified by fayth in me.
• Rom 3:24-26 : 24 but are iustified frely by his grace through the redemcion that is in Christ Iesu 25 whom God hath made a seate of mercy thorow faith in his bloud to shewe ye rightewesnes which before him is of valoure in yt he forgeveth ye synnes yt are passed which God dyd suffre 26 to shewe at this tyme ye rightewesnes yt is alowed of him yt he myght be couted iuste and a iustifiar of him which belevith on Iesus.
• 2 Tim 4:6-8 : 6 For I am now redy to be offered and the tyme of my departynge is at honde. 7 I have fought a good fight and have fulfilled my course and have kept the fayth. 8 From hence forth is layde vp for me a croune of rightewesnes which the LORde that is a righteous iudge shall geve me at that daye: not to me only but vnto all them that love his commynge.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 By Silvanus a faythfull brother vnto you (as I suppose) have I written brefly exhortynge and testifyinge how that this is the true grace of god wherin ye stonde.
• 1 John 3:16 : 16 Herby perceave we love: that he gave his lyfe for vs: and therfore ought we also to geve oure lyves for the brethre.
• Rev 12:11 : 11 And they overcame him by the bloude of the lambe and by the worde of their testimony and they loved not their lyves vnto the deeth.
• 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 notwithstondinge the Lorde assisted me and stregthed me that by me the preachinge shuld be fulfilled to the vtmost and that all the gentyls shuld heare. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lyon.
• Rom 4:4 : 4 To him that worketh is the rewarde not reckened of favour: but of duty.
• Rom 5:20-21 : 20 But ye lawe in the meane tyme entred in yt synne shuld encreace. Neverthelater where aboundaunce of synne was there was more plenteousnes of grace. 21 That as synne had raigned vnto deeth even so might grace raygne thorow rightewesnes vnto eternall lyfe by the helpe of Iesu Christ.
• Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall seperate vs fro the love of god? shall tribulacion? or anguysshe? or persecucion? other honger? other nakednesse? other parell? other swearde? 36 As it is written: For thy sake are we kylled all daye longe and are counted as shepe apoynted to be slayne. 37 Neverthelesse in all these thinges we overcome strongly thorow his helpe that loved vs. 38 Ye and I am sure that nether deeth nether lyfe nether angels nor rule nether power nether thinges present nether thinges to come 39 nether heyth nether loweth nether eny other creature shalbe able to departe vs fro ye love of God shewed in Christ Iesu oure LORde.
• Rom 11:6 : 6 Yf it be of grace the is it not of workes. For then were grace no moare grace. Yf it be of workes then is it no moare grace. For then were deservyng no lenger deservynge.
• 1 Cor 9:17-18 : 17 If I do it with a good will I have a rewarde. But yf I do it agaynst my will an office is committed vnto me. 18 What is my rewarde then? Verely that whe I preache the gospell I make the gospell of Christ fre yt I misvse not myne auctorite in ye gospel
• 1 Cor 9:24-27 : 24 Perceave ye not how that they which runne in a course runne all yet but one receaveth the rewarde. So runne that ye maye obtayne. 25 Euery man yt proveth masteryes abstaineth from all thinges. And they do it to obtayne a corruptible croune: but we to obtayne an vncorruptible croune: 26 I therfore so runne not as at an vncertayne thinge. So fyght I not as one yt beateth the ayer: 27 but I tame my body and bringe it into subieccio lest after that I have preached to other I my silfe shuld be a castawaye.
• 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therfore my deare brethren be ye stedfast and unmovable alwayes ryche in the workes of the Lorde for as moch as ye knowe how yt youre labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.
• Luke 2:10-11 : 10 But the angell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. For beholde I bringe you tydinges of greate ioye yt shal come to all ye people: 11 for vnto you is borne this daye in the cite of David a saveoure which is Christ ye LORde.
• John 15:27 : 27 And ye shall beare witnes also because ye have bene with me from the begynninge.
• John 17:4 : 4 I have glorified ye on the erth. I have fynysshed ye worke which thou gavest me to do.
• Titus 2:11 : 11 For the grace of god that bryngeth saluacion vnto all men hath appered
• Titus 3:4-7 : 4 But after that the kyndnes and love of oure saveoure God to mawarde appered 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 7 that we once iustified by his grace shuld be heyres of eternall lyfe thorowe hope
• 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 10:34 : 34 For ye suffered also with my bondes and toke a worth the spoylynge of youre goodes and that with gladnes knowynge in youre selves how that ye had in heven a better and an endurynge substaunc
• Heb 12:1-3 : 1 Wherfore let vs also (seynge that we are copased with so great a multitude of witnesses) laye awaye all that presseth doune and the synne that hageth on and let vs rune with paciece vnto the battayle yt is set before vs 2 lokynge vnto Iesus the auctor and fynnyssher of oure fayth which for the ioye that was set before him abode the crosse and despysed the shame and is set doune on the right honde of ye trone of God. 3 Consider therfore how that he endured suche speakinge agaynst him of synners lest ye shuld be weried and faynte in youre myndes.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are troubled on every side yet are we not with out shyft. We are in povertie: but not vtterly without somwhat. 9 We are persecuted: but are not forsake. We are cast doune: neverthelesse we perisshe not.
• 2 Cor 4:16-18 : 16 Wherfore we are not weried but though oure vttward man perisshe yet the inwarde man is renewed daye by daye. 17 For oure excedinge tribulacion which is momentany and light prepareth an excedinge and an eternall wayght of glorye 18 vnto vs whill we loke not on the thynges which are sene but on ye thynges which are not sene. For thinges which are sene are temporall: but thynges which are not sene are eternall
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neverthelesse we are of good comforte and had lever to be absent from the body and to be present with the LORde.
• 2 Cor 6:4-9 : 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 7:4 : 4 I am very bolde over you and reioyce greatly in you. I am filled with comforte and am excadinge ioyouse in all oure tribulacions.
• 2 Cor 12:10 : 10 Therfore have I delectacion in infirmities in rebukes in nede in persecucions in anguyshe for Christis sake. For when I am weake then am I stronge.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 to ye prayse of the glorie of his grace where with he hath made vs accepted in the beloved.
• Eph 2:4-9 : 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) 6 and hath raysed vs vp together and made vs sitte together in hevenly thynges thorow Christ Iesus 7 for to shewe in tymes to come the excedynge ryches of his grace in kyndnes to vs warde in Christ Iesu. 8 For by grace are ye made safe thorowe fayth and that not of youre selves. For it is the gyfte of God 9 and commeth not of workes lest eny man shuld bost him silfe. 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 3:13 : 13 Wherfore I desire yt ye faynt not because of my trybulacios for youre sakes: which is youre prayse.
• Phil 1:20-23 : 20 as I hertely loke for and hope that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but that with all confidence as all wayes in tymes past even so now Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorowe lyfe or els deeth. 21 For Christ is to me lyfe and deeth is to me a vauntage. 22 Yf it chaunce me to live in the flesshe that is to me frutefull forto worke and what to chose I wote not. 23 I am constrayned of two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed and to be with Christ which thinge is best of all.
• Phil 2:17 : 17 Yee and though I be offered vp vpon the offerynge and sacrifice of youre fayth: I reioyce and reioyce with you all.
• Phil 3:13-15 : 13 Brethren I counte not my silfe that I have gotten it: but one thynge I saye: I forget yt which is behynde and stretche my silfe vnto that which is before 14 and preace vnto ye marke apoynted to obtayne the rewarde of the hye callynge of god in Christ Iesu. 15 Let vs therfore as many as be perfect be thus wyse minded: and yf ye be other wyse mynded I praye God open even this vnto you.
• Col 1:24 : 24 Now ioye I in my soferinges which I suffre for you and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesshe for his bodies sake which is the congregacion
• 1 Thess 2:2 : 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.
• 1 Thess 3:3 : 3 yt no ma shulde be moved in these affliccios. For ye youre selves knowe that we are even apoynted therevnto.
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 for the which cause I also suffre these thinges. Neverthelesse I am not a shamed For I knowe who I have beleved and am sure that he is able to kepe that which I have comitted to his kepynge agaynst that daye.
• 2 Tim 3:11 : 11 persecucions and affliccions which happened vnto me at Antioche at Iconium and at lystra: which persecucions I suffered paciently. And from them all the LORde delivered me.