Ephesians 4:14

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

That we hence forth be no moare chyldren wauerynge and caryed with every wynde of doctryne by the wylynes of men and craftynes wherby they laye a wayte for vs to deceave vs.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἵνα μηκέτι ὦμεν νήπιοι, κλυδωνιζόμενοι, καὶ περιφερόμενοι παντὶ ἀνέμῳ τῆς διδασκαλίας, ἐν τῇ κυβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐν πανουργίᾳ, πρὸς τὴν μεθοδείαν τῆς πλάνης·

Transliteration

Hina no longer we ōmen nēpioi, being klydōnizomenoi, and being peripheromenoi by every anemō of the didaskalias, in the kybeia of the anthrōpōn, in panourgia, pros the methodeian of the planēs;

Grammar Details

• *Hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *ōmen*: present active subjunctive, 1st plural - we might be
• *nēpioi*: nominative masculine plural - infants/children
• *klydōnizomenoi*: present passive participle, nominative masculine plural - being tossed by waves
• *peripheromenoi*: present passive participle, nominative masculine plural - being carried about
• *anemō*: dative masculine singular - by wind
• *didaskalias*: genitive feminine singular - of teaching/instruction
• *kybeia*: dative feminine singular - by trickery/sleight
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive masculine plural - of men/people
• *panourgia*: dative feminine singular - in craftiness/cunning
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - toward/with a view to
• *methodeian*: accusative feminine singular - scheming/method
• *planēs*: genitive feminine singular - of error/deception

Word Meanings

• *ōmen*: might be/should be
• *nēpioi*: infants/children/immature ones
• *klydōnizomenoi*: being tossed by waves/being agitated
• *peripheromenoi*: being carried about/tossed to and fro
• *anemō*: wind/breath
• *didaskalias*: teaching/instruction/doctrine
• *kybeia*: trickery/sleight/dice-playing
• *anthrōpōn*: men/people/human beings
• *panourgia*: craftiness/cunning/trickery
• *methodeian*: scheming/cunning arts/method
• *planēs*: error/deception/wandering

Referenced Verses

• Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not caryed aboute with divers and straunge learnynge. For it is a good thynge that the herte be stablisshed with grace and not with meates which have not proffeted them that have had their pastyme in them.
• Jas 1:6 : 6 But let him axe in fayth and waver not. For he that douteth is lyke the waves of the see tost of the wynde and caried with violence.
• 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethre be not chyldre in witte. How be it as cocerninge maliciousnes be chyldre: but in witte be perfet.
• 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as many are which choppe and chaunge with the worde of God: but even oute of purenes and by the power of God and in the sight of God so speake we in Christ.
• Rom 16:17-18 : 17 I beseche you brethre marke them which cause division and geve occasions of evyll contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned: and avoyde them. 18 For they yt are suche serve not ye Lorde Iesus Christ: but their awne bellyes and with swete preachinges and flatteringe wordes deceave the hertes of the innocetes.
• 2 Cor 4:2 : 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.
• Eph 6:11 : 11 Put on ye armour of God that ye maye stonde stedfast agaynst ye crafty assautes of the devyll.
• Col 2:4-8 : 4 This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes. 5 For though I be absent in the flesshe yet am I present with you in the sprete ioyinge and beholdinge the order that ye kepe and youre stedfast fayth in Christ. 6 As ye have therfore receaved Christ Iesu the Lorde even so walke 7 roted and bylt in him and stedfaste in the fayth as ye have learned: and therin be plenteous in gevynge thankes. 8 Beware lest eny ma come and spoyle you thorow philosophy and disceatfull vanitie thorow the tradicions of me and ordinaunces after the worlde and not after christ.
• Heb 5:12-14 : 12 For when as cocerninge ye tyme ye ought to be teachers yet have ye nede agayne that we teache you the fyrst principles of the worde of god: and are become soche as have nede of mylke and not of stronge meate: 13 For every man that is feed with mylke is inexperte in the worde of rightewesnes. For he is but a babe. 14 But stronge meate belongeth to them that are parfecte which thorow custome have their wittes exercised to iudge both good and evyll also.
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Ye beloved beleve not every sprete: but prove the spretes whether they are of God or no: for many falce Prophetes are gone out into the worlde.
• Jude 1:12 : 12 These are spottes which of youre kindnes feast to gedder with out feare fedynge them selves. Cloudes they are with outen water caried about of wyndes and trees with out frute at gadringe tyme twyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes.
• 1 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 Yf thou shalt put the brethren in remembraunce of these thynges thou shalt be a good minister of Iesu Christ which hast bene norisshed vp in the wordes of the fayth and good doctryne which doctryne thou hast continually followed. 7 But cast awaye vngostly and olde wyves fables. Exercyse thy silfe vnto godlines.
• 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 Ther were falce prophetes amonge the people even as ther shalbe falce teachers amonge you: wich prevely shall brynge in damnable sectes even denyinge the Lorde that hath bought them and brynge vpon them selves swyft damnacion 2 and many shall folowe their damnable wayes by which the waye of trueth shalbe evyll spoken of 3 and thorow coveteousnes shall they with fayned wordes make marchandyse of you whose iudgement is not farre of and their dampnacion slepeth not.
• Matt 11:7 : 7 And as they departed Iesus begane to speake vnto the people of Ihon. What for to se wet ye out in to the wyldernes? wet ye out to se a rede shake with ye wynde?
• Matt 24:11 : 11 And many falce Prophetes shall aryse and shall deceave many.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall arise false christes and false prophete and shall do great myracles and wondres. In so moche yt if it were possible ye verie electe shuld be deceaved.
• Acts 20:30-31 : 30 Moreover of youre awne selves shall men aryse speakinge perverse thinges to drawe disciples after the. 31 Therfore awake and remember that by the space of.iii. yeares I ceased not to warne every one of you both nyght and daye with teares.
• Acts 23:21 : 21 But folowe not their mindes: for ther lyein wayte for him of the moo then.xl. men which have boude the selves wt a vowe that they will nether eate ner drinke till they have killed him. And now are they redy and loke for thy promes.
• Matt 18:3-4 : 3 and sayd. Verely I say vnto you: except ye tourne and become as chyldren ye cannot enter into the kyngdom of heven. 4 Whosoever therfore humble him sylfe as this chylde the same is the greatest in ye kyngdome of heve.
• 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I coulde not speake vnto you brethre as vnto spretuall: but as vnto carnall even as it were vnto babes in Christ. 2 I gave you mylke to drinke and not meate. For ye then were not stronge no nether yet are.
• 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 Ye knowe that ye were gentyls and went youre wayes vnto domme ydoles even as ye were ledde.
• 2 Thess 2:2-5 : 2 that ye be not sodely moved from youre mynde and be not troubled nether by sprete nether by wordes nor yet by letter which shuld seme to come from vs as though the daye of Christ were at honde. 3 Let no ma deceave you by eny meanes for the LORde commeth not excepte ther come a departynge fyrst and that that synfnll man be opened ye sonne of perdicion 4 which is an adversarie and is exalted above all that is called god or that is worshipped: so that he shall sitt as God in temple of god and shew him silfe as god. 5 Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I tolde you these thynges?
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even him whose commynge is by the workynge of Satan wyth all lyinge power signes and wonders: 10 and in all deceavablenes of vnrightewesnes amonge them that perysshe: because they receaved not the (love) of the truth that they myght have bene saved.
• 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll
• 2 Cor 11:3-4 : 3 But I feare lest as the serpent begyled Eve thorow his sutteltie even so youre wittes shuld be corrupte from the singlenes that is in Christ. 4 For if he that commeth preache another Iesus then hym whom we preached: or if ye receave another sprete then that which ye have receaved: other another gospell then that ye have receaved ye myght right wel have bene content.
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For these falce apostles are disceatefull workers and fassion them selves lyke vnto ye apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvayle for satan him silfe is chaunged into the fassion of an angell of light. 15 Therfore it is no great thynge though his ministers fassion them selves as though they were the ministers of rightewesnes: whose ende shalbe acordynge to their dedes.
• Gal 1:6-7 : 6 I marvayle that ye are so sone turned fro him that called you in the grace of Christ vnto another gospell: 7 which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ.
• Gal 3:1 : 1 O folisshe Galathyas: who hath bewitched you that ye shuld not beleve the trueth? To whom Iesus Christ was described before the eyes and amoge you crucified.
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they have spoke the swellinge wordes of vanytie they begyle wt wantanes thorowe yt lustes of the flesshe them that were clene escaped: but now are wrapped in errours.
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went oute from vs but they were not of vs. For yf they had bene of vs they wolde no dout have continued with vs. But that fortuned that yt myght appere that they were not of vs.
• 1 John 2:26 : 26 This have I writte vnto you concernynge the yt disceave you.
• 2 Tim 1:15 : 15 This thou knowest how that all they which are in Asia be turned from me. Of which sorte are Phigelos and hermogenes.
• 2 Tim 2:17-18 : 17 and their wordes shall fret even as doeth a cancre: of whose nombre ys Hymeneos and Philetos 18 which as concernynge the trueth have erred sayinge that the resurreccion is past all redy and do destroye the fayth of divers persones.
• 2 Tim 3:6-9 : 6 Of this sorte are they which entre in to houses and brynge into bondage wymmen laden with synne which wemen are ledde of divers lustes 7 ever learnynge and never able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth. 8 As Iannes and Iambres withstode Moses even so do these resist the trueth men they are of corrupt myndes and leawde as concernynge the fayth: 9 but they shall prevayle no leger. For their madnes shalbe vttered vnto all men as theirs was.
• 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But the evyll men and disceavers shall wexe worsse and worsse whill they deceave and are deceaved them selves.
• 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the tyme will come when they wyll not suffer wholsome doctryne: but after their awne lustes shall they (whose eares ytche) gett the an heepe of teachers
• Rev 13:11-14 : 11 And I behelde another best commynge vp oute of the erth and he had two hornes like a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragon. 12 And he dyd all that the fyrste beest coulde do in his presence and he caused the erth and them which dwell therin to worshippe the fyrst beest whose dedly woude was healed. 13 And he dyd grett wonders so that he made fyre come doune from heven in the syght of men. 14 And deceaved them that dwelt on the erth by the meanes of those signes which he had power to doo in the sight of the beest sayinge to the that dwelt on the erth: that they shuld make an ymage vnto the beest which had the woude of a swearde and dyd lyve.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beste was take and with him that falce prophett that wrought myracles before him with which he desceaved the that receaved ye beestes marke and them that worshipped his ymage. These both were cast into a pode of fyre burnyge with brymstone:
• Jas 3:4 : 4 Beholde also the shyppes which though they be so gret and are dryven of fearce windes yet are they turned about with a very smale helme whither soever the violence of the governer wyll.