Hebrews 12:23

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

and vnto the congregacion of ye fyrst borne sonnes which are writte in heven and to God the iudge of all and to the spretes of iust and parfecte men

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

καὶ ἐκκλησίᾳ πρωτοτόκων, ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἀπογεγραμμένων, καὶ Κριτῇ Θεῷ πάντων, καὶ πνεύμασιν δικαίων τετελειωμένων,

Transliteration

and ekklēsia prōtotokōn, in ouranois apogegrammenōn, and to Kritē Theō of all, and to pneumasin dikaiōn teteleōmenōn,

Grammar Details

• *ekklēsia*: noun, dative, singular, feminine - to assembly/congregation/church
• *prōtotokōn*: noun, genitive, plural, masculine - of firstborn ones
• *ouranois*: noun, dative, plural, masculine - in heavens
• *apogegrammenōn*: participle, perfect passive, genitive, plural, masculine - having been registered/enrolled
• *Kritē*: noun, dative, singular, masculine - to Judge
• *Theō*: noun, dative, singular, masculine - to God
• *pneumasin*: noun, dative, plural, neuter - to spirits
• *dikaiōn*: adjective, genitive, plural, masculine - of righteous ones
• *teteleōmenōn*: participle, perfect passive, genitive, plural, masculine - having been perfected/completed

Word Meanings

• *ekklēsia*: assembly/congregation/church/gathering
• *prōtotokōn*: firstborn ones/those having birthright
• *apogegrammenōn*: having been registered/enrolled/recorded
• *Kritē*: Judge/one who judges
• *dikaiōn*: righteous ones/just ones
• *teteleōmenōn*: having been perfected/completed/brought to maturity

Referenced Verses

• Exod 4:22 : 22 And tell Pharao, thus sayth the Lorde: Israel is mine eldest sonne,
• Luke 10:20 : 20 Neverthelesse in this reioyse not that ye spretes are vnder youre power: but reioyse be cause youre names are wrytten in heaven.
• Gen 18:25 : 25 That be farre from the that thou shuldest do after thys maner to sley the rightwes with the weked ad that the rightwes shulde be as the weked: that befarre from the. Shulde not the iudge of all ye worlde do acordynge to righte?
• Heb 6:10-12 : 10 For god is not vnrighteous that he shuld forget youre worke and laboure that procedeth of love which love shewed in his name which have ministred vnto the saynctes and yet minister 11 Yee and we desyre that every one of you shew the same diligence to the stablysshynge of hope even vnto the ende: 12 that ye faynt not but folowe them which thorow fayth and pacience inheret the promyses.
• Heb 11:40 : 40 God provydinge a better thinge for vs that they with out vs shuld not be made parfecte.
• Eph 1:22 : 22 and hath put all thynges vnder his fete and hath made him aboue all thynges ye heed of ye congregacion
• Eph 5:24-27 : 24 Therfore as the cogregacion is in subieccion to Christ lykwyse let the wyves be in subieccion to their husbandes in all thinges. 25 Husbandes love youre wyves even as Christ loved the congregacion and gave him silfe for it 26 to sanctifie it and clensed it in the fountayne of water thorow the worde 27 to make it vnto him selfe a glorious congregacion with oute spot or wrynckle or eny soche thinge: but that it shuld be holy and with out blame.
• Phil 1:21-23 : 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 3:12-21 : 12 Not as though I had all redy attayned to it Ether were all redy parfect: but I folowe yf yt I maye comprehende that wherin I am comprehended of Christ Iesu. 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. 16 Neverthelesse in that wher vnto we are come let vs procede by one rule yt we maye be of one acorde. 17 Brethren be folowers of and me loke on them which walke even so as ye have vs for an ensample. 18 For many walke (of whom I have tolde you often and now tell you wepynge) that they are ye enemyes of ye crosse of Christ 19 whose ende is dampnacio whose God is their bely and whose glory is to their shame which are worldely mynded. 20 But oure conversacion is in heven from whence we loke for a saveour enen the LORde Iesus Christ 21 which shall chaunge oure vile bodies that they maye be fassioned lyke vnto his glorious body acordinge to the workynge wherby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto hym silfe.
• Phil 4:3 : 3 Yee and I beseche the faythfull yockfelowe helpe the wemen which labored with me in the gospell and with Clement also and with other my labour felowes whose names are in the boke of lyfe.
• Col 1:12 : 12 gevynge thankes vnto the father which hath made vs mete to be part takers of the enheritaunce of sainctes in light.
• 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
• 2 Thess 1:5-7 : 5 which is a token of ye ryghtewes iudgemet of god that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdom of god for which ye also suffre. 6 It is verely a rightewes thinge with God to recopence tribulacion to them that trouble you: 7 and to you which are troubled rest with vs when the LORde Iesus shall shewe him silfe from heven with his myghty angels
• 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.
• John 5:27 : 27 and hath geven him power also to iudge in that he is the sonne of man.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take hede therfore vnto youre selves and to all the flocke wherof the holy goost hath made you oversears to rule the congregacion of God which he hath purchased with his bloud.
• 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 Now we se in a glasse even in a darke speakynge: but then shall we se face to face. Now I knowe vnparfectly: but then shall I knowe even as I am knowen.
• 1 Cor 15:49 : 49 And as we have borne the ymage of the erthy so shall we beare the ymage of the hevenly.
• 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 When this corruptible hath put on incorruptibilite and this mortall hath put on immortalite: then shalbe brought to passe ye sayinge yt is writte. Deeth is consumed in to victory.
• 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.
• Exod 13:2 : 2 sanctifie vnto me all the firstborne that ope all maner matrices amoge the childern of Israel, as well of me as of beestes: for they are myne.
• Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet forgeue them their synne I praye the: Yf not wype me out of thy boke which thou hast written.
• Deut 21:17 : 17 But he shall knowe the sonne off the hated for his firstborne, that he geue hym dowble off all that he hath. For he is the first off his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the firstborneshippe.
• Matt 25:31-34 : 31 When the sonne of ma cometh in his glorie and all the holy angels wt him then shall he syt vpon the seate of his glorie 32 and before him shalbe Gaddred all nacions. And he shall seperate the one from a nother as a shepherde deuideth the shepe from the gootes. 33 And he shall set the shepe on his right honde and the gotes on the lyfte. 34 Then shall the kynge saye to them on his right honde: Come ye blessed chyldren of my father inheret ye the kyngdo prepared for you from the beginninge of the worlde.
• Jas 1:18 : 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 2:23 : 23 which when he was reviled reviled not agayne: whe he suffered he threatened not: but comitted the cause to him that iudgeth ryghteously
• Rev 7:14-17 : 14 And I sayde vnto him: LORde thou wottest. And he sayde vnto me: these are they which cam oute of gret tribulacion and made their garmetes large and made them whyte in the bloud of the lambe: 15 therfore are they in the presence of the seate of God and serve him daye and nyght in hys temple and he that sytteth in the seate wyll dwell amonge them. 16 They shalt honger no more nether thyrst nether shall the sunne lyght on them nether eny heate: 17 For the lambe which ys in the myddes of the seate shall fede them and shall ledde them vnto fountaynes of lyuynge water and god shall wype awaye all teares from their eyes.
• Rev 13:8 : 8 and all that dwell apon the erth worshipt him: whose names are not written in the boke of lyfe of the lambe which was kylled from the begynnynge of the worlde.
• Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they which were not defyled with wemen for they are virgyns. These folowe the lambe whither soever he goeth. These were redemed from men beynge the fyrste frutes vnto God and to the lamb
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And whosoever was not founde written in the boke of lyfe was cast into the lake of fyre.
• Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is apoynted vnto men that they shall once dye and then commeth the iudegement even
• Heb 11:4 : 4 By fayth Abell offered vnto god a more plenteous sacrifice then Cayn: by which he obteyned witnes that he was righteous god testifyinge of his gyftes: by which also he beynge deed yet speaketh.