John 6:27

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Laboure not for ye meate which perissheth but for ye meate that endureth vnto everlastynge lyfe whiche meate ye sonne of ma shall geve vnto you. For him hath god ye father sealed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐργάζεσθε μὴ τὴν βρῶσιν τὴν ἀπολλυμένην, ἀλλὰ τὴν βρῶσιν τὴν μένουσαν εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, ἣν ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὑμῖν δώσει: τοῦτον γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ ἐσφράγισεν ὁ Θεός.

Transliteration

Ergazesthe not for the brōsin the apollymenēn, but for the brōsin the menousan into zōēn aiōnion, which the Hyios of the anthrōpou to you dōsei: this one gar the Patēr esphragisen the Theos.

Grammar Details

• *Ergazesthe*: present, imperative, middle, 2nd plural - work/labor
• *brōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - food
• *apollymenēn*: present, participle, middle, accusative, feminine, singular - perishing
• *menousan*: present, participle, active, accusative, feminine, singular - remaining/enduring
• *zōēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life
• *aiōnion*: accusative, feminine, singular - eternal/everlasting
• *Hyios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: genitive, masculine, singular - man/mankind
• *dōsei*: future, indicative, active, 3rd singular - will give
• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/because
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *esphragisen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd singular - sealed/certified
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God

Word Meanings

• *Ergazesthe*: work/labor/strive
• *brōsin*: food/nourishment/meat
• *apollymenēn*: perishing/decaying/being destroyed
• *menousan*: remaining/enduring/lasting
• *zōēn*: life/existence
• *aiōnion*: eternal/everlasting/age-lasting
• *Hyios*: Son
• *anthrōpou*: man/mankind/humanity
• *Patēr*: Father
• *esphragisen*: sealed/certified/authorized
• *Theos*: God/deity

Referenced Verses

• John 6:54 : 54 Whosoever eateth my flesshe and drinketh my bloude hath eternall lyfe: and I will rayse him vp at the last daye.
• Rom 6:23 : 23 For the rewarde of synne is deeth: but eternall lyfe is the gyfte of God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde.
• John 6:58 : 58 This is the breed which cam from heave: not as youre fathers have eaten Manna and are deed. He that eateth of this breed shall live ever.
• John 5:36-37 : 36 But I have greater witnes then the witnes of Iohn. For ye workes which ye father hath geve me to fynisshe: the same workes which I do beare witnes of me that ye father sent me. 37 And the father him silfe which hath sent me beareth witnes of me. Ye have not hearde his voyce at eny tyme nor ye have sene his shape:
• John 6:40 : 40 And this is the wyll of him yt sent me: yt every man which seith ye sonne and beleveth on him have everlastinge lyfe. And I will rayse him vp at ye last daye.
• John 6:51 : 51 I am that lyvinge breed which came doune from heave. Yf eny man eate of this breed he shall live forever. And the breed that I will geve is my flesshe which I will geve for the lyfe of ye worlde
• John 10:28 : 28 and I geve vnto the eternall lyfe and they shall never perisshe nether shall eny man plucke the oute of my honde.
• John 17:2 : 2 as thou hast geve him power over all fleshe that he shuld geve eternall lyfe to as many as thou hast geven him.
• Acts 10:38 : 38 how God had annoynted Iesus of Nazareth with the holy goost and with power which Iesus went aboute doinge good and healynge all yt were oppressed of the develles for God was with him.
• Rom 4:11 : 11 And he receaved the signe of circumcision as a seale of yt rightewesnes which is by fayth which fayth he had yet beynge vncircucised: that he shuld be the father of all them that beleve though they be not circumcised that rightewesnes myght be imputed to them also:
• Acts 2:22 : 22 Ye men of Israel heare these wordes. Iesus of Nazareth a ma approved of God amoge you with myracles wondres and signes which God dyd by him in ye myddes of you as ye youre selves knowe:
• John 10:37-38 : 37 If I do not the workes of my father beleve me not. 38 But if I do though ye beleve not me yet beleve the workes that ye maye knowe and beleve that the father is in me and I in him.
• John 11:25-26 : 25 Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the resurreccion and the lyfe: He that beleveth on me ye though he were deed yet shall he lyve. 26 And whosoever lyveth and belevest on me shall never dye. Beleveth thou this?
• John 11:42 : 42 I wot that thou hearest me all wayes: but because of the people that stonde by I sayde it yt they maye beleve that thou hast sent me.
• John 14:6 : 6 Iesus sayd vnto him: I am ye waye ye truthe and ye life. And no man cometh vnto the father but by me.
• John 15:24 : 24 If I had not done workes amoge the which none other ma dyd they had not had synne. But now have they sene and yet have hated bothe me and my father:
• John 6:28-29 : 28 Then sayd they vnto him: what shall we do that we myght worke ye workes of God? 29 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them. This is ye worke of God that ye beleve on him who he hath sent.
• John 6:68 : 68 Then Simon Peter answered: Master to whom shall we goo? Thou haste the wordes of eternall lyfe
• John 8:18 : 18 I am one yt beare witnes of my selfe and the father that sent me beareth witnes of me.
• Matt 3:17 : 17 And lo there came a voyce from heven sayng: Thys ys that my beloved sonne in whom is my delyte.
• Matt 6:19 : 19 Se that ye gaddre you not treasure vpon ye erth where rust and mothes corrupte and where theves breake through and steale.
• Matt 6:31-33 : 31 Therfore take no thought sayinge: what shall we eate or what shall we drincke or wherwt shall we be clothed? 32 After all these thynges seke the getyls. For youre hevely father knoweth that ye have neade of all these thynges. 33 But rather seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of heuen and the rightwisnes therof and all these thynges shalbe ministred vnto you.
• Matt 8:20 : 20 And Iesus sayd vnto him: the foxes have holes and the bryddes of the ayer have nestes but ye sonne of the man hath not whero to rest his heede.
• Matt 17:5 : 5 Whyll he yet spake beholde a bright cloude shadowed them. And beholde there came a voyce out of ye cloude sayinge: this is my deare sonne in whom I delite heare him.
• Mark 1:11 : 11 And ther came a voyce from heaven: Thou arte my dere sonne in whom I delyte.
• Mark 9:7 : 7 And ther was a cloude that shaddowed the. And a voyce came out of the cloude sayinge: This is my dere sonne here him.
• Luke 3:22 : 22 and the holy goost came doune in a bodely shape lyke a dove vpo him and a voyce came fro heve sayinge: Thou arte my dere sonne in the do I delyte.
• Luke 4:18-21 : 18 The sprete of the LORde vpon me because he hath annoynted me: to preache ye gospell to ye poore he hath sent me: and to heale the broken harted: to preache delyverauce to the captive and sight to the blinde and frely to set at lyberte them that are brused 19 and to preache the acceptable yeare of the Lorde. 20 And he cloosed the booke and gave it agayne to the minister and sate doune. And the eyes of all that were in the synagoge were fastened on him. 21 And he began to saye vnto them. This daye is this scripture fulfilled in youre eares.
• Luke 9:35 : 35 And ther came a voyce out of the cloude sayinge: This is my deare sonne heare him.
• Luke 10:40-42 : 40 And Martha was combred about moche servinge and stode and sayde: Master doest thou not care that my sister hath leeft me to minister alone? Byd her therfore that she helpe me. 41 And Iesus answered and sayde vnto her: Martha Martha thou carest and arte troubled about many thinges: 42 verely one is nedfull. Mary hath chosen her that good parte which shall not be taken awaye from her.
• John 1:33-34 : 33 and I knewe him not. But he that sent me to baptise in water the same sayde vnto me: apon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him the same is he which baptiseth with the holy goost. 34 And I sawe and bare recorde that this is the sonne of God.
• John 3:33 : 33 How be it he that hath receaved hys testimonye hath set to his seale that God is true.
• John 4:13-14 : 13 Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: whosoever drinketh of this water shall thurst agayne. 14 But whosoever shall drinke of ye water yt I shall geve him shall never be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geve him shalbe in him a well of water springinge vp in to everlastinge lyfe.
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Meates are ordeyned for the belly and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy bothe it and them. Let not the body be applied vnto fornicacion but vnto the Lorde and the Lorde vnto the body.
• 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 This saye I brethre the tyme is shorte. It remayneth that they which have wives be as though they had none 30 and they that wepe be as though thy wept not: and they that reioyce be as though they reioysed not: and they that bye be as though they possessed not: 31 and they yt vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not. For the fassion of this worlde goeth awaye.
• 1 Cor 9:2 : 2 Are not ye my worke in the LORde. Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other yet am I vnto you. For the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the LORde.
• 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.
• 2 Cor 4:18 : 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
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Iesu Christ nether is circumcision enythinge worth nether yet vncircocision but faith which by love is mighty in operacion.
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is god which worketh in you both ye will and also yt dede eve of good will
• Col 1:29 : 29 Wherin I also laboure and stryve even as farforth as hys workynge worketh in me myghtely.
• Col 2:22 : 22 which all perysshe wt the vsinge of the and are after the comaundmentes and doctrins of men
• Col 3:2 : 2 Set youre affeccion on thynges yt are above and not on thinges which are on ye erth.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 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:
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But the sure grounde of god remayneth and hath this seale: the LORde knoweth them that are his and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ departe from iniquite.
• Heb 4:11 : 11 Let vs study therfore to entre into that rest lest eny man faule after the same ensample in to vnbelefe.
• Heb 12:16 : 16 and that there be no fornicator or vnclene person as Esau which for one breakfast solde his birthright.
• Jas 1:11 : 11 The sonne ryseth with heate and the grasse wydereth and his flower falleth awaye and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: even so shall the ryche man perisshe with his aboundance.
• 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesshe is as grasse and all the glory of man is as the floure of grasse. The grasse widdereth and the flower falleth away
• 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 even then verely when he receaved of god the father honour and glory and when ther came soche a voyce to him from excellent glorie. This is my dere beloved sonne in whom I have delite.
• 2 Pet 3:11-14 : 11 Yf all these thinges shall perisshe what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conversacion and godlynes: 12 lokynge for and hastynge vnto the commynge of the daye of God in which the hevens shall perisshe with fyre and the elementes shalbe consumed with heate. 13 Neverthelesse we loke for a newe heven and a newe erth accordynge to his promes where in dwelleth rightewesnes. 14 Wherfore derly beloved seynge yt ye loke for soche thynges be diliget that ye maye be founde of him in peace wt out spotte and vndefiled