Matthew 7:13

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Enter in at the strayte gate: for wyde is ye gate and broade is the waye that leadeth to destruccion: and many ther be which goo yn therat.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰσέλθετε διὰ τῆς στενῆς πύλης: ὅτι πλατεῖα ἡ πύλη, καὶ εὐρύχωρος ἡ ὁδὸς, ἡ ἀπάγουσα εἰς τὴν ἀπώλειαν, καὶ πολλοί εἰσιν οἱ εἰσερχόμενοι διʼ αὐτῆς:

Transliteration

Eiselthete dia tēs stenēs pylēs: because plateia hē pylē, and eurychōros hē hodos, the apagousa eis tēn apōleian, and polloi eisin hoi eiserchomenoi di' autēs:

Grammar Details

• *Eiselthete*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - enter
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - through
• *tēs stenēs*: genitive singular feminine - the narrow
• *pylēs*: genitive singular feminine - gate
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
• *plateia*: nominative singular feminine - wide/broad
• *hē pylē*: nominative singular feminine - the gate
• *eurychōros*: nominative singular feminine - spacious/broad
• *hē hodos*: nominative singular feminine - the way/road
• *hē apagousa*: nominative singular feminine present active participle - the leading away
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - into/to
• *tēn apōleian*: accusative singular feminine - the destruction
• *polloi*: nominative plural masculine - many
• *eisin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - are
• *hoi eiserchomenoi*: nominative plural masculine present middle participle - the ones entering
• *di'*: preposition with genitive - through
• *autēs*: genitive singular feminine - it/her [referring to gate/way]

Word Meanings

• *eiselthete*: enter/go in/come in
• *stenēs*: narrow/confined/restricted
• *pylēs*: gate/entrance/door
• *plateia*: wide/broad/spacious
• *eurychōros*: spacious/roomy/broad
• *hodos*: way/road/path/journey
• *apagousa*: leading away/taking away/conducting
• *apōleian*: destruction/ruin/loss/damnation
• *eiserchomenoi*: entering/going in/coming in

Referenced Verses

• Luke 13:24-25 : 24 stryve with youre selves to enter in at ye strayte gate: For many I saye vnto you will seke to enter in and shall not be able. 25 When the good man of ye housse is rysen vp and hath shett to the dore ye shall beginne to stonde with out and to knocke at the dore sayinge: Lorde LORde open vnto vs: and he shall answer and saye vnto you: I knowe you not whence ye are.
• Gal 5:24 : 24 They ye are Christis have crucified the flesshe with the appetites and lustes
• John 10:9 : 9 I am the dore: by me yf eny man enter in he shalbe safe and shall goo in and out and fynde pasture.
• 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.
• Matt 3:2 : 2 saynge; Repet the kyngdome of heue is at honde.
• 1 Pet 4:17-18 : 17 For the tyme is come that iudgement must begynne at the housse of god. If it fyrst begynne at vs what shall the ende be of them which beleve not the gospell of god? 18 And yf the righteous scasly be saved: where shall the vngodly and the sinner appere?
• Matt 3:8 : 8 Brynge forth therfore the frutes belongynge to repentauce.
• Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites for ye shutte vp the kyngdome of heve before men: ye youre selves goo not in nether suffre ye them that come to enter in.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the grett dragon that olde serpent called the devyll and Sathanas was cast out. Which desceaveth all the worlde. And he was cast into the erth and his angelles were cast out also.
• 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 20:3 : 3 and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and he bounde him and set a seale on him yt he shuld desceaue the people no moare tyll the.M. yeares were fulfilled. And after yt he muste be loosed for a litell season.
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And whosoever was not founde written in the boke of lyfe was cast into the lake of fyre.
• 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 in flammynge fyre rendrynge vengeaunce vnto them that knowe not God and to them that obeye not vnto the gospell of oure Lorde Iesus Christ 9 which shalbe punysshed with everlastynge damnacion from the presence of the LORde and from the glory of his power
• Gen 6:5 : 5 And whan the LORde sawe yt the wekednesse of man was encreased apon the erth and that all the ymaginacion and toughtes of his hert was only evell continually
• Gen 6:12 : 12 And God loked vpon the erth ad loo it was corrupte: for all flesh had corrupte his way vppon the erth.
• Acts 2:38-40 : 38 Peter sayde vnto them: repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for the remission of synnes and ye shall receave the gyfte of the holy goost. 39 For ye promyse was made vnto you and to youre chyldre and to all that are afarre even as many as ye Lorde oure God shall call. 40 And with many other wordes bare he witnes and exhorted them sayinge: Save youre selves from this vntowarde generacion.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom ye god of this worlde hath blynded the myndes of them which beleve not lest the light of ye glorious gospell of Christ which is the ymage of god shuld shyne vnto them.
• 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Wherfore come out from amoge the and separate youreselues (sayth the LORde) and touche none vncleane thynge: so wyll I receave you
• Luke 14:33 : 33 So lykewyse none of you yt forsaketh not all yt he hath can be my disciple.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therfore and turne yt youre synnes maye be done awaye when the tyme of refresshinge commeth which we shall have of the presence of the Lorde
• Rom 3:9-9 : 9 What saye we then? Are we better then they? No in no wyse. For we have all ready proved how that both Iewes and Gentils are all vnder synne 10 as it is writte: There is none righteous no not one: 11 There is none that vnderstondith there is none yt seketh after God 12 they are all gone out of ye waye they are all made vnprofytable ther is none that doeth good no not one. 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre with their tounges they have disceaved: the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes. 14 Whose mouthes are full of coursynge and bitternes. 15 Their fete are swyfte to sheed bloud. 16 Destruccion and wretchednes are in their wayes. 17 And the waye of peace they have not knowen. 18 There is no feare of God before their eyes. 19 Ye and we knowe that whatsoever ye lawe sayth he sayth it to them which are vnder the lawe. That all mouthes maye be stopped and all the worlde be subdued to god
• Rom 9:22 : 22 Even so God willynge to shewe his wrath and to make his power knowen suffered with longe pacience the vessels of wrath ordeyned to damnacion
• Matt 18:2-3 : 2 Iesus called a chylde vnto him and set him in the middes of them: 3 and sayd. Verely I say vnto you: except ye tourne and become as chyldren ye cannot enter into the kyngdom of heven.
• Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shall the kynge saye vnto them that shalbe on the lyfte hande: departe from me ye coursed into everlastinge fire which is prepared for the devyll and his angels.
• Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go into everlastinge payne: And the righteous into lyfe eternall.
• Luke 9:33 : 33 And it chaunsed as they departed fro him Peter sayde vnto Iesus: Master it is good beinge here for vs. Let vs make thre tabernacles one for the and one for Moses and one for Helyas: and wist not what he sayde.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We knowe that we are of god and that the worlde is altogedder set on wickednes.
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 in ye which in tyme passed ye walked acordynge to the course of this worlde and after the governer that ruleth in the ayer the sprete yt now worketh in the children of vnbelefe 3 amonge which we also had oure conversacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesshe and fullfilled the will of the flesshe and of the mynde: and were naturally the children of wrath even as wel as other.