2 Thessalonians 1:11

World English Bible (2000)

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰς ὃ καὶ προσευχόμεθα πάντοτε περὶ ὑμῶν, ἵνα ὑμᾶς ἀξιώσῃ τῆς κλήσεως ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, καὶ πληρώσῃ πᾶσαν εὐδοκίαν ἀγαθωσύνης, καὶ ἔργον πίστεως ἐν δυνάμει:

Transliteration

For which also we proseuchometha pantote concerning you, that you axiōsē of the klēseōs the Theos of us, and plērōsē all eudokian of agathōsynēs, and ergon of pisteōs in dynamei:

Grammar Details

• Εἰς ὃ: preposition + accusative, neuter, singular, relative pronoun - for which
• *proseuchometha*: present indicative, middle, 1st person, plural - we pray
• *pantote*: adverb - always/continually
• περὶ ὑμῶν: preposition + genitive, 2nd person, plural - concerning you
• ἵνα: purpose conjunction - that/in order that
• ὑμᾶς: accusative, 2nd person, plural - direct object of *axiōsē*
• *axiōsē*: aorist subjunctive, active, 3rd person, singular - might count worthy
• *klēseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - object of *axiōsē*
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - subject of *axiōsē*
• ἡμῶν: genitive, 1st person, plural - possessive
• *plērōsē*: aorist subjunctive, active, 3rd person, singular - might fulfill
• *eudokian*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object of *plērōsē*
• *agathōsynēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - possessive/source
• *ergon*: accusative, neuter, singular - direct object of *plērōsē*
• *pisteōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - possessive/source
• ἐν *dynamei*: preposition + dative, feminine, singular - in/with power

Word Meanings

• *proseuchometha*: we pray/petition/entreat
• *pantote*: always/at all times/continually
• *axiōsē*: might count worthy/deem deserving
• *klēseōs*: calling/invitation/vocation
• *Theos*: God/deity
• *plērōsē*: might fulfill/complete/satisfy
• *eudokian*: good pleasure/desire/satisfaction
• *agathōsynēs*: goodness/benevolence/generosity
• *ergon*: work/deed/action
• *pisteōs*: faith/belief/trust
• *dynamei*: power/might/strength

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 1:5 : 5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• 1 Thess 2:12-13 : 12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory. 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Col 1:9-9 : 9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
• 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Titus 3:4-7 : 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Heb 3:1 : 1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
• Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Rev 3:4 : 4 Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
• Rev 5:10 : 10 and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth."
• Phil 3:14 : 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Thess 3:9-9 : 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God; 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you; 12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you, 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• Ps 48:14 : 14 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
• Ps 51:18 : 18 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
• Ps 68:20 : 20 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
• Ps 138:8 : 8 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
• Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"
• Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Isa 66:9 : 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?" says Yahweh: "shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]?" says your God.
• Dan 3:17 : 17 If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
• Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."
• Zech 4:7 : 7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to it!'"
• Mark 4:28 : 28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
• Luke 12:32 : 32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
• John 6:27-29 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him." 28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?" 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
• Rom 1:9 : 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
• Rom 8:30 : 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• Rom 9:23-24 : 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Eph 1:5 : 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
• Eph 1:9 : 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• Eph 1:16 : 16 don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
• Eph 1:19-20 : 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might 20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
• Eph 3:14-21 : 14 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
• Phil 1:6 : 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• Phil 1:9-9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ; 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.