John 3:36

World English Bible (2000)

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ πιστεύων εἰς τὸν Υἱὸν ἔχει ζωὴν αἰώνιον: ὁ δὲ ἀπειθῶν τῷ Υἱῷ οὐκ ὄψεται ζωήν· ἀλλʼ ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ Θεοῦ μένει ἐπʼ αὐτόν.

Transliteration

The one pisteuōn eis ton Hyion echei zōēn aiōnion: but the one apeithōn tō Hyiō ouk opsetai zōēn; but the orgē tou Theou menei ep' auton.

Grammar Details

• *pisteuōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - believing
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - in/into
• *Hyion*: accusative, masculine, singular - Son
• *echei*: present, 3rd singular - has
• *zōēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - life
• *aiōnion*: accusative, feminine, singular - eternal
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but
• *apeithōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - disobeying
• *Hyiō*: dative, masculine, singular - Son
• *opsetai*: future, middle, 3rd singular - will see
• *orgē*: nominative, feminine, singular - wrath
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *menei*: present, 3rd singular - remains/abides
• *ep'*: preposition + accusative - upon
• *auton*: personal pronoun, accusative, masculine - him

Word Meanings

• *pisteuōn*: believing/trusting/having faith in
• *apeithōn*: disobeying/refusing to believe/being unpersuaded
• *orgē*: wrath/anger/indignation
• *menei*: remains/abides/continues/stays

Referenced Verses

• John 3:15-16 : 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 5:24 : 24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• John 1:12 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
• Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
• 1 John 5:10-13 : 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
• John 3:3 : 3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
• 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith." 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
• John 8:51 : 51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
• John 10:28 : 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
• Rom 5:9 : 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.
• Rom 8:1 : 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• Rev 6:16-17 : 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
• 1 John 3:14-15 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
• Rom 8:24-25 : 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? 25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
• Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
• Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Num 32:11 : 11 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
• Job 33:28 : 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'
• Ps 2:12 : 12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
• Ps 36:9 : 9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
• Ps 49:19 : 19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
• Ps 106:4-5 : 4 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation, 5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
• Hab 2:4 : 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Luke 2:30 : 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation,
• Luke 3:6 : 6 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"
• John 6:47-54 : 47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• Heb 10:29 : 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?