Romans 15:18

World English Bible (2000)

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ γὰρ τολμήσω λαλεῖν τι ὧν οὐ κατειργάσατο Χριστὸς διʼ ἐμοῦ, εἰς ὑπακοὴν Ἐθνῶν, λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ,

Transliteration

Not gar I will tolmēsō to lalein anything which not kateirgasato Christos through me, eis hypakoēn of Ethnōn, by logō and ergō,

Grammar Details

• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/indeed
• *tolmēsō*: future active indicative, 1st person singular - I will dare
• *lalein*: present active infinitive - to speak
• *kateirgasato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - accomplished/worked
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - for/unto
• *hypakoēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - obedience
• *Ethnōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of Gentiles/nations
• *logō*: dative, masculine, singular - by word
• *ergō*: dative, neuter, singular - by deed

Word Meanings

• *tolmēsō*: I will dare/I will venture
• *lalein*: to speak/to talk about
• *kateirgasato*: accomplished/worked/brought about
• *hypakoēn*: obedience/submission
• *Ethnōn*: of Gentiles/of nations/of peoples
• *logō*: by word/by speech
• *ergō*: by deed/by action/by work

Referenced Verses

• Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
• Acts 15:12 : 12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
• Acts 21:19 : 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
• Prov 25:14 : 14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
• Gal 2:8 : 8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
• 2 Thess 2:17 : 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
• Heb 5:9 : 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
• Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
• Jas 1:22 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• Jude 1:9 : 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
• Col 3:17 : 17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
• Acts 26:20 : 20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
• Matt 28:18-20 : 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
• Mark 16:20 : 20 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
• Acts 14:27 : 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• Acts 15:4 : 4 When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
• Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
• 1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
• 2 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• 2 Cor 10:13-18 : 13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. 14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ, 15 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence, 16 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done. 17 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." 18 For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
• 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie.
• 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.