Titus 1:2

World English Bible (2000)

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπʼ ἐλπίδι ζωῆς αἰωνίου, ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ ἀψευδὴς Θεὸς, πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων·

Transliteration

Upon elpidi zōēs aiōniou, which epēngeilato the apseudēs Theos, before chronōn aiōniōn

Grammar Details

• *Ep'*: preposition + dative (elided form) - upon/on the basis of
• *elpidi*: dative, feminine, singular - hope
• *zōēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of life
• *aiōniou*: genitive, feminine, singular - eternal/everlasting
• *hēn*: accusative, feminine, singular, relative pronoun - which
• *epēngeilato*: aorist, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - promised
• *ho*: nominative, masculine, singular article - the
• *apseudēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - not lying/truthful
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *pro*: preposition + genitive - before
• *chronōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of times
• *aiōniōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - eternal/of ages

Word Meanings

• *elpidi*: hope/expectation
• *zōēs*: life/existence
• *aiōniou*: eternal/everlasting/age-lasting
• *epēngeilato*: promised/announced/declared
• *apseudēs*: not lying/truthful/cannot lie
• *chronōn aiōniōn*: eternal times/ages past/times of ages

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Titus 3:7 : 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• Jude 1:21 : 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
• 1 John 2:25 : 25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
• 1 John 5:11-13 : 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.
• Heb 6:17-18 : 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
• 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."
• 2 Tim 2:15 : 15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• 1 John 3:2-3 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. 3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
• 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
• Prov 8:23-31 : 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth; 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep, 28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, 29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth; 30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him, 31 Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
• Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Matt 25:46 : 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
• Mark 10:17 : 17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
• Mark 10:30 : 30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
• 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 5:39 : 39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
• John 6:54 : 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:68 : 68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 10:28 : 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• John 17:2 : 2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• John 17:24 : 24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• Acts 15:18 : 18 All his works are known to God from eternity.'
• Rom 1:2 : 2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
• Rom 2:7 : 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Rom 5:2 : 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Rom 5:4 : 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
• Rom 5:21 : 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 16:25 : 25
• Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
• 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;
• 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
• 1 Tim 6:19 : 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
• Rev 13:8 : 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• Rev 17:8 : 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
• Titus 2:7 : 7 in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
• 1 Pet 1:20-23 : 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.