Ephesians 6:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐνδύσασθε τὴν πανοπλίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, πρὸς τὸ δύνασθαι ὑμᾶς στῆναι πρὸς τὰς μεθοδείας τοῦ διαβόλου.

Transliteration

Endysasthe the panoplian of the Theou, pros the dynasthai you stēnai pros the methodeias of the diabolou.

Grammar Details

• *Endysasthe*: aorist imperative, 2nd person plural, middle - put on/clothe yourselves [single, decisive action]
• *panoplian*: accusative, feminine, singular - full armor/complete equipment
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - against
• *dynasthai*: present infinitive, middle - to be able
• *stēnai*: aorist infinitive, active - to stand/withstand
• *methodeias*: accusative, feminine, plural - schemes/stratagems
• *diabolou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of devil/slanderer

Word Meanings

• *Endysasthe*: put on/clothe yourselves/dress in
• *panoplian*: full armor/complete equipment/entire arsenal
• *Theou*: God/deity
• *pros*: against/in opposition to
• *dynasthai*: to be able/to have power/to be capable
• *stēnai*: to stand/withstand/hold your ground
• *methodeias*: schemes/stratagems/crafty methods/tactics
• *diabolou*: devil/slanderer/accuser

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
• Rom 13:12 : 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
• Eph 6:13 : 13 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• 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.
• Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
• Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
• 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
• Rev 2:24 : 24 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
• Rev 20:2-3 : 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
• 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive" instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• Eph 4:24 : 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
• Rev 13:11-15 : 11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. 14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. 15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Rev 20:7-8 : 7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
• Mark 13:22 : 22 For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• Jude 1:24 : 24 Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
• Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.