Galatians 3:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐκ ἔνι Ἰουδαῖος οὐδὲ Ἕλλην, οὐκ ἔνι δοῦλος οὐδὲ ἐλεύθερος, οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ: πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς εἷς ἐστε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.

Transliteration

Not there is Ioudaios nor Hellēn, not there is doulos nor eleutheros, not there is arsen and thēly: for all you one este in Christō Iēsou.

Grammar Details

• *eni*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - there is/exists
• *Ioudaios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jew/Jewish person
• *Hellēn*: nominative, masculine, singular - Greek/Gentile
• *doulos*: nominative, masculine, singular - slave/servant
• *eleutheros*: nominative, masculine, singular - free person
• *arsen*: nominative, neuter, singular - male
• *thēly*: nominative, neuter, singular - female
• *este*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person, plural - you are
• *Christō*: dative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *Iēsou*: dative, masculine, singular - Jesus

Word Meanings

• *eni*: there is/exists (shortened form of enestin)
• *Ioudaios*: Jew/Jewish person
• *Hellēn*: Greek/Gentile/non-Jew
• *doulos*: slave/servant/bondservant
• *eleutheros*: free person/freedman
• *arsen*: male/masculine
• *thēly*: female/feminine

Referenced Verses

• Col 3:11 : 11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
• 1 Cor 12:12-13 : 12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Eph 2:13-22 : 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 4:4 : 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
• Eph 4:15-16 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
• John 10:16 : 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
• Rom 2:9-9 : 9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek. 10 But glory and honor and peace to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
• Rom 3:29-30 : 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
• Rom 4:11-12 : 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. 12 The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
• Rom 9:24 : 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Rom 10:12-15 : 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
• 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now are they holy.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• John 11:52 : 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
• John 17:11 : 11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
• John 17:20-21 : 20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
• Eph 3:5-9 : 5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; 6 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel, 7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to make all men see what is the administration{TR reads "fellowship" instead of "administration"} of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ; 10 to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,