Romans 8:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν τὸν Θεὸν πάντα συνεργεῖ εἰς ἀγαθόν, τοῖς κατὰ πρόθεσιν κλητοῖς οὖσιν.

Transliteration

Oidamen de hoti tois agapōsin ton Theon panta synergei eis agathon, to those kata prothesin klētois ousin.

Grammar Details

• *Oidamen*: perfect active indicative 1st person plural - we know
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *tois agapōsin*: dative masculine plural present active participle - to those loving
• *ton Theon*: accusative masculine singular - God
• *panta*: nominative/accusative neuter plural - all things
• *synergei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - works together
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - for/unto
• *agathon*: accusative neuter singular - good
• *tois*: dative masculine plural - to those
• *kata*: preposition with accusative - according to
• *prothesin*: accusative feminine singular - purpose/plan
• *klētois*: dative masculine plural - called ones
• *ousin*: present active participle dative masculine plural - being

Word Meanings

• *Oidamen*: we know/understand [perfect - completed action with continuing results]
• *agapōsin*: loving/having affection for
• *panta*: all things/everything
• *synergei*: works together/cooperates/collaborates
• *agathon*: good/beneficial/valuable
• *prothesin*: purpose/plan/intention
• *klētois*: called ones/invited ones
• *ousin*: being/existing

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
• Gen 50:20 : 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
• Rom 5:3-5 : 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: 5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
• Jas 1:3-4 : 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
• 1 Cor 2:9 : 9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, Which didn't enter into the heart of man, These God has prepared for those who love him."
• Rom 8:30 : 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• 1 Pet 1:7-8 : 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ-- 8 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--
• 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,
• 1 Cor 1:9 : 9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
• Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Heb 12:6-9 : 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives." 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. 12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
• Gal 1:15 : 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
• Eph 1:9-9 : 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him 10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him; 11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
• Zech 13:9 : 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
• Neh 1:5 : 5 and said, I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
• Ps 46:1-2 : 1 > God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, Though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
• Deut 8:2-3 : 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
• 2 Cor 4:15-17 : 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. 16 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
• Eph 3:11 : 11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love Him, because he first loved us.
• Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
• Deut 6:5 : 5 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
• Jas 2:5 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 1 John 5:2-3 : 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
• Mark 12:30 : 30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.
• Ps 69:36 : 36 The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
• Jer 24:5-7 : 5 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. 6 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
• Exod 20:6 : 6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness."
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; 14 to which he called you through our Gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Phil 1:19-23 : 19 For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I will choose. 23 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Rom 9:23-24 : 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Rom 1:6-7 : 6 among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ; 7 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 9:11 : 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
• Acts 13:48 : 48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
• Gal 5:8 : 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
• 1 John 4:10 : 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
• 2 Thess 1:5-7 : 5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer. 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, 7 and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,