1 Corinthians 15:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Γνωρίζω δὲ ὑμῖν, ἀδελφοί, τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ὃ εὐηγγελισάμην ὑμῖν, ὃ καὶ παρελάβετε, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἑστήκατε·

Transliteration

Gnōrizō de to you, adelphoi, the euangelion which euēngelisamēn to you, which also you parelabete, in which also you hestēkate

Grammar Details

• *Gnōrizō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - make known/declare
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/now/and
• you: dative, plural (ὑμῖν) - to you
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
• which: relative pronoun (ὃ), accusative, neuter, singular
• *euēngelisamēn*: aorist middle indicative, 1st person singular - preached/evangelized
• *parelabete*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - received
• *hestēkate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - stand/have stood

Word Meanings

• *Gnōrizō*: make known/declare/remind
• *de*: but/now/moreover/and
• *adelphoi*: brothers/siblings/fellow believers
• *euangelion*: gospel/good news
• *euēngelisamēn*: preached/proclaimed/announced good news
• *parelabete*: received/accepted/took
• *hestēkate*: stand firmly/have taken your stand/remain standing

Referenced Verses

• Rom 5:2 : 2 through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.
• 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.
• Gal 1:6-9 : 6 I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; 7 that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ; 8 but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be! 9 as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be! 10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be. 11 And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man, 12 for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught `it', but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,
• Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few `words' I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.
• 1 Thess 1:6 : 6 and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
• 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,
• 1 Cor 1:4-8 : 4 I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge, 6 according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• 1 Cor 1:23-24 : 23 also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness, 24 and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,
• 1 Cor 2:2-7 : 2 for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified; 3 and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you; 4 and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power -- 5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless, 7 but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,
• 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
• 1 Cor 15:3-9 : 3 for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings, 4 and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve, 6 afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep; 7 afterwards he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me, 9 for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God, 10 and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me; 11 whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.
• Mark 4:16-20 : 16 `And these are they, in like manner, who on the rocky ground are sown: who, whenever they may hear the word, immediately with joy do receive it, 17 and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled. 18 `And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word, 19 and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. 20 `And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do bear fruit, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'
• John 12:48 : 48 `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,
• Acts 2:41 : 41 then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
• Acts 11:1 : 1 And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,
• Acts 18:4-5 : 4 and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks. 5 And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;