1 Thessalonians 3:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ ἡμῶν, καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, κατευθύναι τὴν ὁδὸν ἡμῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Transliteration

Autos but the Theos and Patēr of us, and the Kyrios of us Iēsous Christos, may kateuthynai the hodon of us pros you.

Grammar Details

• *Autos*: intensive pronoun, nominative singular masculine - himself
• *Theos*: nominative singular masculine - God
• *Patēr*: nominative singular masculine - Father
• *Kyrios*: nominative singular masculine - Lord
• *Iēsous Christos*: nominative singular masculine - Jesus Christ
• *kateuthynai*: aorist active optative, 3rd person singular - may direct/guide
• *hodon*: accusative singular feminine - way/road/journey
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward

Word Meanings

• *kateuthynai*: may direct/guide/make straight
• *hodon*: way/road/path/journey

Referenced Verses

• 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
• Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. 6 In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 For Thou `art' our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, `art' our Father, Our redeemer from the age, `is' Thy name.
• Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I `am' a father, where `is' Mine honour? And if I `am' a master, where `is' My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?'
• Matt 6:14 : 14 `For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who `is' in the heavens;
• Matt 6:18 : 18 that thou mayest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father who `is' in secret, and thy Father, who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.
• Matt 6:26 : 26 look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?
• Mark 1:3 : 3 `A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --
• Luke 12:30 : 30 for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;
• Luke 12:32 : 32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
• Matt 6:6 : 6 `But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who `is' in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.
• Rom 1:3 : 3 concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,
• Ezra 8:21-23 : 21 And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance, 22 for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, `The hand of our God `is' upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath `is' upon all forsaking Him.' 23 And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.
• Gal 1:4 : 4 who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
• 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
• Col 1:2 : 2 to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
• 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'
• Matt 6:8-9 : 8 be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him; 9 thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who `art' in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.
• John 20:17 : 17 Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
• Matt 6:32 : 32 for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;
• Matt 6:4 : 4 that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.
• Jer 31:9 : 9 With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is' he.