1 Thessalonians 4:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸ μὴ ὑπερβαίνειν καὶ πλεονεκτεῖν ἐν τῷ πράγματι τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ: διότι ἔκδικος ὁ Κύριος περὶ πάντων τούτων, καθὼς καὶ προείπαμεν ὑμῖν καὶ διεμαρτυράμεθα.

Transliteration

The not to hyperbainein and to pleonektein in the pragmati the adelphon of him: because ekdikos the Kyrios concerning all these things, just as also we proeipamen to you and diemartyrametha.

Grammar Details

• *hyperbainein*: present, infinitive, active - to overstep/transgress
• *pleonektein*: present, infinitive, active - to take advantage/defraud
• *pragmati*: dative, neuter, singular - matter/affair/business (locative)
• *adelphon*: accusative, masculine, singular - brother (direct object)
• *ekdikos*: nominative, masculine, singular - avenger/one who punishes
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord (subject)
• *proeipamen*: aorist, indicative, active, 1st person, plural - we told before/forewarned
• *diemartyrametha*: aorist, indicative, middle, 1st person, plural - we solemnly testified/charged

Word Meanings

• *hyperbainein*: overstep/transgress/go beyond limits
• *pleonektein*: take advantage/defraud/cheat/exploit
• *pragmati*: matter/affair/business/thing
• *adelphon*: brother/fellow believer
• *ekdikos*: avenger/one who punishes/vindicator
• *proeipamen*: told before/forewarned/previously said
• *diemartyrametha*: solemnly testified/charged/witnessed

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:19 : 19 not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance `is' Mine,
• Eph 4:28 : 28 whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
• Heb 13:4 : 4 honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
• Jas 2:6 : 6 and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
• Jas 5:4 : 4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
• Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Rom 13:4 : 4 for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.
• 1 Cor 6:7-9 : 7 Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded? 8 but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren! 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
• Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
• Eph 4:17 : 17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Exod 20:15 : 15 `Thou dost not steal.
• Exod 20:17 : 17 `Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which `is' thy neighbour's.'
• Lev 19:11 : 11 `Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.
• Lev 19:13 : 13 `Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.
• Lev 25:14 : 14 `And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;
• Lev 25:17 : 17 and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I `am' Jehovah your God.
• Deut 24:7 : 7 `When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
• Deut 25:13-16 : 13 `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. 14 Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small. 15 Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; 16 for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `is' any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
• Deut 32:35 : 35 Mine `are' vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
• 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 `Lo, here `am' I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? -- and I restore to you.' 4 And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'
• Job 31:13-14 : 13 If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, 14 Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?
• Ps 94:1 : 1 God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.
• Ps 140:12 : 12 I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.
• Prov 11:1 : 1 Balances of deceit `are' an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight `is' His delight.
• Prov 16:11 : 11 A just beam and balances `are' Jehovah's, His work `are' all the stones of the bag.
• Prov 20:14 : 14 `Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.
• Prov 20:23 : 23 An abomination to Jehovah `are' a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit `are' not good.
• Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Rob not the poor because he `is' poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. 23 For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.
• Prov 28:24 : 24 Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones `are' over them.
• Isa 1:23-24 : 23 Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them. 24 Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,
• Isa 5:7 : 7 Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
• Isa 59:4-7 : 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. 5 Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper. 6 Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is' in their hands. 7 Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.
• Jer 7:6 : 6 Sojourner, fatherless, and widow, ye oppress not, And innocent blood do not shed in this place, And after other gods do not walk, for evil to yourselves,
• Jer 9:4 : 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,
• Ezek 22:13 : 13 And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst.
• Ezek 45:9-9 : 9 `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. 10 Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have. 11 The ephah and the bath is of one measure, for the bath to bear a tenth of the homer, and the ephah a tenth of the homer: according to the homer is its measurement. 12 And, the shekel `is' twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh. 13 `This `is' the heave-offering that ye lift up; a sixth part of the ephah of a homer of wheat, also ye have given a sixth part of the ephah of a homer of barley, 14 and the portion of oil, the bath of oil, a tenth part of the bath out of the cor, a homer of ten baths -- for ten baths `are' a homer;
• Amos 8:5-6 : 5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. 6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
• Mic 2:2 : 2 And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.
• Zeph 3:1 : 1 Wo `to' the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!
• Zeph 3:5 : 5 Jehovah `is' righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.
• Mark 10:19 : 19 the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'
• Luke 12:5 : 5 but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.
• Rom 1:18 : 18 for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.