1 Timothy 1:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλὰ διὰ τοῦτο ἠλεήθην, ἵνα ἐν ἐμοὶ πρώτῳ ἐνδείξηται Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς τὴν πᾶσαν μακροθυμίαν, πρὸς ὑποτύπωσιν τῶν μελλόντων πιστεύειν ἐπʼ αὐτῷ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον.

Transliteration

But for dia this I ēleēthēn, so that in emoi prōtō might endeixētai Iēsous Christos the complete makrothymian, for hypotypōsin of the ones mellontōn pisteuein on autō for zōēn aiōnion.

Grammar Details

• *Alla*: contrastive conjunction - but
• *dia*: preposition + accusative - for/because of
• *touto*: accusative, neuter, singular, demonstrative pronoun - this
• *ēleēthēn*: aorist passive indicative, 1st person singular - I was shown mercy
• *hina*: subordinating conjunction - so that/in order that
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *emoi*: dative, singular, personal pronoun - me
• *prōtō*: dative, masculine, singular - adjective
• *endeixētai*: aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might demonstrate/display
• *Iēsous Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - subject
• *tēn pasan*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object with article
• *makrothymian*: accusative, feminine, singular - direct object
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - for/toward
• *hypotypōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - object of preposition
• *tōn mellontōn*: genitive, masculine, plural, substantive participle - of those who are going to
• *pisteuein*: present active infinitive - to believe
• *ep*: preposition + dative - on/upon
• *autō*: dative, masculine, singular, personal pronoun - him
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - for/unto
• *zōēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - object of preposition
• *aiōnion*: accusative, feminine, singular - adjective

Word Meanings

• *ēleēthēn*: was shown mercy/received compassion
• *prōtō*: first/foremost/chief
• *endeixētai*: might demonstrate/might display/might show
• *makrothymian*: patience/longsuffering/forbearance
• *hypotypōsin*: pattern/example/model
• *mellontōn*: those who are going to/future ones/those about to
• *pisteuein*: to believe/to trust
• *zōēn*: life/existence
• *aiōnion*: eternal/everlasting

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did `it' in unbelief,
• Eph 2:7 : 7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,
• 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,
• Luke 7:47 : 47 therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'
• Luke 15:10 : 10 `So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'
• Luke 18:13-14 : 13 `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner! 14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
• Luke 19:7-9 : 7 and having seen `it', they were all murmuring, saying -- `With a sinful man he went in to lodge!' 8 And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.' 9 And Jesus said unto him -- `To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;
• Luke 23:43 : 43 and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
• John 3:15-16 : 15 that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, 16 for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
• John 3:36 : 36 he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'
• John 5:24 : 24 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.
• John 6:37 : 37 all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,
• John 6:40 : 40 and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'
• John 6:54 : 54 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;
• John 20:31 : 31 and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'
• Acts 13:39 : 39 and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;
• Rom 2:4-5 : 4 or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation! 5 but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
• Rom 5:20-21 : 20 And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound, 21 that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 6:23 : 23 for the wages of the sin `is' death, and the gift of God `is' life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 15:4 : 4 for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,
• Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,
• Eph 1:12 : 12 for our being to the praise of His glory, `even' those who did first hope in the Christ,
• 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son; 12 he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God -- the life he hath not.
• 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day;
• Heb 7:25 : 25 whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.
• 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;
• 2 Pet 3:9 : 9 the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,
• Exod 34:8 : 8 And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance,
• Num 23:3 : 3 and Balaam saith to Balak, `Station thyself by thy burnt-offering and I go on, it may be Jehovah doth come to meet me, and the thing which He sheweth me -- I have declared to thee;' and he goeth `to' a high place.
• 2 Chr 33:9-9 : 9 And Manasseh maketh Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel. 10 And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended, 11 and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon. 12 And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah -- He `is' God.
• 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.
• Ps 25:11 : 11 For Thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Thou hast pardoned mine iniquity, for it `is' great.
• Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I -- I `am' He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.
• Isa 55:7 : 7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.