Romans 1:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἕλλησίν τε, καὶ Βαρβάροις· σοφοῖς τε, καὶ ἀνοήτοις ὀφειλέτης εἰμί.

Transliteration

To Hellēsin te, kai to Barbarois· to sophois te, kai to anoētois opheiletēs eimi.

Grammar Details

• *Hellēsin*: dative, masculine, plural - to Greeks
• *te*: conjunction - both/and
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *Barbarois*: dative, masculine, plural - to Barbarians/non-Greeks
• *sophois*: dative, masculine, plural, adjective - to wise
• *anoētois*: dative, masculine, plural, adjective - to foolish
• *opheiletēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - debtor
• *eimi*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I am

Word Meanings

• *Hellēsin*: Greeks/Hellenists
• *Barbarois*: Barbarians/non-Greeks/foreigners
• *sophois*: wise/educated/learned
• *anoētois*: foolish/unintelligent/unlearned
• *opheiletēs*: debtor/one indebted/one under obligation

Referenced Verses

• Col 3:11 : 11 where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
• Jas 3:17-18 : 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: -- 18 and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
• Luke 10:21 : 21 In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, `I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.
• Acts 9:15 : 15 And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;
• Acts 13:2-4 : 2 and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,' 3 then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent `them' away. 4 These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,
• Acts 22:21 : 21 and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'
• Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me.
• Acts 28:2 : 2 and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;
• Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'
• Rom 1:22 : 22 professing to be wise, they were made fools,
• Rom 8:12 : 12 So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
• Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
• Rom 12:16 : 16 of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;
• Rom 13:8 : 8 To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled,
• Rom 16:19 : 19 for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
• 1 Cor 1:19-22 : 19 for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;' 20 where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing. 22 Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,
• 1 Cor 2:13 : 13 which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,
• 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,
• 1 Cor 9:16-23 : 16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news; 17 for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted! 18 What, then, is my reward? -- that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news; 19 for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain; 20 and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain; 21 to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law; 22 I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some. 23 And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;
• 1 Cor 14:11 : 11 if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;
• 1 Cor 14:16 : 16 since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?
• 1 Cor 14:23-24 : 23 If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? 24 and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,
• 2 Cor 10:12 : 12 For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
• 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise,
• Eph 5:15-17 : 15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil; 17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,
• Prov 1:22 : 22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
• Prov 8:5 : 5 Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,
• Isa 35:8 : 8 And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself `is' by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
• Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.