Romans 1:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μάρτυς γάρ μού ἐστιν ὁ Θεός, ᾧ λατρεύω ἐν τῷ πνεύματί μου ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ Υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἀδιαλείπτως μνείαν ὑμῶν ποιοῦμαι

Transliteration

Martys gar mou estin the Theos, hō latreuō en the pneumati mou en the euangeliō the Huiou autou, hōs adialeiptōs mneian hymōn poioumai

Grammar Details

• *Martys*: nominative, masculine, singular - witness
• *gar*: conjunction - for
• *mou*: genitive, singular, personal pronoun - of me/my
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *hō*: dative, masculine, singular, relative pronoun - whom
• *latreuō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I serve/worship
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - spirit
• *euangeliō*: dative, neuter, singular - gospel
• *Huiou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Son
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular, possessive pronoun - his
• *hōs*: adverb - how/that
• *adialeiptōs*: adverb - unceasingly
• *mneian*: accusative, feminine, singular - mention/remembrance
• *hymōn*: genitive, plural, personal pronoun - of you/your
• *poioumai*: present middle indicative, 1st person singular - I make

Word Meanings

• *Martys*: witness/testifier
• *latreuō*: I serve/worship/minister to
• *pneumati*: spirit/inner being/soul
• *euangeliō*: gospel/good news
• *adialeiptōs*: unceasingly/constantly/without interruption
• *mneian*: mention/remembrance/memory

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,
• Rom 9:1 : 1 Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,
• 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 continually pray ye;
• 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;
• Eph 6:18 : 18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
• Phil 1:4 : 4 always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,
• Phil 1:8-9 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ, 9 and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment, 10 for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that `is' through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Phil 2:22 : 22 and the proof of him ye know, that as a child `serveth' a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;
• Phil 3:3 : 3 for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,
• Col 1:9-9 : 9 Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God, 11 in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy. 12 Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light, 13 who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate `us' into the reign of the Son of His love,
• Col 1:28-29 : 28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, 29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
• 1 Thess 1:2 : 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
• 1 Thess 2:5-9 : 5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!) 6 nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles. 7 But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children, 8 so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us, 9 for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God; 10 ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,
• 1 Thess 3:10 : 10 night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.
• 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 `I, also, far be it from me to sin against Jehovah, by ceasing to pray for you, and I have directed you in the good and upright way;
• Job 16:19 : 19 Also, now, lo, in the heavens `is' my witness, And my testifier in the high places.
• Mark 1:1 : 1 A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.
• Luke 18:1 : 1 And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth `us' always to pray, and not to faint,
• John 4:23-24 : 23 but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him; 24 God `is' a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'
• Acts 3:26 : 26 to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'
• Acts 12:5 : 5 Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,
• Acts 19:21 : 21 And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying -- `After my being there, it behoveth me also to see Rome;'
• Acts 24:14 : 14 `And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,
• Acts 27:23 : 23 for there stood by me this night a messenger of God -- whose I am, and whom I serve --
• 2 Cor 11:10-11 : 10 The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia; 11 wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!
• 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --
• Gal 1:20 : 20 And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;
• Eph 1:16-19 : 16 do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,
• Eph 3:14-21 : 14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named, 16 that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man, 17 that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded, 18 that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what `is' the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, 19 to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God; 20 and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us, 21 to Him `is' the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.
• 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
• 1 Cor 14:14-15 : 14 for if I pray in an `unknown' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;
• Phlm 1:4 : 4 I give thanks to my God, always making mention of thee in my prayers,
• 1 John 5:9-9 : 9 If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son. 10 He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son; 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.