Romans 12:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὸ αὐτὸ εἰς ἀλλήλους φρονοῦντες. Μὴ τὰ ὑψηλὰ φρονοῦντες, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ταπεινοῖς συναπαγόμενοι. Μὴ γίνεσθε φρόνιμοι παρʼ ἑαυτοῖς.

Transliteration

The same toward allēlous fronountes. Not the hypsēla fronountes, but to the tapeinois synapagomenoi. Not ginesthe fronimoi with yourselves.

Grammar Details

• *allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another
• *fronountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - thinking/minding
• *hypsēla*: accusative, neuter, plural - high things/lofty things
• *tapeinois*: dative, masculine/neuter, plural - to lowly things/people
• *synapagomenoi*: present middle/passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - being carried away with/associating with
• *ginesthe*: present middle/passive imperative, 2nd person plural - become/be
• *fronimoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - wise/prudent

Word Meanings

• *allēlous*: one another/each other
• *fronountes*: thinking/minding/setting your mind on
• *hypsēla*: high things/lofty things/proud things
• *tapeinois*: lowly things/humble people/people of low position
• *synapagomenoi*: being carried away with/associating with/condescending to
• *ginesthe*: become/be/happen
• *fronimoi*: wise/prudent/sensible

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
• Prov 3:7 : 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.
• Rom 15:5 : 5 And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;
• Jas 3:13-17 : 13 Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom, 14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; 15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, 16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter; 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
• Isa 5:21 : 21 Wo `to' the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!
• 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;
• Heb 13:5 : 5 Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'
• Phil 4:2 : 2 Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;
• 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;
• 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,
• Jer 45:5 : 5 And thou -- thou seekest for thee great things -- do not seek, for lo, I am bringing in evil on all flesh -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and I have given to thee thy life for a spoil, in all places whither thou goest.'
• Prov 26:12 : 12 Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!
• Matt 6:25-26 : 25 `Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? 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?
• Matt 11:5 : 5 blind receive sight, and lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, dead are raised, and poor have good news proclaimed,
• Matt 18:1-4 : 1 At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' 2 And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, 3 and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens; 4 whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.
• Matt 20:21-28 : 21 and he said to her, `What wilt thou?' She saith to him, `Say, that they may sit -- these my two sons -- one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.' 22 And Jesus answering said, `Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, `We are able.' 23 And he saith to them, `Of my cup indeed ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with ye shall be baptized; but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but -- to those for whom it hath been prepared by my father.' 24 And the ten having heard, were much displeased with the two brothers, 25 and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them, 26 but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant; 27 and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant; 28 even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
• Matt 26:11 : 11 for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;
• Luke 4:6-9 : 6 and the Devil said to him, `To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it; 7 thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me -- all shall be thine.' 8 And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.' 9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence, 10 for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee, 11 and -- On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.'
• Luke 6:20 : 20 And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor -- because yours is the reign of God.
• Luke 14:13 : 13 but when thou mayest make a feast, be calling poor, maimed, lame, blind,
• Luke 22:24-27 : 24 And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater. 25 And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors; 26 but ye `are' not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering; 27 for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
• Acts 4:32 : 32 and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.
• Rom 6:2 : 2 let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?
• Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoso is mocking at the poor Hath reproached his Maker, Whoso is rejoicing at calamity is not acquitted.
• Prov 19:7 : 7 All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!
• Prov 19:17 : 17 Whoso is lending `to' Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.
• Prov 19:22 : 22 The desirableness of a man `is' his kindness, And better `is' the poor than a liar.
• 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 Also, in Judah hath the hand of God been to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and of the heads, in the matter of Jehovah;
• Job 36:5 : 5 Lo, God `is' mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty `in' power `and' heart.
• Ps 131:1-2 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me. 2 Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me `is' my soul.
• 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;
• 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!
• 1 Cor 1:10 : 10 And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,
• Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
• Jer 32:39 : 39 and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:
• 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,
• Phil 2:2-3 : 2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing, 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
• Phil 3:16 : 16 but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;
• Phil 4:11-13 : 11 not that in respect of want I say `it', for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content; 12 I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. 13 For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment; 7 for nothing did we bring into the world -- `it is' manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; 8 but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves; 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,
• Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? 6 and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
• Job 31:13-16 : 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? 15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. 16 If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
• 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
• 3 John 1:9 : 9 I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;
• Rev 13:7-8 : 7 and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation. 8 And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;