Romans 8:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ δὲ τέκνα, καὶ κληρονόμοι· κληρονόμοι Μὲν Θεοῦ, συγκληρονόμοι δὲ Χριστοῦ· εἴπερ συμπάσχομεν, ἵνα καὶ συνδοξασθῶμεν.

Transliteration

Ei de tekna, also klēronomoi; klēronomoi Men Theou, sygklēronomoi de Christou; eiper sympaschomen, hina also syndoxasthōmen.

Grammar Details

• *Ei*: conditional particle - if
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and (correlates with *Men*)
• *tekna*: nominative neuter plural - children
• *kai*: conjunction - also/even
• *klēronomoi*: nominative masculine plural - heirs
• *Men*: correlative particle paired with *de* - on the one hand
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *sygklēronomoi*: nominative masculine plural - joint heirs
• *Christou*: genitive masculine singular - of Christ
• *eiper*: conditional conjunction - if indeed/since
• *sympaschomen*: present active indicative 1st person plural - we suffer with
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *syndoxasthōmen*: aorist passive subjunctive 1st person plural - we might be glorified with

Word Meanings

• *klēronomoi*: heirs/inheritors
• *sygklēronomoi*: joint heirs/co-inheritors
• *eiper*: if indeed/provided that/since
• *sympaschomen*: we suffer with/share in suffering
• *syndoxasthōmen*: we might be glorified with/share in glory

Referenced Verses

• Gal 4:7 : 7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
• Gal 3:29 : 29 and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
• Titus 3:7 : 7 that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.
• Eph 3:6 : 6 that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,
• Phil 1:29 : 29 because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;
• 2 Tim 2:10-14 : 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. 11 Stedfast `is' the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together; 12 if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny `him', he also shall deny us; 13 if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able. 14 These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;
• Rom 5:9-9 : 9 much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath; 10 for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
• Rom 5:17 : 17 for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ.
• John 17:24 : 24 `Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.
• Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,
• Acts 20:32 : 32 and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.
• Heb 1:14 : 14 are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?
• Heb 6:17 : 17 in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,
• 2 Cor 1:7 : 7 and our hope `is' stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, 11 for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh, 12 so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.
• 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
• 1 Pet 4:13 : 13 but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;
• Rev 21:7 : 7 he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,
• Rev 3:21 : 21 He who is overcoming -- I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also did overcome and did sit down with my Father in His throne.
• Jas 2:5 : 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?
• Acts 26:18 : 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.
• Matt 16:24 : 24 Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,
• Matt 25:21 : 21 `And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.
• Luke 12:32 : 32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
• Luke 22:29-30 : 29 and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom, 30 that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
• Luke 24:26 : 26 Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'
• John 12:25-26 : 25 he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it; 26 if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.
• Rom 8:3 : 3 for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,
• Rom 8:29-30 : 29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; 30 and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.
• 1 Cor 2:9 : 9 but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him --'
• 1 Cor 3:22-23 : 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours, 23 and ye `are' Christ's, and Christ `is' God's.