Jude 1:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὑμεῖς δέ, ἀγαπητοί, τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ ὑμῶν πίστει ἐποικοδομοῦντες ἑαυτοὺς, ἐν Πνεύματι Ἁγίω προσευχόμενοι,

Transliteration

You de, agapētoi, in the hagiōtatē of you pistei epoikodomountes heautous, in Pneumati Hagiō proseuchomenoi,

Grammar Details

• *de*: adversative particle - but/however
• *agapētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - beloved
• *hagiōtatē*: dative, feminine, singular, superlative adjective - most holy
• *pistei*: dative, feminine, singular - faith
• *epoikodomountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - building up
• *heautous*: accusative, reflexive pronoun, masculine, plural - yourselves
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagiō*: dative, neuter, singular, adjective - Holy
• *proseuchomenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - praying

Word Meanings

• *agapētoi*: beloved/dear ones
• *hagiōtatē*: most holy/holiest
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust
• *epoikodomountes*: building up/edifying/constructing upon
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/spirit
• *proseuchomenoi*: praying/entreating/worshiping

Referenced Verses

• Eph 6:18 : 18 With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
• Col 2:7 : 7 Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
• Rom 8:26-27 : 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say; 27 And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.
• 1 Cor 14:15 : 15 What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.
• 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.
• 1 Cor 14:4-5 : 4 He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church. 5 Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.
• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
• 1 John 5:4 : 4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
• Jude 1:3 : 3 My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.
• Rev 13:10 : 10 If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.
• Rom 15:2 : 2 Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
• Acts 9:31 : 31 And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.
• Acts 15:9 : 9 Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
• Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
• 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.
• Gal 4:6 : 6 And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
• Eph 4:12 : 12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
• Eph 4:16 : 16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
• Jas 2:22 : 22 You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them;
• 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
• 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.
• Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,
• 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;