Romans 16:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀσπάζονται ὑμᾶς, Τιμόθεος ὁ συνεργός μου, καὶ Λούκιος, καὶ Ἰάσων, καὶ Σωσίπατρος, οἱ συγγενεῖς μου.

Transliteration

Aspazontai you, Timotheos the synergos of-me, and Loukios, and Iasōn, and Sōsipatros, the syngeneis of-me.

Grammar Details

• *Aspazontai*: present indicative middle, 3rd person plural - greet/salute
• ὑμᾶς: accusative plural pronoun - you
• *Timotheos*: nominative masculine singular - Timothy (proper name)
• *synergos*: nominative masculine singular - fellow worker/co-laborer
• μου: genitive singular pronoun - of me/my
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• *Loukios*: nominative masculine singular - Lucius (proper name)
• *Iasōn*: nominative masculine singular - Jason (proper name)
• *Sōsipatros*: nominative masculine singular - Sosipater (proper name)
• *syngeneis*: nominative masculine plural - relatives/kinsmen

Word Meanings

• *synergos*: fellow worker/co-laborer/colleague
• *syngeneis*: relatives/kinsmen/compatriots/countrymen

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:4 : 4 And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia.
• Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.
• Acts 13:1 : 1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.
• Rom 16:7 : 7 Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.
• Rom 16:11 : 11 Give my love to Herodion, my relation. Say a kind word to those of the house of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 1:1 : 1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
• 2 Cor 1:19 : 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.
• Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:
• Phil 2:19-23 : 19 But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you. 20 For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you. 21 For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ. 22 But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news. 23 Him then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how things will go for me:
• Col 1:1 : 1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the purpose of God, and Timothy our brother,
• 1 Thess 1:1 : 1 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
• 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith;
• 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;
• 2 Thess 1:1 : 1 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
• 1 Tim 1:2 : 2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
• 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;
• 2 Tim 1:2 : 2 To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Heb 13:23 : 23 Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.
• Acts 16:1-3 : 1 And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and there was a certain disciple there named Timothy, whose mother was one of the Jews of the faith, but his father was a Greek; 2 Of whom the brothers at Lystra and Iconium had a high opinion. 3 Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.
• Acts 17:14 : 14 So the brothers sent Paul straight away to the sea: but Silas and Timothy kept there still.
• Acts 18:5 : 5 And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was completely given up to the word, preaching to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
• Acts 19:22 : 22 And having sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, into Macedonia, he himself went on living in Asia for a time.