For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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εἰ
Vocabulary form:
εἰ
Definition:
if
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
502
GK:
1623
Mnemonic Singing:
My gracious Redeemer,
my Savior art Thou,
if ever I love Thee,
my Jesus 'tis now.
Notes:
This is not the same as ei that means "you are." Watch the accents here carefully, because eij does not have an accent. Like ejavn, eij always introduces a dependent clause, and therefore you will not find the main subject or verb of the sentence in the eij clause.
Biblical Concordance
| Matthew 4:3 | And the tempter came to him and said, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.” |
| Matthew 4:6 | and said to him, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it stands written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘on their hands they will hold you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’” |
| Matthew 5:13 | “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how will it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything but (ei | εἰ | conj) to be thrown out and trampled under foot by those who pass by. |
| Matthew 5:29 | If (ei | εἰ | conj) your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away for it is better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell. |
| Matthew 5:30 | And if (ei | εἰ | conj) your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away for it is better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell. |
| Matthew 6:1 | “Take care not to perform your good deeds before others so as to be seen by them; otherwise (ei | εἰ | conj) you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. |
| Matthew 6:23 | but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be filled with darkness. If (ei | εἰ | conj) then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! |
| Matthew 6:30 | Now if (ei | εἰ | conj) God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today but tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? |
| Matthew 7:11 | If (ei | εἰ | conj) then you, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him! |
| Matthew 8:31 | And the demons begged him, saying, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.” |
| Matthew 9:17 | Neither is new wine poured into old wineskins. If that happens (ei | εἰ | conj), the wineskins split, the wine pours out, and the wineskins are ruined. Instead, new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” |
| Matthew 10:25 | It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his master. If (ei | εἰ | conj) they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they revile the members of his household! |
| Matthew 11:14 | and if (ei | εἰ | conj) you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. |
| Matthew 11:21 | “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if (ei | εἰ | conj) the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, had been done the mighty works done in you they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. |
| Matthew 11:23 | And as for you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if (ei | εἰ | conj) the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, had been done the mighty works done in you it would have remained to this day. |
| Matthew 11:27 | All things were handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except (ei | εἰ | conj) the Father; neither does anyone know the Father except (ei | εἰ | conj) the Son and the one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. |
| Matthew 12:4 | how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but (ei | εἰ | conj) for the priests alone? |
| Matthew 12:7 | And if (ei | εἰ | conj) you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. |
| Matthew 12:10 | and there he saw a man with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” — so they might have a charge to bring against him. |
| Matthew 12:24 | But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except (ei | εἰ | conj) by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.” |
| Matthew 12:26 | So if (ei | εἰ | conj) Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand? |
| Matthew 12:27 | And if (ei | εἰ | conj) I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges. |
| Matthew 12:28 | But if (ei | εἰ | conj) I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. |
| Matthew 12:39 | But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except (ei | εἰ | conj) the sign of Jonah the prophet. |
| Matthew 13:57 | And they were deeply offended at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except (ei | εἰ | conj) in his hometown and in his own household.” |
| Matthew 14:17 | And they said to him, “We have nothing here but (ei | εἰ | conj) five loaves and two fish.” |
| Matthew 14:28 | And Peter answered him, saying, “Lord, if (ei | εἰ | conj) it is you, tell me to come to you on the water.” |
| Matthew 15:24 | But he answered, saying, “I was not sent except (ei | εἰ | conj) to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” |
| Matthew 16:4 | An evil and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but no sign will be given it except (ei | εἰ | conj) the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away. |
| Matthew 16:24 | Then Jesus told his disciples, “If (ei | εἴ | conj) anyone resolves to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. |
| Matthew 17:4 | And Peter spoke to Jesus, saying, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If (ei | εἰ | conj) you wish, I will put up three shelters here — one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” |
| Matthew 17:8 | And when they raised their eyes, they saw no one except (ei | εἰ | conj) Jesus himself alone. |
| Matthew 18:8 | “If (ei | εἰ | conj) your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire. |
| Matthew 18:9 | And if (ei | εἰ | conj) your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire. |
| Matthew 18:28 | But that same servant then went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what (ei | εἴ | conj) you owe.’ |
| Matthew 19:3 | Some Pharisees came to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?” |
| Matthew 19:10 | The disciples said to him, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” |
| Matthew 19:17 | And Jesus replied “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If (ei | εἰ | conj) you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” |
| Matthew 19:21 | Jesus said to him, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you want to be perfect, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” |
| Matthew 21:19 | And seeing a fig tree by the road, he went over to it and found nothing on it except (ei | εἰ | conj) leaves only. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And at once the fig tree withered away. |
| Matthew 22:45 | If (ei | εἰ | conj) therefore David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” |
| Matthew 23:30 | and you say, ‘If (ei | εἰ | conj) we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ |
| Matthew 24:22 | And unless (ei | εἰ | conj) those days were shortened, no human being would survive. But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. |
| Matthew 24:24 | For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and they will perform great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if (ei | εἰ | conj) that were possible, even the elect. |
| Matthew 24:36 | “But concerning that day and hour, no one knows, neither the angels of heaven nor the Son, but (ei | εἰ | conj) the Father only. |
| Matthew 24:43 | But understand this: if (ei | εἰ | conj) the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. |
| Matthew 26:24 | The Son of Man will depart as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man had he not been born.” |
| Matthew 26:33 | Peter answered, saying to him, “Though (ei | εἰ | conj) they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” |
| Matthew 26:39 | And going a short distance beyond them, he threw face himself face, to the ground, praying, “My Father, if (ei | εἰ | conj) it be possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not as I will but as you will.” |
| Matthew 26:42 | Once again he went away and prayed, saying, “My Father, if (ei | εἰ | conj) this cannot pass unless I drink it, may your will be done.” |