For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ἑαυτοῦ
Vocabulary form:
ἑαυτοῦ
Definition:
himself/herself/itself
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
319
GK:
1571
Notes:
Because of the word's meaning, it can never occur in the nominative; so for this word the lexical form is the genitive singular. It follows the same inflectional pattern as aujtovV. eJautou can also be translated in the plural as a first ("ourselves") or second ("yourselves") person.
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 23:21 | But you should not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in wait for him and have bound themselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd) by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. And now they are ready, awaiting your consent.” |
| Acts 25:4 | So then Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea but that he himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) intended to go there shortly. |
| Acts 28:16 | And when we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd), with a soldier guarding him. |
| Romans 1:27 | and likewise the men also abandoned the natural sexual relation with women and burned in their passion for one another — men with men committing shameless acts and receiving in themselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) the due penalty for their error. |
| Romans 2:14 | whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these, although they do not have the law, are a law to themselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd). |
| Romans 4:19 | Not being weak in faith, he considered his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own body as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. |
| Romans 5:8 | But God demonstrates his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. |
| Romans 6:11 | So you too consider yourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd) to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. |
| Romans 6:13 | Do not continue to present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd) to God as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. |
| Romans 6:16 | Do you not know that if you present yourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd) to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? |
| Romans 8:3 | For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God, by sending his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, condemned sin in the flesh, |
| Romans 8:23 | And not only this, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies. |
| Romans 11:25 | I do not want you to be uninformed, my brothers, of this mystery — so that you may not be wise in your (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc2nd) own conceits — that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. |
| Romans 12:16 | Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc2nd) own estimation. |
| Romans 12:19 | Never avenge yourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd), dear friends, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” |
| Romans 13:2 | Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has decreed, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd). |
| Romans 14:7 | For none of us lives for himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), and none dies for himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd). |
| Romans 14:12 | So then each of us will give an account of himself (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) to God. |
| Romans 14:14 | I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg neut3rd); however, to the one who considers something to be unclean, to him it is unclean. |
| Romans 14:22 | The faith that you have, keep as your own conviction before God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to condemn himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd) for what he approves. |
| Romans 15:1 | We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc1st). |
| Romans 15:3 | For Christ did not please himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd); but as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.” |
| Romans 16:4 | who risked their (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc3rd) own (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc3rd) necks for my life. Not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them. |
| Romans 16:18 | For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc3rd) own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the guileless. |
| 1 Corinthians 3:18 | Let no one deceive himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd). If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise. |
| 1 Corinthians 6:7 | Already it is altogether a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc2nd) another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? |
| 1 Corinthians 6:19 | Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, and you are not your (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc2nd) own? |
| 1 Corinthians 7:2 | But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own wife and each woman her own husband. |
| 1 Corinthians 7:37 | However, the man who stands firm in his resolve is under no compulsion but has control over his desire, and has determined this in his heart to keep her as his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) virgin, he will do well. |
| 1 Corinthians 7:38 | So then the one who marries his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) virgin does well, and the one who does not marry will do even better. |
| 1 Corinthians 10:24 | Let no one seek his (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd) own advantage, but that of the other. |
| 1 Corinthians 10:29 | I mean the conscience of the other person, not your own (heautou | ἑαυτοῦ | gen sg masc3rd). Why then should my liberty be determined by the conscience of another? |
| 1 Corinthians 11:28 | A person should examine himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd), then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:29 | For the one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd). |
| 1 Corinthians 11:31 | But if we had been examining ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc2nd), we would not come under judgment. |
| 1 Corinthians 13:5 | it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs, |
| 1 Corinthians 14:4 | The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself (heauton | ἑαυτόν | acc sg masc3rd), but the one who prophesies edifies the church. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:28 | But if there is no one who can interpret, the speaker should remain silent in church and speak to himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd) and to God. |
| 1 Corinthians 16:2 | On the first day of the week, each of you should put something aside as he may prosper and save it, so that when I come, collections will not have to be made. |
| 1 Corinthians 16:15 | You know that the household of Stephanus were the first converts in the province of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd) to the service of the saints. So I urge you, brothers, |
| 2 Corinthians 1:9 | Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc1st), that we should no longer trust in ourselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc1st), but in the God who raises the dead. |
| 2 Corinthians 3:1 | Are we beginning to recommend ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc1st) again? We do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? |
| 2 Corinthians 3:5 | Not that we are adequate in ourselves (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc1st) to consider anything as coming from us (heautōn | ἑαυτῶν | gen pl masc1st), but our adequacy comes from God, |
| 2 Corinthians 4:2 | But we have renounced shameful hidden deeds. We do not practice cunning, nor do we tamper with the word of God, but by the open declaration of truth we commend ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc3rd) to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. |
| 2 Corinthians 4:5 | For we do not proclaim ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc1st), but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc1st) as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:12 | For we are not again recommending ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc1st) to you but giving you an occasion to boast on our behalf, so that you may be able to answer those who boast of what is seen and not of what is in the heart. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:15 | And he died for all so that those who are living might no longer live for themselves (heautois | ἑαυτοῖς | dat pl masc3rd) but for the one who died for them and was raised. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:18 | And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd) through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation; |
| 2 Corinthians 5:19 | that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself (heautō | ἑαυτῷ | dat sg masc3rd), not counting their trespasses against them. And he has entrusted us with the message of reconciliation. |
| 2 Corinthians 6:4 | Rather, as servants of God, we commend ourselves (heautous | ἑαυτούς | acc pl masc1st) in every way: in great endurance, in times of affliction, hardship, and distress; |
Mnemonics
βασιλεία mnemonic
Princess Leia reigns in a kingdom.