For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
ὁ
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Gloss:
(often not translated) the, this, that, who
Definition:
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ὁ δέ, the one the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
Greek-English Concordance for ὁ
1 Thessalonians 1:6 | And you became imitators of us and of the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord, for you accepted the (ton | τόν | acc sg masc) word in the midst of much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit. |
1 Thessalonians 1:7 | So you became an example for all the (tois | τοῖς | dat pl masc) believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. |
1 Thessalonians 1:8 | The (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) word of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord has echoed forth from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has become known, so we have no need to say anything. |
1 Thessalonians 1:9 | For they themselves report regarding us what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, |
1 Thessalonians 1:10 | and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the (tēs | τῆς | gen sg fem) coming wrath. |
1 Thessalonians 2:1 | For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. |
1 Thessalonians 2:2 | We had previously suffered and been shamefully treated in Philippi, as you know, but we had the courage in our God to declare to you the (to | τό | acc sg neut) gospel of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God in spite of great opposition. |
1 Thessalonians 2:3 | For our appeal was not based on deceit, nor did it rise from impure motives or by way of trickery, |
1 Thessalonians 2:4 | but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the (to | τό | acc sg neut) gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but God who (tō | τῷ | dat sg masc) tests our hearts. |
1 Thessalonians 2:7 | Although we could have made demands as apostles of Christ, we were gentle among you, like a mother tenderly nursing her own children. |
1 Thessalonians 2:8 | So deep was our affection for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the (to | τό | acc sg neut) gospel of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God but our own selves as well, so dear had you become to us. |
1 Thessalonians 2:9 | For you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so as not to become a burden to any of you, while proclaiming to you the (to | τό | acc sg neut) gospel of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God. |
1 Thessalonians 2:10 | You are witnesses, and so is God, how devout, upright, and blameless was our conduct toward you believers — |
1 Thessalonians 2:12 | So we exhorted you, encouraged you, and charged you to conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God, who (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) calls you into his own kingdom and glory. |
1 Thessalonians 2:13 | And for this reason we also constantly thank God, that when you received the word of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it truly is, the word of God, which even now is doing its work in you who (tois | τοῖς | dat pl masc) believe. |
1 Thessalonians 2:14 | For you, brothers, became imitators of the (tōn | τῶν | gen pl fem) churches of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God in Christ Jesus which (tōn | τῶν | gen pl fem) are in Judea; because you too suffered the (ta | τά | acc pl neut) same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) Jews, |
1 Thessalonians 2:15 | who (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) killed the (ton | τόν | acc sg masc) Lord Jesus and the (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) prophets, and have driven us out, who are displeasing to God and oppose all mankind, |
1 Thessalonians 2:16 | who prevent us from speaking to the (tois | τοῖς | dat pl neut) Gentiles that they might be saved. Their goal has always been to complete the full number of their sins. But God’s wrath has caught up with them at last! |
1 Thessalonians 2:17 | As for us, brothers, when we were separated from you for a short time — in person but not in heart — we were all the more eager, with intense longing, to see you in person. |
1 Thessalonians 2:18 | For we wanted to come to you — I, Paul, time and again — but Satan hindered us. |
1 Thessalonians 2:19 | For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not indeed you? |
1 Thessalonians 2:20 | Yes, you are our glory and joy! |
1 Thessalonians 3:2 | and we sent Timothy, our brother and coworker for (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God in the (tō | τῷ | dat sg neut) gospel of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Christ, to establish and encourage you in your faith, |
1 Thessalonians 3:3 | so (to | τό | acc sg neut) that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we were destined for this. |
1 Thessalonians 3:5 | So because I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) your faith; for fear that somehow the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) tempter had tempted you and our labor had been in vain. |
1 Thessalonians 3:6 | But just now Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) your faith and your love; and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us even as we long to see you. |
1 Thessalonians 3:7 | So in all our distress and affliction, brothers, we have been reassured about you by your faith. |
1 Thessalonians 3:9 | For what thanksgiving can we return to (tō | τῷ | dat sg masc) God for you, for all the (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) joy with which we rejoice before our God because of you? |
1 Thessalonians 3:10 | Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and supply what (ta | τά | acc pl neut) is lacking in (tēs | τῆς | gen sg fem) your faith. |
1 Thessalonians 3:11 | Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you. |
1 Thessalonians 3:12 | And may the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) Lord cause you to increase and abound in (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) love for one another and for all, even as we do for you, |
1 Thessalonians 3:13 | so as to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the (tē | τῇ | dat sg fem) coming of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) our Lord Jesus with all his saints. |
1 Thessalonians 4:1 | Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live so as to please God (even as you are doing), that you do so more and more. |
1 Thessalonians 4:2 | For you know what commands we gave you by the authority of the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord Jesus. |
1 Thessalonians 4:3 | For this is the will of (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) God — your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, |
1 Thessalonians 4:4 | that each of you learn how to maintain control over his own “vessel” in holiness and honor, |
1 Thessalonians 4:5 | not with the passion of lust, like the (ta | τά | nom pl neut) Gentiles who (ta | τά | nom pl neut) do not know God. |
1 Thessalonians 4:6 | No one should sin against or take advantage of his brother in this (tō | τῷ | dat sg neut) matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, as indeed we told you beforehand with solemn warning. |
1 Thessalonians 4:7 | For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. |
1 Thessalonians 4:8 | Consequently the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who (ton | τόν | acc sg masc) also has given his Holy Spirit to you. |
1 Thessalonians 4:9 | Now with regard to brotherly love you have no need for us to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God how to love one another. |
1 Thessalonians 4:10 | Indeed you do show love toward all the (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) brothers throughout Macedonia, but we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more. |
1 Thessalonians 4:11 | Make it your aim to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own affairs, and to work with (tais | ταῖς | dat pl fem) your own hands, as we commanded you. |
1 Thessalonians 4:12 | In this way you will live a proper life before outsiders and be dependent on no one. |
1 Thessalonians 4:13 | Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those (tōn | τῶν | gen pl masc) who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as others do who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) have no hope. |
1 Thessalonians 4:14 | For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also do we believe that God will bring with him those (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) who have fallen asleep in Jesus. |
1 Thessalonians 4:15 | For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) are alive, who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) remain behind until the (tēn | τήν | acc sg fem) coming of the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord, will by no means precede those (tous | τούς | acc pl masc) who have fallen asleep, |
1 Thessalonians 4:16 | because the (ho | ὁ | nom sg masc) Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) dead in Christ will rise first. |
1 Thessalonians 4:17 | Then we who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) are alive, who (hoi | οἱ | nom pl masc) remain behind, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the (tou | τοῦ | gen sg masc) Lord in the air. And so we will be forever with the Lord. |
1 Thessalonians 4:18 | So encourage one another with these words. |