14 Bless your persecutors – bless and never curse.
Romans 12
Open English Bible, US Edition, Verse 14
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Romans 12:14. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Εὐλογεῖτε τοὺς διώκοντας ὑμᾶς· εὐλογεῖτε, καὶ μὴ καταρᾶσθε.
Εὐλογεῖτε
τοὺς
διώκοντας
ὑμᾶς
εὐλογεῖτε
καὶ
μὴ
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
εὐλογεῖτε τοὺς διώκοντας ὑμᾶς, εὐλογεῖτε καὶ μὴ καταρᾶσθε.
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܒܪܟܘ ܠܪܕܘܦܝܟܘܢ ܒܪܟܘ ܘܠܐ ܬܠܘܛܘܢ
ܒܪܟܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܪܟܘ
- Transliteration
- brkw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 3
ܠܪܕܘܦܝܟܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܪܕܘܦܝܟܘܢ
- Transliteration
- lrdwpykwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 1
ܒܪܟܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܪܟܘ
- Transliteration
- brkw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 3
ܘܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܠܐ
- Transliteration
- wl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 732
ܬܠܘܛܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܬܠܘܛܘܢ
- Transliteration
- tlwtwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 1
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Benedicite persequentibus vos: benedicite, et nolite maledicere.
benedicite
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- benedico
- Transliteration
- benedicite
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 418
persequentibus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- persequor
- Transliteration
- persequentibus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 182
benedicite
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- benedico
- Transliteration
- benedicite
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 418
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
nolite
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nolo
- Transliteration
- nolite
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 620
maledicere
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- maledico
- Transliteration
- maledicere
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 142
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
1 Peter 3:9
never returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, blessing. It was to this that you were called – to obtain a blessing!
27 relevance votesMatthew 5:44
But what I tell you is this: love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
23 relevance votes1 Thessalonians 5:15
Take care that none of you ever pays back wrong for wrong, but always follow the kindest course with one another and with everyone.
20 relevance votesRomans 12:21
Never be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.
18 relevance votesLuke 6:28
bless those who curse you, pray for those who insult you.
17 relevance votesJames 3:10
From the very same mouth come blessings and curses! My friends, it is not right that this should be so.
16 relevance votesLuke 23:34
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing.” His clothes they divided among them by casting lots.
15 relevance votesActs 7:60
Falling on his knees, he called out loudly, “Lord! Do not charge them with this sin;” and with these words he fell asleep.
12 relevance votes