G1096–γίνομαι–ginomai

Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.

γένοιτο, genoito “would it be!”

Under utterly hopeless circumstances he hopefully believed, so that he might become the forefather of many nations, in agreement with the words "Equally numerous shall your posterity be."

γενέσθαι genesthai “to become”

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

γένοιτο. genoito “would it be!”

For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.

γεγόναμεν gegonamen “we have become”

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

γένοιτο. genoito “would it be!”

This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not

γένηται genētai “she shall become [married]”γενομένην genomenēn “having become [married]”

So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.

γενέσθαι genesthai “to belong”

What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said,

γένοιτο· genoito “would it be!”

Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulnes

ἐγένετο egeneto “became”γένοιτο, genoito “would it be!”γένηται genētai “may become”

What then are we to infer? That there is injustice in God?

γένοιτο. genoito “would it be!”

Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah."

ἐγενήθημεν egenēthēmen “we should have become”

And Isaiah, with strange boldness, exclaims, "I have been found by those who were not looking for Me, I have revealed Myself to those who were not inquiring of Me."

ἐγενόμην egenomēn “I became”

I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin.

γένοιτο. genoito “would it be!”

In the same way also at the present time there has come to be a remnant whom God in His grace has selected.

γέγονεν. gegonen “there has been.”

But if it is in His grace that He has selected them, then His choice is no longer determined by human actions. Otherwise grace would be grace no longer.

γίνεται ginetai “would be”

And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution.

γενηθήτω genēthētō “should be”

I ask, however, "Have they stumbled so as to be finally ruined?" No, indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come to the Gentiles in order to arouse the jealousy of the descendants of Israel;

γένοιτο. genoito “would it be!”

And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap of the root of the olive tree,

ἐγένου, egenou “you have become,”

For there is a truth, brethren, not revealed hitherto, of which I do not wish to leave you in ignorance, for fear you should attribute superior wisdom to yourselves--the truth, I mean, that partial blindness has fallen upon Israel until the great mass of

γέγονεν gegonen “has happened”

"Who has ever known the mind of the Lord, or shared His counsels?"

ἐγένετο; egeneto “has been?”

Have full sympathy with one another. Do not give your mind to high things, but let humble ways content you. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

γίνεσθε ginesthe “do be”

My meaning is that Christ has become a servant to the people of Israel in vindication of God's truthfulness-- in showing how sure are the promises made to our forefathers--

γεγενῆσθαι gegenēsthai “to have become”

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News so that the sacrifice--namely the Gentiles--may be acceptable to Him, being (as it is) an offering which the Holy Spirit has made holy

γένηται genētai “may become”

asking that I may escape unhurt from those in Judaea who are disobedient, and that the service which I am going to Jerusalem to render may be well received by the Church there,

γένηται, genētai “may become”

that you may receive her as a fellow Christian in a manner worthy of God's people, and may assist her in any matter in which she may need help. For she has indeed been a kind friend to many, including myself.

ἐγενήθη egenēthē “has been”