As a way to prepare for Easter, I invite you to join me on a 58 day journey through the 58 verses of 1 Corinthians 15 in Greek. At this point, there will no longer be any videos or PowerPoint PDFs, though I may finish those at some later time in the future.

1 Corinthians 15:57

57 τῷ δὲ θεῷ χάρις τῷ διδόντι ἡμῖν τὸ νῖκος διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

57 But grace (be) to God who gives the victory to us through our Lord Jesus Christ!

τῷ…θεῷ – dat. ind. obj.

…δὲ… – contrastive conj. [W671-72].

χάρις – nom. subj. of an elliptical sentence implying an optative copula: “O may it be!” Also, χάρις (“grace”) is the Greek way to say “thanks.”

τῷ διδόντι – art-adj-attr-ptc [pres-act-ptc-masc-sg-dat-δίδωμι; W617-19].

ἡμῖν – dat. ind. obj. of τῷ διδόντι.

τὸ νῖκος – acc. dir. obj. of τῷ διδόντι.

διὰ τοῦ κυρίου – prep. phrase.

ἡμῶν – obj. gen. “The Lord rules us.” [W116-19].

Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. – gen. in simple apposition [W94].