εἰς

eis

Greek G1519 Preposition 1,768 occurrences in 1,510 verses
εἰς toward

εἰς,

prep. with accusative,

expressing entrance, direction, limit, into, unto, to, upon, towards, for, among (Lat. in, with accusative).

I. Of place.

1. After verbs of motion;

(a) of entrance into: Mat.8:23, 9:7, Mrk.1:45, Luk.2:15, 8:31, al.;

(b) of approach, to or towards: Mrk.11:1, Luk.6:8, 19:28, Jhn.11:31, 21:6, al.;

(c) before pl. and collective nouns, among: Mrk.4:7, 8:19, 20, Luk.11:49, Jhn.21:23, al.;

(d) Of a limit reached, unto, on, upon: Mat.8:18, 21:1, Mrk.11:1, 13:16, Luk.14:10, Jhn.6:3, 11:32, al.; with accusative of person(s) (as in Ep. and Ion.), Act.23:15, Rom.5:12, 16:19, 2Co.10:14;

(e) elliptical: ἐπιστολαὶ εἰς Δαμασκόν, Act.9:2; ἡ διακονία μου ἡ εἰς Ἱ., Rom.15:31; metaphorically, of entrance into a certain state or condition, or of approach or direction towards some end (Thayer, B, i, 1; ii, 1), εἰς τ. ὄνομα, M, Pr., 200.

2. Of direction;

(a) after verbs of seeing: Mat.6:26, Mrk.6:41, Luk.9:16, 62, Jhn.13:22, al.; metaphorically, of the mind, Heb.11:26, 12:2, al.;

(b) after verbs of speaking: Mat.13:10, 14:9, 1Th.2:9, al.

3. After verbs of rest;

(a) in "pregnant" construction, implying previous motion (cl.; see WM, 516; Bl., §39, 3; M, Pr., 234f.): Mat.2:23, 4:13, 2Th.2:4, 2Ti.1:11, Heb.11:9, al.;

(b) by an assimilation general in late Gk (see Bl., M, Pr., ll. with) = ἐν: Luk.1:44, 4:23, Act.20:16, 21:17, Jhn.1:18 (but see Westc, in l.), al.

II. Of time, for, unto;

1. accentuating the duration expressed by the accusative: εἰς τ. αἰῶνα, Mat.21:19; εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γ., Luk.1:50; εἰς τ. διηνεκές, Heb.7:3, al.

2. Of a point or limit of time, unto, up to, until: Mat.6:34, Act.4:3, 25:21, Php.1:10, 2:16, 1Th.4:15, 2Ti.1:12; of entrance into a future period, σεις τὸ μέλλον (see: μέλλω), next (year), Luk.13:9 (but with ICC, in l.); εἰς τ. μεταξὺ σάββατον, on the next Sabbath, Act.13:42; εἰς τὸ πάλιν (see: πάλιν, 2Co.13:2.

III. Of result, after verbs of changing, joining, dividing, etc.: στρέφειν εἰς, Rev.11:6; μετας-, Act.2:20, Jas.4:9; μεταλλάσσειν, Rom.1:26; σχίζειν εἰς δύο, Mat.27:51, al.; predicatively with εἴναι, Act.8:23.

IV. Of relation, to, towards, for, in regard to (so in cl., but more frequently in late Gk., εἰς encroaching on the simple dative, which it has wholly displaced in MGr.; Jannaris, Gr., §1541; Robertson, Gr., 594; Deiss., BS, 117f.): Luk.7:30, Rom.4:20, 15:2, 26, 1Co.16:1, Eph.3:16, al.; ἀγάπη εἰς, Rom.5:8, al.; χρηστός, Eph.4:32; φρονεῖν εἰς, Rom.12:16; θαρρεῖν, 2Co.10:1.

V. Of the end or object: εὔθετος εἰς, Luk.14:34; σόφος, Rom.16:19; ἰσχύειν, Mat.5:13; εἰς τοῦτο, Mrk.1:38, al.; ἀφορίζειν εἰς, Rom.1:1; indicating purpose, εἰς φόβον, Rom.8:15; εἰς ἔνδειξιν, Rom.3:25; εἰς τό, with inf. (= ἵνα or ὥστε; Bl., §71, 5; M, Pr., 218ff.): Mat.20:19, Rom.1:11, 1Co.9:18, al.

VI. Adverbial phrases: εἰς τέλος, εἰς τὸ πάλιν, etc (see: τέλος, πάλιν, etc.).

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  1. Acts 28:14 εἰς

    There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.

  2. Acts 28:15 εἰς

    The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.

  3. Acts 28:16 εἰς

    When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

  4. Acts 28:17 εἰς

    After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

  5. Acts 28:23 εἰς

    So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

  6. Romans 1:1 εἰς

    Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

  7. Romans 1:5 εἰς

    Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

  8. Romans 1:11 εἰς

    For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

  9. Romans 1:16 εἰς

    I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

  10. Romans 1:17 εἰς

    For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

  11. Romans 1:20 εἰς

    For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

  12. Romans 1:24 εἰς

    Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

  13. Romans 1:25 εἰς

    They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

  14. Romans 1:26 εἰςεἰς

    For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

  15. Romans 1:27 εἰς

    Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

  16. Romans 1:28 εἰς

    Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

  17. Romans 2:4 εἰς

    Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

  18. Romans 2:26 εἰς

    If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

  19. Romans 3:7 εἰς

    However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

  20. Romans 3:22 εἰς

    And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

  21. Romans 3:25 εἰς

    God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

  22. Romans 3:26 εἰς

    He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

  23. Romans 4:3 εἰς

    For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

  24. Romans 4:5 εἰς

    However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

  25. Romans 4:9 εἰς

    Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.

  26. Romans 4:11 εἰςεἰς

    And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

  27. Romans 4:16 εἰς

    Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

  28. Romans 4:18 εἰς

    Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

  29. Romans 4:20 εἰς

    Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

  30. Romans 4:22 εἰς

    This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

  31. Romans 5:2 εἰς

    through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

  32. Romans 5:8 εἰς

    But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  33. Romans 5:12 εἰςεἰς

    Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

  34. Romans 5:15 εἰς

    But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!

  35. Romans 5:16 εἰςεἰς

    Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.

  36. Romans 5:18 εἰςεἰςεἰςεἰς

    So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

  37. Romans 5:21 εἰς

    so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  38. Romans 6:3 εἰςεἰς

    Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

  39. Romans 6:4 εἰς

    We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

  40. Romans 6:12 εἰς

    Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

  41. Romans 6:16 εἰςεἰςεἰς

    Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?

  42. Romans 6:17 εἰς

    But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

  43. Romans 6:19 εἰςεἰς

    I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

  44. Romans 6:22 εἰς

    But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

  45. Romans 7:4 εἰς

    Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

  46. Romans 7:5 εἰς

    For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

  47. Romans 7:10 εἰςεἰς

    So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

  48. Romans 8:7 εἰς

    because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

  49. Romans 8:15 εἰς

    For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

  50. Romans 8:18 εἰς

    I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.

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