εἰ | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

εἰ

Definition

Erasmian

Modern

Frequency

502

1623

Mnemonic Singing

My gracious Redeemer,
my Savior art Thou,
if ever I love Thee,
my Jesus

Song

Notes

This is not the same as εἶ, which means “you are.” Watch the accents carefully, because εἰ does not have its own accent. Like ἐάν, εἰ always introduces a dependent clause, and therefore you will not find the main subject or verb of the sentence in the εἰ clause.

Biblical Concordance

2 Corinthians 5:17	Therefore if (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; what is old has passed away; behold, what is new has come!
2 Corinthians 7:8	For even if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I made you sad by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I did regret it — for I see that that letter did make you sad, though (ei \| εἰ \| conj) only for a short time —
2 Corinthians 7:12	So then, even though (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I wrote to you, it was not on account of the offender, nor on account of the one offended, but that your earnestness toward us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 7:14	For if (ei \| εἴ \| conj) I have boasted to him about anything regarding you, I have not been embarrassed, but just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boast to Titus about you has proved true.
2 Corinthians 8:12	For if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) the readiness is present, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a person has, not according to what he does not have.
2 Corinthians 10:7	You are looking at outward appearances. If (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone has persuaded himself that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.
2 Corinthians 11:4	For if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) one comes and proclaims a different Jesus whom we did not proclaim, or if you welcome a different spirit which you did not welcome, or a different gospel which you did not welcome, you put up with it easily.
2 Corinthians 11:6	But even if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I am an amateur in speaking, I am certainly not in knowledge. Rather, in every way we have made this plain to you as to all.
2 Corinthians 11:15	So it is no great surprise if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) his servants, too, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:16	Again I say, let no one think me foolish. But even if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
2 Corinthians 11:20	For you put up with it if (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone enslaves you, if (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone exploits you, if (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone takes advantage of you, if (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone puts on airs, if (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone strikes you in the face.
2 Corinthians 11:30	If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that display my weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:5	On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except (ei \| εἰ \| conj) in my weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:11	I am acting like a fool, but you drove me to it. I ought to be commended by you, for in no way am I inferior to the “super-apostles” — even though (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:13	For in what way were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except (ei \| εἰ \| conj) that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!
2 Corinthians 12:15	I will most gladly spend and be spent on behalf of your souls. If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I love you more, am I to be loved less?
2 Corinthians 13:5	Examine yourselves to see if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless (ei \| εἰ \| conj), of course, you fail the test!
Galatians 1:7	not that there is another gospel, but (ei \| εἰ \| conj) there are some who are trying to confuse you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 1:9	As we have said before, and now I say again: If (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone is preaching to you a gospel at odds with the one you have already received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:10	For am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:19	But I did not see any of the other apostles — except (ei \| εἰ \| conj) James, the Lord’s brother.
Galatians 2:14	But when I saw that they were not behaving in a manner consistent with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) you, born a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, by what right are you trying to make the Gentiles live like Jews?”
Galatians 2:17	But if (ei \| εἰ \| conj), while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Of course not!
Galatians 2:18	But if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I build up again those things I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a lawbreaker.
Galatians 2:21	I do not nullify the grace of God; for if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) righteousness could be gained through the law, then Christ died for nothing!