To fulfill
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G4135 is a verb whose six governed forms can describe matters fulfilled or fully established, a person fully persuaded or convinced, believers standing fully assured, a ministry fully carried out, and a message fully proclaimed. English renderings vary because voice, construction, and context distribute the fullness differently.
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G4135 is a verb whose six governed forms can describe matters fulfilled or fully established, a person fully persuaded or convinced, believers standing fully assured, a ministry fully carried out, and a message fully proclaimed. English renderings vary because voice, construction, and context distribute the fullness differently.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include being fully persuaded that (1), fulfill (1), fully assured (1), have been fulfilled (1), should be fully convinced (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 1:1. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Timothy (2), Romans (2), Colossians (1), Luke (1).
G4135 is a verb whose six governed forms can describe matters fulfilled or fully established, a person fully persuaded or convinced, believers standing fully assured, a ministry fully carried out, and a message fully proclaimed. English renderings vary because voice, construction, and context distribute the fullness differently. The lexical family contributes an idea of full measure or completion, but it does not make every conviction infallible or every task limitless.
Luke 1:1 introduces an orderly narrative amid accounts of events fulfilled or fully established among the community. The preface goes on to name eyewitness transmission and careful investigation, so confidence in the Gospel is not presented as contempt for history, evidence, or verification. Romans 4:21 describes Abraham fully persuaded that God was able to do what he had promised. The object is God's specific promise and ability, not a general law that intense certainty produces any desired outcome.
Romans 14:5 asks each person to be fully convinced concerning disputed days within a chapter governed by welcome, honor to the Lord, nonjudgment, conscience, and care not to destroy another. Colossians presents Epaphras praying for mature assurance in God's will. Second Timothy calls for fulfilling ministry and describes the message being fully proclaimed through the Lord's strengthening. These passages support responsible conviction and faithful service, not stubbornness, burnout, leader exceptionalism, secrecy, or refusal of correction.
Six governed forms connect fulfilled events, persuasion about God's promise, conscience-bound conviction, mature assurance, completed ministry, and full proclamation.
Fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised
Persuasion is anchored to God's expressed promise and ability.
Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind
The instruction concerns disputable observances inside a larger ethic of welcome, conscience, and neighbor-protecting love.
The message would be fully proclaimed
The Lord's strengthening serves the broad hearing of the message rather than the messenger's personal greatness.
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Greek word. To bring something to full measure or completion; to fully convince or assure someone
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
5 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I carry out fully, fully convince
Read verseI carry out fully, fully convince
Read verseI carry out fully, fully convince
Read verseI carry out fully, fully convince
Read verseI carry out fully, fully convince
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
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How this verb appears across 6 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
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πληροφορέω is built from these roots:
G4135 places fullness under an object and a calling. Luke joins received fulfillment to careful inquiry. Abraham is persuaded about what God actually promised. Romans 14 permits differing convictions only within welcome, accountability to the Lord, and love that refuses to injure a neighbor. Colossians seeks mature assurance through prayer. Second Timothy joins completed ministry and proclamation to sobriety, endurance, gospel service, and the Lord's strength.
Confidence is therefore neither vagueness nor self-certifying intensity. It is responsive to truth, evidence, Scripture, community, love, correction, and the limits of one's entrusted work. This distinction allows believers to act with settled faith while remaining humble, teachable, and alert to the difference between divine promise, faithful inference, personal conscience, and unsupported certainty.
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The six governed forms use six morphology labels: two middle or passive perfect participles, one aorist passive participle, a present middle or passive imperative, an aorist active imperative, and an aorist passive subjunctive. These forms help explain why translations speak of fulfilled events, persuaded people, assurance, completion, and full proclamation.
Scripture repeatedly grounds confidence in God's spoken promise and calls entrusted servants to complete assigned work. Those themes may illuminate these passages, but the verb itself does not turn every personal impression into a divine promise.