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Matthew 5:10 ἕνεκεν on account of

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Here: Names the cause of the persecution, and this limits the promise. Suffering in general does not qualify. It has to be suffering brought on by righteousness.

Matthew 5:11 ἕνεκεν on account of

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

Here: Gives the real cause of the hostility. It repeats the 'because of' of verse 10.

Matthew 10:18 ἕνεκεν on account of

On My account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

Here: Gives the cause. The charge, in the end, is their link to Jesus.

Matthew 10:39 ἕνεκεν on account of

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Here: Gives the reason. Only loss suffered because of Jesus is meant, not any loss or sacrifice in general.

Matthew 16:25 ἕνεκεν on account of

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Here: Gives the reason or cause. The loss counts because of whom it is for, not because suffering has value in itself.

Matthew 19:5 ἕνεκα On account of

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

Here: 'On account of.' It introduces the reason behind the man's leaving and joining.

Matthew 19:29 ἕνεκεν for the sake of

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Here: Gives the motive that qualifies someone for the promise. The leaving has to be done because of Jesus, not as self-denial for its own sake.

Mark 8:35 ἕνεκεν on account of

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.

Here: This names the reason for the loss. The verse is not praising loss for its own sake. The loss counts because it happens because of Jesus and the message.

Mark 10:7 ἕνεκεν On account of

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

Mark 10:29 ἕνεκεν because

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

Here: Gives the reason for the leaving. Only leaving done for Jesus and the good news is meant. Hardship as such, or walking away from family obligations for other reasons, is not.

Mark 13:9 ἕνεκεν because

So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

Here: Gives the cause of the trials: their tie to Jesus.

Luke 4:18 εἵνεκεν because

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

Here: With οὗ it means 'because'. It translates Hebrew yaʿan ('because') in Isaiah 61:1: the Spirit is on him because God has anointed him. The anointing and the Spirit are one event.

Luke 6:22 ἕνεκα on account of

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

Here: Gives the cause. This is the key condition: the blessing applies when the hostility comes because of the Son of Man, not for any other reason.

Luke 9:24 ἕνεκεν on account of

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Here: 'Because of' or 'for the sake of'. It names the cause and loyalty behind the loss. Loss as such is not praised. Loss that comes from belonging to Jesus is.

Luke 18:29 ἕνεκεν for the sake of

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

Here: Gives the reason for the leaving. The promise is for leaving done for God’s reign, not for leaving in general.

Luke 21:12 ἕνεκεν on account of

But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.

Here: Gives the reason for everything listed: arrest, pursuit, being handed over, custody and trials.

Acts 19:32 ἕνεκα cause

Meanwhile the assembly was in turmoil. Some were shouting one thing and some another, and most of them did not even know why they were there.

Acts 26:21 ἕνεκα On account of

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

Here: Comes first in the sentence for emphasis. It names the cause: the attack happened because of what Paul has just described, and Paul implies there was no other reason.

Acts 28:20 ἕνεκεν because of

So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Here: "On account of, for the sake of." It gives the real reason he is a prisoner. It can carry the further sense "for the cause of": he wears the chain *for* Israel's hope, not only *because of* it.

Romans 8:36 ἕνεκεν For the sake

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Here: Gives the cause. The suffering happens because of loyalty to 'you'. It is not punishment for wrongdoing.

Romans 14:20 ἕνεκεν for the sake of

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

Here: Gives the motive or the price: food is what someone is willing to give up God's work for. It is put first in the Greek for emphasis: 'for the sake of food, of all things.'

2 Corinthians 3:10 εἵνεκεν on account of

Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.

Here: Gives the cause of the eclipse. The old glory became 'no glory' because of the greater glory, not because of any defect of its own.

2 Corinthians 7:12 ἕνεκεν ἕνεκεν ἕνεκεν for the sake of

So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.