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Greek word · G3195

μέλλω

mellō

to ensue

Appears 109 times in 106 verses of the Greek New Testament.

Where it appears

Matthew · 9
  1. Matthew 2:13 μέλλει is about

    When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

  2. Matthew 3:7 μελλούσης coming

    But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

  3. Matthew 11:14 μέλλων is being about

    And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.

  4. Matthew 12:32 μέλλοντι.¶ coming.

    Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.

  5. Matthew 16:27 μέλλει Is about

    For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

  6. Matthew 17:12 μέλλει is about

    But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him whatever they wished. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.”

  7. Matthew 17:22 μέλλει Is about

    When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.

  8. Matthew 20:22 μέλλω am about

    “You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” the brothers answered.

  9. Matthew 24:6 μελλήσετε You will begin

    You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Mark · 2
  1. Mark 10:32 μέλλοντα are being soon

    As they were going up the road to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. Again Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him:

  2. Mark 13:4 μέλλῃ may soon

    “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to be fulfilled?”

Luke · 12
  1. Luke 3:7 μελλούσης soon coming

    Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

  2. Luke 7:2 ἤμελλεν was about

    There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.

  3. Luke 9:31 ἤμελλεν He was soon

    They appeared in glory and spoke about His departure, which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

  4. Luke 9:44 μέλλει is soon

    “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”

  5. Luke 10:1 ἤμελλεν was soon

    After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.

  6. Luke 13:9 μέλλον. soon happening.

    If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”

  7. Luke 19:4 ἤμελλεν He was soon

    So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.

  8. Luke 19:11 μέλλει is about

    While the people were listening to this, Jesus proceeded to tell them a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God would appear imminently.

  9. Luke 21:7 μέλλῃ may soon be

    “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”

  10. Luke 21:36 μέλλοντα are soon

    So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

  11. Luke 22:23 μέλλων is about

    Then they began to question among themselves which of them was going to do this.

  12. Luke 24:21 μέλλων is about

    But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.

John · 12
  1. John 4:47 ἤμελλεν he was about

    When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

  2. John 6:6 ἔμελλεν He was about

    But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do.

  3. John 6:15 μέλλουσιν they are about

    Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.

  4. John 6:71 ἔμελλεν was about

    He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.

  5. John 7:35 μέλλει μέλλει is about, is He about

    At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

  6. John 7:39 ἔμελλον were about

    He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

  7. John 11:51 ἔμελλεν was about

    Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

  8. John 12:4 μέλλων is being about

    But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked,

  9. John 12:33 ἤμελλεν He was about

    He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.

  10. John 14:22 μέλλεις You are about

    Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

  11. John 18:32 ἤμελλεν He was about

    This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.

Acts · 34
  1. Acts 3:3 μέλλοντας being about

    When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.

  2. Acts 5:35 μέλλετε you are about

    “Men of Israel,” he said, “consider carefully what you are about to do to these men.

  3. Acts 11:28 μέλλειν to ensue

    One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

  4. Acts 12:6 ἤμελλεν was about

    On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

  5. Acts 13:34 μέλλοντα being about

    In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

  6. Acts 16:27 ἤμελλεν he was about

    When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.

  7. Acts 17:31 μέλλει He is about

    For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

  8. Acts 18:14 Μέλλοντος When is being about to

    But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio told the Jews, “If this matter involved a wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to hear your complaint.

  9. Acts 19:27 μέλλειν to be

    There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”

  10. Acts 20:3 μέλλοντι he being about

    where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

  11. Acts 20:7 μέλλων about

    On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.

  12. Acts 20:13 μέλλοντες μέλλων being about, readying

    We went on ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, where we were to take Paul aboard. He had arranged this because he was going there on foot.

  13. Acts 20:38 μέλλουσιν they are about

    They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

  14. Acts 21:27 ἔμελλον were about

    When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

  15. Acts 21:37 μέλλων Being about

    As they were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do you speak Greek?” he replied.

  16. Acts 22:16 μέλλεις; delay you?

    And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’

  17. Acts 22:26 μέλλεις are you going

    On hearing this, the centurion went and reported it to the commander. “What are you going to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”

  18. Acts 22:29 μέλλοντες being about

    At once those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.

  19. Acts 23:3 μέλλει is about

    Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”

  20. Acts 23:15 μέλλοντας being about

    Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”

  21. Acts 23:20 μέλλον it being about

    He answered, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul to the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of acquiring more information about him.

  22. Acts 23:27 μέλλοντα being about

    This man was seized by the Jews, and they were about to kill him when I came with my troops to rescue him. For I had learned that he is a Roman citizen,

  23. Acts 24:15 μέλλειν to ensue

    and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

  24. Acts 24:25 μέλλοντος is coming

    As Paul expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go for now. When I find the time, I will call for you.”

  25. Acts 25:4 μέλλειν ensuing

    But Festus replied, “Paul is being held in Caesarea, and I myself am going there soon.

  26. Acts 26:2 μέλλων being about

    “King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today to defend myself against all the accusations of the Jews,

  27. Acts 26:22 μελλόντων was about

    But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

  28. Acts 26:23 μέλλει He is about

    that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

  29. Acts 27:2 μέλλοντι being about

    We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

  30. Acts 27:10 μέλλειν ensuing

    “Men, I can see that our voyage will be filled with disaster and great loss, not only to ship and cargo, but to our own lives as well.”

  31. Acts 27:30 μελλόντων being about

    Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.

  32. Acts 27:33 ἤμελλεν was about

    Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.

  33. Acts 28:6 μέλλειν to be about

    The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

Romans · 5
  1. Romans 4:24 μέλλει it is about

    but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

  2. Romans 5:14 μέλλοντος. coming [One].

    Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

  3. Romans 8:13 μέλλετε you are about

    For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  4. Romans 8:18 μέλλουσαν coming

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

  5. Romans 8:38 μέλλοντα things to come

    For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

1 Corinthians · 1
  1. 1 Corinthians 3:22 μέλλοντα, things to come —

    whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

Galatians · 1
  1. Galatians 3:23 μέλλουσαν is being soon

    Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

Ephesians · 1
  1. Ephesians 1:21 μέλλοντι, coming,

    far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

Colossians · 1
  1. Colossians 2:17 μελλόντων, coming,

    These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

1 Thessalonians · 1
  1. 1 Thessalonians 3:4 μέλλομεν we are about

    Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.

1 Timothy · 3
  1. 1 Timothy 1:16 μελλόντων being about

    But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

  2. 1 Timothy 4:8 μελλούσης. is coming.

    For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

  3. 1 Timothy 6:19 μέλλον, future,

    treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

2 Timothy · 1
  1. 2 Timothy 4:1 μέλλοντος is being about

    I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

Hebrews · 9
  1. Hebrews 1:14 μέλλοντας being about

    Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

  2. Hebrews 2:5 μέλλουσαν is coming

    For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

  3. Hebrews 6:5 μέλλοντος [of the] coming

    who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

  4. Hebrews 8:5 μέλλων being about

    The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

  5. Hebrews 10:1 μελλόντων coming

    For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

  6. Hebrews 10:27 μέλλοντος being about

    but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

  7. Hebrews 11:8 ἤμελλεν he was going

    By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

  8. Hebrews 11:20 μελλόντων [the things] coming

    By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

  9. Hebrews 13:14 μέλλουσαν coming [one]

    For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

James · 1
  1. James 2:12 μέλλοντες being about

    Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.

1 Peter · 1
  1. 1 Peter 5:1 μελλούσης being about

    As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:

2 Peter · 2
  1. 2 Peter 1:12 μελλήσω I will be ready

    Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.

  2. 2 Peter 2:6 μελλόντων of what is coming on

    if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

Revelation · 13
  1. Revelation 1:19 μέλλει are about

    Therefore write down the things you have seen, the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.

  2. Revelation 2:10 μέλλεις μέλλει you are about, is about

    Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

  3. Revelation 3:2 ἔμελλον <they> were about

    Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

  4. Revelation 3:10 μελλούσης is being about

    Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

  5. Revelation 3:16 μέλλω I am about

    So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!

  6. Revelation 6:11 μέλλοντες being about

    Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

  7. Revelation 8:13 μελλόντων are being about

    And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”

  8. Revelation 10:4 ἤμελλον I was about

    When the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to put it in writing. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”

  9. Revelation 10:7 μέλλῃ he may soon

    But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.”

  10. Revelation 12:4 μελλούσης is being about

    His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, hurling them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.

  11. Revelation 12:5 μέλλει is about

    And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

  12. Revelation 17:8 μέλλει is about

    The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.

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