Word order

As the Gothic Bible is a word-for-word translation of the Greek original, we need to use the parts which couldn't be translated literally to know what the word order was like. The word order of Gothic is also very similar to the word order of other ancient Germanic languages.

The verse II Timothy 3.12 (they will suffer persecution) was translated as wrakos wrikkand (persecutions (object) - they suffer (verb) ).

1 Corinthians 1:20: Dwala gatawida (foolish - made)

John 6.63: Liban taujiþ (life (object) - makes (verb) )

The object is put before the verb, this also happened in other verses which weren't similar to the Greek.

When the object was a pronoun (he, she, I), the verb came first:

Matthew 27.5 (He hanged himself) was translated as Ushaihah sik. (hanged (verb) - himself (object) )

It is very likely that the verb preceded the object in Gothic, because this can also be seen in other Ancient Germanic languages:

Hildebrandslied, Old High German: garutun sê iro guðhamun (readied (verb) - they (object) - their (possessive pronoun) - battle-coverings (subject) )

Wh-interrogative phrases
In phrases which start with an interrogative wh-word, the verb is just as in other early Germanic languages directly put after the wh-word, this happens too when this doesn't happen in the Greek text, therefore we can say with some certainty that in native Gothic, the verb followed the wh-interrogative.

Luke 1.66: ƕa skuli (verb) þata barn wairþan?

In the main part of a sentence, the verb is put in the second place.

Although we aren't sure if the Skeireins is native Gothic, we can see that the verb is put after the wh-word too:

Skeireins 3.3: ƕaþar skuldedi maiza. (which of the two would be bigger)

It also occurs that the wh-interrogative is preceded by other words, but there is only one occurence which is not in agreement with the Greek, shown here, and this structure was not common in early Germanic:

Luke 14.28: Izwara ƕas raihtis wiljands kelikn timbrjan...?