1 Corinthians 15:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐκνήψατε δικαίως, καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτάνετε· ἀγνωσίαν γὰρ Θεοῦ τινες ἔχουσιν: πρὸς ἐντροπὴν ὑμῖν λέγω.

Transliteration

Eknēpsate dikaiōs, and not hamartanete; agnōsian gar Theou some echousin: pros entropēn hymin legō.

Grammar Details

• *eknēpsate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd plural - become sober/wake up
• *dikaiōs*: adverb - righteously/properly
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *hamartanete*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - sin
• *agnōsian*: accusative feminine singular - ignorance/lack of knowledge
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *tines*: indefinite pronoun, nominative masculine plural - some
• *echousin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - they have
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - toward
• *entropēn*: accusative feminine singular - shame/embarrassment
• *hymin*: personal pronoun, dative plural - to you
• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I speak/say

Word Meanings

• *eknēpsate*: wake up/become sober/return to sobriety
• *dikaiōs*: righteously/properly/as is right
• *hamartanete*: sin/miss the mark/err
• *agnōsian*: ignorance/lack of knowledge
• *Theou*: of God/God's
• *echousin*: have/possess/hold
• *pros entropēn*: to shame/to embarrassment/to move to shame
• *legō*: speak/say/tell

Referenced Verses

• Rom 13:11 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is {G2257} salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.
• 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I say [this] to move you to shame. What, {G3779} cannot there be [found] among you {G3761} one wise man who shall be able to decide {G303} between his brethren,
• John 5:14 : 14 Afterward {G5023} Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest {G3361} a worse thing befall thee.
• 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
• Heb 5:11-12 : 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. 12 For {G1063} when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
• John 8:11 : 11 And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, {G846} Neither do I condemn thee: go thy way; from henceforth sin no more.}}
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
• Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. {Selah}
• Ps 119:11 : 11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.
• Joel 1:5 : 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
• Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.