1 Corinthians 6:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἠγοράσθητε γὰρ τιμῆς: δοξάσατε δὴ τὸν Θεὸν ἐν τῷ σώματι ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐν τῷ πνεύματι ὑμῶν, ἅτινά ἐστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

You were ēgorasthēte for timēs: doxasate therefore the Theon in the sōmati of you, and in the pneumati of you, which are of the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *Ēgorasthēte*: aorist indicative, passive, 2nd plural - you were bought
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *timēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of a price
• *doxasate*: aorist imperative, active, 2nd plural - glorify
• *dē*: emphatic particle - therefore/indeed
• *ton Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *tō sōmati*: dative, neuter, singular - the body
• *hymōn*: genitive, 2nd plural, personal pronoun - of you
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *tō pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - the spirit
• *hatina*: nominative, neuter, plural, relative pronoun - which
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is/are
• *tou Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *ēgorasthēte*: were bought/were purchased
• *timēs*: price/value/honor
• *doxasate*: glorify/honor/praise
• *sōmati*: body/physical form
• *pneumati*: spirit/breath/inner being

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 7:23 : 23 Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.
• 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed {G3767} unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.
• Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
• 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• Heb 9:12 : 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.
• 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
• Rom 6:19 : 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
• Matt 5:16 : 16 Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: