2 Corinthians 13:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be {G5100} reprobate.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἑαυτοὺς πειράζετε, εἰ ἐστὲ ἐν τῇ πίστει· ἑαυτοὺς δοκιμάζετε. Ἢ οὐκ ἐπιγινώσκετε ἑαυτοὺς, ὅτι Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν, ἐστίν εἰ μήτι ἀδόκιμοί ἐστε;

Transliteration

Heautous peirazete, ei este en tē pistei; heautous dokimazete. Ē ouk epiginōskete heautous, hoti Iēsous Christos en you, estin ei mēti adokimoi este?

Grammar Details

• *Heautous*: reflexive pronoun, accusative, masculine, plural - yourselves
• *peirazete*: present, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - test/examine
• *ei*: conditional particle - if/whether
• *este*: present, indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you are
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *tē pistei*: article + noun, dative, feminine, singular - the faith
• *dokimazete*: present, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - prove/examine
• *Ē*: disjunctive particle - or
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *epiginōskete*: present, indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you recognize/know
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *Iēsous Christos*: Jesus Christ, nominative, masculine, singular
• *estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - is
• *ei mēti*: conditional + negative particles - unless
• *adokimoi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - unapproved/failing the test

Word Meanings

• *peirazete*: test/examine/try
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust
• *dokimazete*: examine/prove/test/approve
• *epiginōskete*: recognize/fully know/acknowledge
• *adokimoi*: unapproved/disqualified/failed/counterfeit

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 11:28 : 28 But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
• Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
• 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, {G4458} after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby {G1223} the many be defiled;
• Gal 6:4 : 4 But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until {G3739} Christ be formed in you—
• Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
• Ps 119:59 : 59 I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
• Rom 8:10 : 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
• Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
• Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
• John 15:4 : 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot {G3756} bear fruit of itself, except {G3361} it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except {G3361} ye abide in me.
• John 17:26 : 26 and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
• Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
• Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.
• 2 Cor 13:6-7 : 6 But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate. 7 Now we pray to God that ye {G3361} do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.
• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Col 1:23 : 23 if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.
• Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding {G846} in thanksgiving.
• Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.
• 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
• 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
• Titus 1:13 : 13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
• 1 Cor 11:31 : 31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not {G302} be judged.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Titus 2:2 : 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
• Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Jer 6:30 : 30 Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
• John 6:6 : 6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
• John 6:56 : 56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
• 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;
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; {G2532} that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
• 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
• 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye {G3432} {G2532} adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever {G302} therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
• 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, 5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.
• 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 because if our heart {G3754} condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;
• Rev 2:5 : 5 Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, {G5035} and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.
• Rev 3:2-3 : 2 Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God. 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep [it], and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come {G1909} {G4571} as a thief, and thou shalt not {G3361} know what hour I will come upon thee.