2 Corinthians 6:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τίς δὲ συγκατάθεσις ναῷ Θεοῦ μετὰ εἰδώλων; ὑμεῖς γὰρ ναὸς Θεοῦ ἐστε ζῶντος· καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς, ὅτι Ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω· καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν Θεός, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι λαός.

Transliteration

What de synkatathesis for naō of Theou meta eidōlōn? you for naos of Theou este zōntos; kathōs eipen the Theos, that Enoikēsō in them, and emperipateēsō; and I esomai their Theos, and they esontai to me laos.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *synkatathesis*: nominative, feminine, singular - agreement/accord/approval
• *naō*: dative, masculine, singular - for temple
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *meta*: preposition + genitive - with
• *eidōlōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of idols
• *naos*: nominative, masculine, singular - temple
• *este*: present indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you are
• *zōntos*: present participle, active, genitive, masculine, singular - living/alive
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/according as
• *eipen*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
• *Enoikēsō*: future indicative, active, 1st person singular - I will dwell in
• *emperipateēsō*: future indicative, active, 1st person singular - I will walk among
• *esomai*: future indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I will be
• *esontai*: future indicative, middle, 3rd person plural - they will be
• *laos*: nominative, masculine, singular - people/nation

Word Meanings

• *synkatathesis*: agreement/accord/approval/consent
• *naō*: temple/sanctuary/shrine
• *eidōlōn*: idols/images/false gods
• *naos*: temple/sanctuary/shrine
• *zōntos*: living/alive/active
• *Enoikēsō*: I will dwell in/inhabit/live in
• *emperipateēsō*: I will walk among/walk in/move among
• *laos*: people/nation/population/community

Referenced Verses

• Exod 29:45 : 45 Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
• Lev 26:12 : 12 And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
• Ezek 37:26-27 : 26 And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever. 27 And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Hos 2:23 : 23 And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
• Zech 2:10-11 : 10 Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord. 11 Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• Zech 8:8 : 8 And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.
• Jer 24:7 : 7 And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
• Ezek 36:28 : 28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
• Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.
• Rom 9:26 : 26 And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.
• 1 Cor 3:16-17 : 16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you? 17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
• John 6:56 : 56 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.
• 1 John 4:15 : 15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
• Exod 34:14 : 14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.
• Deut 4:23-24 : 23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you. 24 For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.
• Exod 20:3 : 3 You are to have no other gods but me.
• Exod 23:13 : 13 Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.
• Ezek 43:7 : 7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;
• Ezek 43:9 : 9 Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever.
• 1 John 5:20-21 : 20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:
• 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thing which was given to you keep safe, through the Holy Spirit which is in us.
• Rom 8:9 : 9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
• Rev 2:1 : 1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus say: These things says he who has the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the middle of the seven gold lights:
• Ezek 36:25 : 25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.
• Eph 2:20 : 20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
• Matt 6:24 : 24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
• 2 Kgs 23:5-7 : 5 And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven. 6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest. 7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.
• 2 Chr 33:4-5 : 4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever. 5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
• Ps 90:1 : 1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.
• Deut 5:7 : 7 You are to have no other gods but me.
• Deut 6:14-15 : 14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you; 15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.
• Josh 24:14-24 : 14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord. 15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord. 16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods; 17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went: 18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins. 20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good. 21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord. 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel. 24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
• 1 Sam 7:3-4 : 3 Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines. 4 So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.
• 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
• 2 Kgs 17:33-34 : 33 They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners. 34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;
• 2 Kgs 21:4-5 : 4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
• Zeph 1:5 : 5 And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
• Hos 14:8 : 8 They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon.