1 Corinthians 6:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὰ βρώματα τῇ κοιλίᾳ, καὶ ἡ κοιλία τοῖς βρώμασιν: ὁ δὲ Θεὸς καὶ ταύτην καὶ ταῦτα καταργήσει. Τὸ δὲ σῶμα οὐ τῇ πορνείᾳ, ἀλλὰ τῷ Κυρίῳ· καὶ ὁ Κύριος τῷ σώματι.

Transliteration

The brōmata for the koilia, and the koilia for the brōmasin: but ho Theos both this and these will katargēsei. But the sōma not for porneia, but for the Kyriō; and the Kyrios for the sōmati.

Grammar Details

• *Ta brōmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - foods
• *tē koilia*: dative, feminine, singular - for the stomach
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hē koilia*: nominative, feminine, singular - the stomach
• *tois brōmasin*: dative, neuter, plural - for the foods
• *ho de Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular + postpositive conjunction - but God
• *kai tautēn kai tauta*: both this and these
• *katargēsei*: future indicative, active, 3rd singular - will abolish/destroy
• *To de sōma*: nominative, neuter, singular + postpositive conjunction - but the body
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *tē porneia*: dative, feminine, singular - for sexual immorality
• *alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *tō Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - for the Lord
• *ho Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - the Lord
• *tō sōmati*: dative, neuter, singular - for the body

Word Meanings

• *brōmata*: foods/meats
• *koilia*: stomach/belly/appetite
• *katargēsei*: will destroy/abolish/bring to an end
• *sōma*: body/physical form
• *porneia*: sexual immorality/fornication
• *Kyrios*: Lord/master

Referenced Verses

• Matt 15:17 : 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
• 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• Rom 7:4 : 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
• Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
• Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
• Mark 7:19 : 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
• John 6:27 : 27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• John 6:49 : 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
• Col 2:22-23 : 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
• 1 Cor 10:3-5 : 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.