1 Corinthians 6:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

📖 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 are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
• 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.
• 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Phil 1:20 : 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
• 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
• Heb 9:12 : 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
• 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 have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
• Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: