2 Corinthians 13:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

📖 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 examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
• Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
• 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• Heb 12:15 : 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
• Gal 6:4 : 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
• Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
• Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God; but in 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 be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
• Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
• Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
• John 15:4 : 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved 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 LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
• 2 Cor 13:6-7 : 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Col 1:23 : 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
• Col 1:27 : 27 To whom God would 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 built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• Col 2:19 : 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
• 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
• 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 {G3739} Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
• Titus 1:13 : 13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
• 1 Cor 11:31 : 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath 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 the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
• Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Jer 6:30 : 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus saith the LORD 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, dwelleth 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 words: 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 did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
• 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 Cor 6:2 : 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
• 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?
• 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
• 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
• Rev 2:5 : 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
• Rev 3:2-3 : 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.