1 Corinthians 16:13

World English Bible (2000)

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Γρηγορεῖτε, στήκετε ἐν τῇ πίστει, ἀνδρίζεσθε, κραταιοῦσθε.

Transliteration

Grēgoreite, stēkete en tē pistei, andrizesthe, krataiousthe.

Grammar Details

• *Grēgoreite*: present, imperative, active, 2nd person, plural - watch/be alert
• *stēkete*: present, imperative, active, 2nd person, plural - stand firm/stand fast
• *en tē pistei*: preposition + dative, feminine, singular - in the faith
• *andrizesthe*: present, imperative, middle, 2nd person, plural - be courageous/act like men
• *krataiousthe*: present, imperative, passive, 2nd person, plural - be strengthened/be made strong

Word Meanings

• *Grēgoreite*: watch/be alert/be vigilant/stay awake
• *stēkete*: stand firm/stand fast/persevere
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust
• *andrizesthe*: be courageous/act like men/be brave
• *krataiousthe*: be strengthened/be made strong/be mighty

Referenced Verses

• Josh 1:9 : 9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."
• Eph 6:10 : 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
• Eph 6:13-18 : 13 Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace; 16 above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
• Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• 2 Thess 2:15 : 15 So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
• 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• Phil 4:1 : 1 Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
• Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
• Josh 1:6-7 : 6 "Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
• Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. By David.
• 1 Cor 15:1-2 : 1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
• 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
• 2 Sam 10:12 : 12 Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and Yahweh do that which seems good to him."
• Isa 35:4 : 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.
• 1 Chr 28:10 : 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."
• Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is. 34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. 35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; 36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. 37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
• 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
• 2 Tim 2:3-5 : 3 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
• Col 4:2 : 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Col 1:23 : 23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
• 1 Cor 9:25-27 : 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• Matt 26:41 : 41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
• Dan 10:19 : 19 He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me."
• 1 Sam 4:9 : 9 Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!"
• 1 Thess 5:6 : 6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
• Heb 11:32-34 : 32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets; 33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
• Rev 16:15 : 15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
• Mark 14:37-38 : 37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
• 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
• Eph 3:16 : 16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
• 1 Kgs 2:2 : 2 "I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
• Zech 8:9 : 9 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
• Zech 8:13 : 13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
• Matt 24:42-44 : 42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
• Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
• 2 Tim 2:1 : 1 You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
• Col 1:11-12 : 11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Luke 12:35-40 : 35 "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. 36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. 38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
• 1 Chr 19:13 : 13 Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him."
• Josh 1:18 : 18 Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn't listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous."
• Dan 11:32 : 32 Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits].
• Rev 3:2-3 : 2 Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• Hag 2:4 : 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says Yahweh. 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says Yahweh, 'and work, for I am with you,' says Yahweh of Armies.
• Luke 21:36 : 36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."