1 Corinthians 6:11

World English Bible (2000)

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ταῦτά τινες ἦτε: ἀλλὰ ἀπελούσασθε, ἀλλὰ ἡγιάσθητε, ἀλλʼ ἐδικαιώθητε ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

And these things some ēte: but you apelousasthe, but you hēgiasthēte, but you edikaiōthēte in the onomati of the Kyriou Iēsou, and in the Pneumati of the Theou of us.

Grammar Details

• *Kai*: conjunction - and
• *tauta*: accusative, neuter, plural, demonstrative pronoun - these things
• *tines*: nominative, masculine, plural, indefinite pronoun - some
• *ēte*: imperfect indicative, 2nd plural - you were
• *alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *apelousasthe*: aorist indicative, middle, 2nd plural - you washed yourselves/were washed
• *hēgiasthēte*: aorist indicative, passive, 2nd plural - you were sanctified
• *edikaiōthēte*: aorist indicative, passive, 2nd plural - you were justified
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *onomati*: dative, neuter, singular - name
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Lord
• *Iēsou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *hēmōn*: genitive, 1st plural, personal pronoun - of us

Word Meanings

• *apelousasthe*: you were washed/cleansed/purified
• *hēgiasthēte*: you were sanctified/made holy/set apart
• *edikaiōthēte*: you were justified/declared righteous
• *onomati*: name/authority
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/breath

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
• Eph 5:26 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
• Acts 22:16 : 16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
• Heb 10:22 : 22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
• Rom 8:30 : 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
• Col 3:5-7 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• Rom 8:33 : 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
• Rom 5:1 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Rom 5:9 : 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.
• Rom 6:17-19 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered. 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
• Rom 3:24 : 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
• Rom 3:26-30 : 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. 27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
• Rom 4:5 : 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
• Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
• Ps 51:7 : 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
• Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
• Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
• Isa 45:25 : 25 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
• Isa 53:11 : 11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
• Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
• Ezek 36:25 : 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
• John 13:10 : 10 Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you."
• Acts 13:39 : 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Rev 7:14 : 14 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Titus 3:3-7 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Heb 2:11 : 11 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
• Gal 2:16 : 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
• Gal 3:8 : 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
• Gal 3:11 : 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."
• Gal 3:24 : 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
• Eph 2:1-3 : 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Eph 4:17-22 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; 19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ that way; 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Eph 5:8 : 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Jas 2:21-26 : 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.