2 Corinthians 10:4

World English Bible (2000)

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

(Τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων·) ⋄Λογισμούς καθαιροῦντες,

Transliteration

(The Ta gar hopla of the tēs strateias of us hēmōn not ou sarkika, but alla dunata to the tō Theō for pros kathairesin ochurōmatōn;) Logismous kathairountes,

Grammar Details

• *Ta*: nominative/accusative, neuter, plural article - the
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *hopla*: nominative/accusative, neuter, plural - weapons/tools/equipment
• *tēs*: genitive, feminine, singular article - the
• *strateias*: genitive, feminine, singular - warfare/campaign/expedition
• *hēmōn*: genitive, plural personal pronoun - of us/our
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *sarkika*: nominative, neuter, plural adjective - fleshly/carnal
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *dunata*: nominative, neuter, plural adjective - powerful/mighty/able
• *tō*: dative, masculine, singular article - the
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - God
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - for/toward
• *kathairesin*: accusative, feminine, singular - demolition/destruction/tearing down
• *ochurōmatōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - strongholds/fortresses
• *Logismous*: accusative, masculine, plural - reasonings/thoughts/arguments
• *kathairountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - demolishing/destroying/tearing down

Word Meanings

• *hopla*: weapons/tools/equipment/armor
• *strateias*: warfare/campaign/expedition/military service
• *sarkika*: fleshly/carnal/worldly/human
• *dunata*: powerful/mighty/able/strong
• *Theō*: God/deity
• *kathairesin*: demolition/destruction/pulling down/removal
• *ochurōmatōn*: strongholds/fortresses/fortifications
• *Logismous*: reasonings/thoughts/arguments/speculations
• *kathairountes*: demolishing/destroying/tearing down/removing

Referenced Verses

• Jer 1:10 : 10 Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
• 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• 2 Cor 13:3-4 : 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you. 4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
• 1 Cor 2:5 : 5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
• 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
• 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:
• 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Isa 41:14-16 : 14 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
• 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
• Josh 6:20 : 20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
• 1 Sam 17:45-50 : 45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand." 48 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
• Heb 11:30 : 30 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
• Heb 11:32-33 : 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,
• 2 Tim 2:3 : 3 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
• Ps 110:2 : 2 Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.
• Isa 30:25 : 25 There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
• Judg 7:13-23 : 13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat." 14 His fellow answered, "This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army." 15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, "Arise; for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!" 16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. 17 He said to them, "Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do. 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, 'For Yahweh and for Gideon!'" 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!" 21 They stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight. 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.
• Judg 15:14-16 : 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith. 16 Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."
• Zech 4:6-7 : 6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of Armies. 7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to it!'"
• Acts 7:22 : 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• Rom 13:12 : 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
• 1 Cor 1:18-24 : 18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. 22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
• 1 Cor 9:7 : 7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?
• 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.