2 Corinthians 6:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τίς δὲ συγκατάθεσις ναῷ Θεοῦ μετὰ εἰδώλων; ὑμεῖς γὰρ ναὸς Θεοῦ ἐστε ζῶντος· καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς, ὅτι Ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω· καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν Θεός, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι λαός.

Transliteration

What de synkatathesis for naō of Theou meta eidōlōn? you for naos of Theou este zōntos; kathōs eipen the Theos, that Enoikēsō in them, and emperipateēsō; and I esomai their Theos, and they esontai to me laos.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *synkatathesis*: nominative, feminine, singular - agreement/accord/approval
• *naō*: dative, masculine, singular - for temple
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *meta*: preposition + genitive - with
• *eidōlōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of idols
• *naos*: nominative, masculine, singular - temple
• *este*: present indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you are
• *zōntos*: present participle, active, genitive, masculine, singular - living/alive
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/according as
• *eipen*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
• *Enoikēsō*: future indicative, active, 1st person singular - I will dwell in
• *emperipateēsō*: future indicative, active, 1st person singular - I will walk among
• *esomai*: future indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I will be
• *esontai*: future indicative, middle, 3rd person plural - they will be
• *laos*: nominative, masculine, singular - people/nation

Word Meanings

• *synkatathesis*: agreement/accord/approval/consent
• *naō*: temple/sanctuary/shrine
• *eidōlōn*: idols/images/false gods
• *naos*: temple/sanctuary/shrine
• *zōntos*: living/alive/active
• *Enoikēsō*: I will dwell in/inhabit/live in
• *emperipateēsō*: I will walk among/walk in/move among
• *laos*: people/nation/population/community

Referenced Verses

• Exod 29:45 : 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Lev 26:12 : 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
• Ezek 37:26-27 : 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. 27 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Hos 2:23 : 23 I will sow her to me in the earth; And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; And I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' And they will say, 'My God!'"
• Zech 2:10-11 : 10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. 11 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me to you.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• Zech 8:8 : 8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."
• Jer 24:7 : 7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
• Zech 13:9 : 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
• Ezek 36:28 : 28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
• Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
• Rom 9:26 : 26 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
• 1 Cor 3:16-17 : 16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• John 6:56 : 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
• 1 John 4:15 : 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
• Exod 34:14 : 14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
• Deut 4:23-24 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you. 24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
• Exod 20:3 : 3 You shall have no other gods before me.
• Exod 23:13 : 13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.
• Ezek 43:7 : 7 He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
• Ezek 43:9 : 9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
• 1 John 5:20-21 : 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
• 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
• Rom 8:9 : 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
• Rev 2:1 : 1 To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:
• 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.
• Eph 2:20 : 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• Matt 6:24 : 24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
• 2 Kgs 23:5-7 : 5 He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the sky. 6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people. 7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
• 2 Chr 33:4-5 : 4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever. 5 He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
• Ps 90:1 : 1 > Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
• Deut 5:7 : 7 You shall have no other gods before me.
• Deut 6:14-15 : 14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you; 15 for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
• Josh 24:14-24 : 14 Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh. 15 If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh. 16 The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; 17 for Yahweh our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed; 18 and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God. 19 Joshua said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. 20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he has done you good. 21 The people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Yahweh. 22 Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. They said, We are witnesses. 23 Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel. 24 The people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we serve, and to his voice will we listen.
• 1 Sam 7:3-4 : 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. 4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
• 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.
• 2 Kgs 17:33-34 : 33 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. 34 To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
• 2 Kgs 21:4-5 : 4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
• Zeph 1:5 : 5 those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
• Hos 14:8 : 8 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; From me your fruit is found."