1 Corinthians 13:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐκ ἀσχημονεῖ, οὐ ζητεῖ τὰ ἑαυτῆς, οὐ παροξύνεται, οὐ λογίζεται τὸ κακόν·

Transliteration

Not aschēmonei, not zētei the things of heautēs, not paroxynetai, not logizetai the kakon;

Grammar Details

• *Ouk*: negative particle - not
• *aschēmonei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - behaves unseemly/unbecomingly
• *zētei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - seeks/looks for
• *ta*: accusative, neuter, plural article - the things
• *heautēs*: genitive, feminine, singular, reflexive pronoun - of itself/her own
• *paroxynetai*: present, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - is provoked/irritated
• *logizetai*: present, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - reckons/counts/calculates
• *to*: accusative, neuter, singular article - the
• *kakon*: accusative, neuter, singular - evil/bad thing

Word Meanings

• *aschēmonei*: behaves unseemly/acts improperly/is indecent
• *zētei*: seeks/pursues/looks for
• *heautēs*: of itself/her own/for itself
• *paroxynetai*: is provoked/irritated/angered/exasperated
• *logizetai*: reckons/counts/calculates/keeps account of
• *kakon*: evil/wrong/bad/harm

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 let no one seek his own -- but each another's.
• Phil 2:21 : 21 for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,
• Jas 1:19 : 19 So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
• 1 John 3:16-17 : 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?
• Phil 4:8 : 8 As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as `are' grave, as many as `are' righteous, as many as `are' pure, as many as `are' lovely, as many as `are' of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;
• 2 Thess 3:7 : 7 for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;
• 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.
• 2 Sam 10:3 : 3 And the heads of the Bene-Ammon say unto Hanun their lord, `Is David honouring thy father in thine eyes because he hath sent to thee comforters? for to search the city, and to spy it, and to overthrow it, hath not David sent his servants unto thee?'
• Job 21:27 : 27 Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
• Ps 106:32-33 : 32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes, 33 For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
• Prov 14:17 : 17 Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.
• Isa 3:5 : 5 And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.
• Jer 11:19 : 19 And I `am' as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.
• Jer 18:18-20 : 18 And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words. 19 Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me. 20 Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.
• Jer 40:13-16 : 13 And Johanan son of Kareah, and all the heads of the forces that `are' in the field, have come in unto Gedaliah to Mizpah, 14 and they say unto him, `Dost thou really know that Baalis king of the sons of Ammon hath sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to smite thy soul?' And Gedaliah son of Ahikam hath not given to them credence. 15 And Johanan son of Kareah hath spoken unto Gedaliah in secret, in Mizpah, saying, `Let me go, I pray thee, and I smite Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one doth know; why doth he smite thy soul? and scattered have been all Judah who are gathered unto thee, and perished hath the remnant of Judah.' 16 And Gedaliah son of Ahikam saith unto Johanan son of Kareah, `Thou dost not do this thing, for falsehood thou art speaking concerning Ishmael.'
• Matt 5:22 : 22 but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.
• Matt 9:4 : 4 And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, `Why think ye evil in your hearts?
• Mark 3:5 : 5 And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;
• Luke 7:39 : 39 And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind `is' the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'
• Rom 14:12-15 : 12 so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God; 13 no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence. 14 I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean; 15 and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.
• Rom 15:1-2 : 1 And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; 2 for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,
• 1 Cor 7:36 : 36 and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.
• 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe `it',
• 1 Cor 11:21-22 : 21 for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk; 22 why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!
• 1 Cor 12:25 : 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,
• 1 Cor 14:33-40 : 33 for God is not `a God' of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints. 34 Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; 35 and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly. 36 From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come? 37 if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands; 38 and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant; 39 so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid; 40 let all things be done decently and in order.
• 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,
• Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
• Gal 6:1-2 : 1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted; 2 of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
• Phil 2:3-5 : 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves -- 4 each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others. 5 For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus,
• 1 Cor 11:13-16 : 13 In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God? 14 doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him? 15 and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her; 16 and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.
• Num 16:15 : 15 And it is very displeasing to Moses, and he saith unto Jehovah, `Turn not Thou unto their present; not one ass from them have I taken, nor have I afflicted one of them.'
• Num 20:10-12 : 10 and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, `Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?' 11 and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts. 12 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, and unto Aaron, `Because ye have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore ye do not bring in this assembly unto the land which I have given to them.'
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.