2 Corinthians 13:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἑαυτοὺς πειράζετε, εἰ ἐστὲ ἐν τῇ πίστει· ἑαυτοὺς δοκιμάζετε. Ἢ οὐκ ἐπιγινώσκετε ἑαυτοὺς, ὅτι Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν, ἐστίν εἰ μήτι ἀδόκιμοί ἐστε;

Transliteration

Heautous peirazete, ei este en tē pistei; heautous dokimazete. Ē ouk epiginōskete heautous, hoti Iēsous Christos en you, estin ei mēti adokimoi este?

Grammar Details

• *Heautous*: reflexive pronoun, accusative, masculine, plural - yourselves
• *peirazete*: present, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - test/examine
• *ei*: conditional particle - if/whether
• *este*: present, indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you are
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *tē pistei*: article + noun, dative, feminine, singular - the faith
• *dokimazete*: present, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - prove/examine
• *Ē*: disjunctive particle - or
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *epiginōskete*: present, indicative, active, 2nd person plural - you recognize/know
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *Iēsous Christos*: Jesus Christ, nominative, masculine, singular
• *estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - is
• *ei mēti*: conditional + negative particles - unless
• *adokimoi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - unapproved/failing the test

Word Meanings

• *peirazete*: test/examine/try
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust
• *dokimazete*: examine/prove/test/approve
• *epiginōskete*: recognize/fully know/acknowledge
• *adokimoi*: unapproved/disqualified/failed/counterfeit

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 11:28 : 28 and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;
• Lam 3:40 : 40 We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
• 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
• Heb 12:15 : 15 looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
• Gal 6:4 : 4 and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,
• Gal 2:20 : 20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
• Gal 4:19 : 19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
• Titus 1:16 : 16 God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
• Ps 119:59 : 59 I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies.
• Rom 8:10 : 10 and if Christ `is' in you, the body, indeed, `is' dead because of sin, and the Spirit `is' life because of righteousness,
• Heb 4:1 : 1 We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,
• Heb 6:8 : 8 and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is' for burning;
• John 15:4 : 4 remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.
• John 17:26 : 26 and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'
• Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts, 24 And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!
• Ps 26:2 : 2 Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified `are' my reins and my heart.
• 2 Cor 13:6-7 : 6 and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of; 7 and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;
• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone', 21 in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, 22 in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,
• Col 1:23 : 23 if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
• Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God did will to make known what `is' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
• Col 2:7 : 7 being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.
• 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.
• 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;
• Titus 1:13 : 13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
• 1 Cor 11:31 : 31 for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
• Titus 2:2 : 2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
• Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.
• Jer 6:30 : 30 `Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,
• Hag 1:5 : 5 And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.
• John 6:6 : 6 and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.
• John 6:56 : 56 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?
• 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?
• 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
• 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
• 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious, 5 and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 5:9 : 9 whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.
• 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,
• Rev 2:5 : 5 remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place -- if thou mayest not reform;
• Rev 3:2-3 : 2 become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God. 3 `Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.