1 Corinthians 6:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὰ βρώματα τῇ κοιλίᾳ, καὶ ἡ κοιλία τοῖς βρώμασιν: ὁ δὲ Θεὸς καὶ ταύτην καὶ ταῦτα καταργήσει. Τὸ δὲ σῶμα οὐ τῇ πορνείᾳ, ἀλλὰ τῷ Κυρίῳ· καὶ ὁ Κύριος τῷ σώματι.

Transliteration

The brōmata for the koilia, and the koilia for the brōmasin: but ho Theos both this and these will katargēsei. But the sōma not for porneia, but for the Kyriō; and the Kyrios for the sōmati.

Grammar Details

• *Ta brōmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - foods
• *tē koilia*: dative, feminine, singular - for the stomach
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hē koilia*: nominative, feminine, singular - the stomach
• *tois brōmasin*: dative, neuter, plural - for the foods
• *ho de Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular + postpositive conjunction - but God
• *kai tautēn kai tauta*: both this and these
• *katargēsei*: future indicative, active, 3rd singular - will abolish/destroy
• *To de sōma*: nominative, neuter, singular + postpositive conjunction - but the body
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *tē porneia*: dative, feminine, singular - for sexual immorality
• *alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *tō Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - for the Lord
• *ho Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - the Lord
• *tō sōmati*: dative, neuter, singular - for the body

Word Meanings

• *brōmata*: foods/meats
• *koilia*: stomach/belly/appetite
• *katargēsei*: will destroy/abolish/bring to an end
• *sōma*: body/physical form
• *porneia*: sexual immorality/fornication
• *Kyrios*: Lord/master

Referenced Verses

• Matt 15:17 : 17 Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
• 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
• Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; 6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. 7 For God {G2564} called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
• Rom 7:4 : 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.
• Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. 8 For whether {G5037} we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether {G5037} we live therefore, or {G5037} die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ {G2532} died and {G450} {G2532} lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
• Rom 14:17 : 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• Matt 15:20 : 20 these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.
• Mark 7:19 : 19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.
• John 6:27 : 27 Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
• John 6:49 : 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
• Col 2:22-23 : 22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
• 1 Cor 10:3-5 : 3 and did all eat the same spiritual food; 4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ. 5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
• 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.