11 translations · Greek
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
2 Corinthians 13:5 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
- KJV King James Version
- Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Try yourselves, if you are in the faith; prove yourselves; do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are not disapproved of in some respect?
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Examine yourselves to see if you are trusting God. Put yourselves to the test. Don't you yourselves realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless you have failed the test…
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?
- DBY Darby Translation
- examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye are reprobates?
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Try your own selves if you be in the faith; prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἑαυτοὺς | Heautous | yourselves [to see] | G1438 ἑαυτοῦ themself |
| πειράζετε | peirazete | Examine | G3985 πειράζω to test/tempt: tempt |
| εἰ | ei | whether | G1487 εἰ if |
| ἐστὲ | este | you are | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| τῇ | tē | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| πίστει | pistei | faith | G4102 πίστις faith |
| ἑαυτοὺς | heautous | yourselves | G1438 ἑαυτοῦ themself |
| δοκιμάζετε | dokimazete | test | G1381 δοκιμάζω to test |
| ἢ | ē | — | G2228 ἤ or |
| οὐκ | ouk | Do you not | G3756 οὐ no |
| ἐπιγινώσκετε | epiginōskete | realize | G1921 ἐπιγινώσκω to come to know |
| ἑαυτοὺς | heautous | — | G1438 ἑαυτοῦ themself |
| ὅτι | hoti | that | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| Ἰησοῦς | Iēsous | Jesus | G2424 Ἰησοῦς Jesus |
| Χριστὸς | Christos | Christ | G5547 Χριστός Christ |
| ἐν | en | [is] in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| ὑμῖν | hymin | you | G4771 σύ you |
| εἰ | ei | unless | G1487 εἰ if |
| μήτι | mēti | — | G3385 μήτι surely not |
| ἀδόκιμοί | adokimoi | fail the test | G96 ἀδόκιμος failing |
| ἐστε | este | you | G1510 εἰμί to be |
Related verses
- Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
- 1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
- Psalm 139:23–24
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
- Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
- 1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
- Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
- Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
- Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
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.
5 Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
6 But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
Read all of 2 Corinthians 13 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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