2 Corinthians 13:5
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?
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Reprobates
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2 Corinthians 13:7
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
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ἀδόκιμος
adókimos · ad-ok'-ee-mos
3 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
unapproved, i.e. rejected; by implication, worthless (literally or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--castaway, rejected, reprobate.
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Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 13:5Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 13:7
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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?
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But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
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reprobate
REPROBATE, adjective [Latin reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]
1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
REPROBATE silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jeremiah 6:30.
2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.
They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate Titus 1:16.
3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2 Timothy 3:8.
REP'ROBATE, noun A person abandoned to sin; one lost to virtue and religion.
I acknowledge myself a reprobate a villain, a traitor to the king.
REP'ROBATE, verb transitive
1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to disallow; to reject. It expresses more than disapprove or disallow. We disapprove of slight faults and improprieties; we reprobate what is mean or criminal.
2. In a milder sense, to disallow.
Such an answer as this, is reprobated and disallowed of in law.
3. To abandon to wickedness and eternal destruction.
4. To abandon to his sentence, without hope of pardon.
Drive him out to reprobated exile.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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