καὶ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 καὶ

   kai

   and
2. sentence🔊 τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσιν καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος πόρνους γὰρ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ θεός

   TI-mi-os ho GA-mos en PA-sin kai hê KOI-tê a-MI-an-tos POR-nous gar kai moi-KHOUS kri-NEI ho the-OS

   honored the marriage in all and the bed undefiled sexually immoral {people} for and adulterers will judge the God

Exegesis

The coordinated clause kai hē koite amiantos {καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος | kaí hē koí-tē a-mí-an-tos} parallels the first, with hē koite as the subject and amiantos as a predicate adjective, again with an implied “is/should be,” using “bed” as a metonymy for marital sexual relations. There is no explicit main verb in these two nominative clauses, so English supplies “should be” to convey the hortatory force.

The explanatory conjunction gar {γὰρ | gar} introduces the rationale clause: pornous gar kai moichous krinei ho theos {πόρνους γὰρ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ θεός | pór-nous gar kaí moi-khoús kri-neî ho the-ós}. Here, pornous and moichous form a coordinated double direct object of krinei, while ho theos functions as the subject placed after the verb for emphasis on the objects under judgment. The future indicative krinei encodes a certain, decisive future action. The shift from nominal, verbless clauses to a finite verb in the final clause creates a movement from ideal norm (honored, undefiled marriage) to solemn warning (inevitable divine judgment), which the translations maintain by rendering the first part as moral exhortation and the last as a firm predictive statement.