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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Quit you like men" (1 Corinthians 16:13) sounds like Paul is telling the Corinthians to quit, give up, or stop something.
"Quit you like men" meant "conduct yourselves like men": an old command to stand firm, not an instruction to quit anything.
1 Corinthians 16:13, in every translation this tool compares.
The Greek is a single word, andrizomai, meaning "be courageous" or "act like a man," used only this once in the New Testament. Paul is telling the Corinthians to stand firm, be strong, and act with mature courage: essentially the opposite of quitting.
"Quit" in 1611 retained its older sense from "acquit," to conduct or discharge oneself in a particular way (compare "quit yourself well"), a sense almost entirely lost in modern English, where "quit" now means only to stop or leave.
