Usually translated as
effect, destroy, fail, make void, abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, do away, become, of no, loose, bring, to nought, put away, vanish away
Occurrences
Katargéō occurs 26 times in 25 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (6), 1 Corinthians (8), 2 Corinthians (4), Galatians (3), Ephesians (1), 2 Thessalonians (1), 2 Timothy (1), Hebrews (1)
- Romans 3:3 — For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect (καταργήσει)?
- Romans 3:31 — Do we then make void (καταργοῦμεν) the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Romans 4:14 — For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect (κατήργηται):
- Romans 6:6 — Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed (καταργηθῆ), that henceforth we should not serve sin.
- Romans 7:2 — For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed (κατήργηται) from the law of her husband.
- Romans 7:6 — But now we are delivered (κατηργήθημεν) from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
- 1 Corinthians 1:28 — And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring (καταργήσῃ) to nought things that are:
- 1 Corinthians 2:6 — Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that (καταργουμένων) come to nought:
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy (καταργήσει) both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
- 1 Corinthians 13:8 — Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail (καταργηθήσονται); whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
- 1 Corinthians 13:8 — Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away (καταργηθήσεται).
- 1 Corinthians 13:10 — But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away (καταργηθήσεται).
- 1 Corinthians 13:11 — When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away (κατήργηκα) childish things.
- 1 Corinthians 15:24 — Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down (καταργήσῃ) all rule and all authority and power.
- 1 Corinthians 15:26 — The last enemy that shall be destroyed (καταργεῖται) is death.
- 2 Corinthians 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away (καταργουμένην):
- 2 Corinthians 3:11 — For if that which is done away (καταργούμενον) was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
- 2 Corinthians 3:13 — And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished (καταργουμένου):
- 2 Corinthians 3:14 — But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away (καταργεῖται) in Christ.
- Galatians 3:17 — And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect (καταργῆσαι).
- Galatians 5:4 — Christ is become of no effect (κατηργήθητε) unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
- Galatians 5:11 — And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased (κατήργηται).
- Ephesians 2:15 — Having abolished (καταργήσας) in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8 — And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy (καταργήσει) with the brightness of his coming:
- 2 Timothy 1:10 — But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished (καταργήσαντος) death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
- Hebrews 2:14 — Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy (καταργήσῃ) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;