What Does 1 Corinthians 1:5 Mean?
That in everything you have been enriched in him, in every word and all knowing.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;THE KEY
The verse calls speech and knowing forms of wealth received from him, not achievements built in isolation.
THE MEANING
You are made rich in him across every part of life, and that richness shows in what you say and what you know. Your expression and understanding belong to the abundance he gives.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that spiritual abundance depends on manufacturing wisdom or eloquence alone: the verse locates both in him.
THE ROOT
ἐπλουτίσθητε
eploutisthete
GROWS FROM
πλουτ-
plout-
Wealth or abundance; the verb means to make rich or enrich.
“have been enriched” in this verse is eploutisthete. “Enriched” carries the sense of being made rich, and “by him” names the source of that abundance. Here it reaches into speech and knowledge, extending wealth beyond material possessions.
ALSO GROWS
ploutos: wealth, riches
πλοῦτος
The related noun makes the abundance inside “enriched” visible.
plousios: rich, wealthy
πλούσιος
This word describes the condition of having the abundance that the verse says you receive.
λόγῳ
logō
GROWS FROM
λεγ-
leg-
To say or tell; the related noun λόγος (logos) means word, message, or account.
The Greek word can hold more than the act of speaking: it also names a word, message, or account. Set beside knowledge, it shows that the abundance in him reaches both what you express and what you perceive.
ALSO GROWS
logos: word, message, account
λόγος
This is the noun used for “utterance,” opening it to the sense of a message or account.
legō: say, speak
λέγω
The related verb links utterance to the act of saying or expressing.
γνώσει
gnōsei
GROWS FROM
γινωσκ-
ginōsk-
To know, recognize, or perceive.
The noun γνώσις (gnōsis) belongs to the same word family as the verb γινώσκω (ginōskō), to know or perceive. Paired with λόγος (logos), it frames abundance as both expression and knowing, received in him.
ALSO GROWS
ginōskō: know, recognize, perceive
γινώσκω
The verb shows the knowing at the heart of the noun “knowledge.”
gnōstos: known, recognized
γνωστός
This related word brings out the movement from knowing to being known or recognized.
THE PATTERN
What God gives as abundance becomes visible in both understanding and expression.
For the LORD gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and discernment.Being enriched in everything unto all singleness, which is worked out through us thanks to God.In whom are hidden all the storehouses of wisdom and knowledge.THE THREAD
Being enriched in everything unto all singleness, which is worked out through us thanks to God.This verse uses the same Greek word family for “enriched.” There, abundance becomes bountifulness expressed through you; here, it appears in speech and knowledge.
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