What Does 1 Corinthians 1:6 Mean?
Even as the witness of the Anointed One has been made firm in you.
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
Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:THE KEY
Christ’s testimony does not stay a report about him; it is made firm within the people who receive it.
THE MEANING
The witness of the anointed one is made firm within and among you. What reaches you as testimony becomes established in the shared life, rather than remaining a statement held at a distance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that Christ’s testimony is only outside information. The verse presents it as taking root within the people who receive it.
THE ROOT
ἐβεβαιώθη
ebebaiōthē
GROWS FROM
βέβαιος
bebaios
Firm, secure, established.
“has been made firm” in this verse is ebebaiōthē. The verb carries the sense of being made firm or established, not simply being repeated. The testimony is described as taking hold within the plural “you”, the people together.
ALSO GROWS
bebaioō: To make firm, establish, or confirm.
βεβαιόω
It shows the force behind “confirmed”: the testimony becomes established.
bebaiōsis: Confirmation or assurance.
βεβαίωσις
This related word shows how firmness can become something settled and dependable.
μαρτύριον
martyrion
GROWS FROM
μάρτυς
martys
Witness; one who testifies to what is seen or known.
“Testimony” belongs to the language of witnessing: it is a witness carried into the open. The verse joins that witness to being made firm within the people who receive it.
ALSO GROWS
martys: A witness.
μάρτυς
The testimony is rooted in the presence of a witness, not merely an abstract idea.
martyreō: To bear witness or testify.
μαρτυρέω
This verb shows testimony as an act of witnessing that can be carried from one person to another.
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρίω
chriō
To anoint; Χριστός means “the anointed one.”
“Christ” carries the meaning “the anointed one,” so the testimony is joined to a living identity and calling, not merely a name. The phrase can point to testimony belonging to him or borne concerning him.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint.
χρίω
It reveals the action beneath the title “the anointed one.”
chrisma: Anointing.
χρῖσμα
This related word keeps the title connected to the act of anointing.
THE PATTERN
God’s witness moves from testimony heard to testimony carried and established among people.
Bind up the witness, and seal the instruction in the midst of my learners.And you also bear witness, because from the beginning you have been with me.How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a deliverance? It first began to be spoken through the Lord, and was made firm to us by those who heard him.THE THREAD
who bore witness to the word of God and to the witness of Jesus, the Anointed One, and to all that he saw.The phrase “testimony of Jesus Christ” repeats the same Greek word family as “testimony” here. In both verses, the witness is carried through people: seen, borne, and made firm among them.
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