What Does 1 Corinthians 15:11 Mean?
So whether it was I or they, so we herald, and so you leaned your full weight on it.
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
Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.THE KEY
The voice changes, but the message and the trust it calls forth remain the same.
THE MEANING
What reaches you does not belong to one voice; it can be carried by different people without changing its center. The proclamation and your trust meet in one continuous movement: what is spoken is what you receive.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A message becomes trustworthy only when it comes through one particular person.
THE ROOT
ἐπιστεύσατε
episteusate
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust; rely on what is trustworthy.
“leaned your full weight on it” in this verse is episteusate. The form ἐπιστεύσατε (episteusate, “you trusted”) belongs to the family of πιστεύω (pisteuō, “to trust”). Its branches keep believing connected to trustworthiness: here, the response is not detached opinion but weight placed on the proclamation.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, reliance
πίστις
This is the trust that the hearers place on the message.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable
πιστός
This branch links trust to the reliability on which it rests.
THE PATTERN
A message can pass through different messengers without becoming theirs.
I raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and I set my words in his mouth, and he speaks to them all that I command him.The one who hears you hears me, and the one who sets you aside sets me aside, and the one who sets me aside sets aside the one who sent me.For we do not proclaim ourselves, but the Anointed One, Jesus, the Lord; and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.THE THREAD
How then will they call upon him in whom they have not trusted? And how will they trust the one of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a herald?Romans 10:14 places trust beside the one who proclaims. The same trust verb, πιστεύω (pisteuō, “to trust”), appears in both verses, making the link between proclamation and trust visible.
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