What Does 1 Corinthians 16:24 Mean?
My love be with you all in Jesus the Anointed One. Amen.
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
My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.THE KEY
The Greek word for love belongs to the same word family as “beloved,” and this love is named for all.
THE MEANING
Love accompanies the whole community in Christ Jesus; the sentence extends its reach to all. This is love expressed as a bond of belonging, not something held privately by one person. “Amen” gives the words a firm close.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that love belongs only to a select few is undone by the verse’s explicit reach to “you all.”
THE ROOT
ἀγάπη
agapē
GROWS FROM
ἀγαπ-
The Greek word family for loving and holding dear.
English “love” can sound like a private feeling, but the Greek word belongs to a family that also names the one who is beloved. Here it is directed toward all, as a bond shared within Christ Jesus.
ALSO GROWS
agapaō: to love, hold dear
ἀγαπάω
This verb shares the ἀγαπ- family and shows love as a relation between people, not merely a feeling kept inside.
agapētos: beloved, dear
ἀγαπητός
This adjective shares the same family and names someone as the recipient of love, echoing the verse’s inclusion of all.
THE PATTERN
Love reaches people as a presence that draws them into relationship and holds them together.
From afar the LORD appeared to me, saying, I have loved you with a love of the ages. Therefore with faithful love I have drawn you.And over all these, put on love, which is the ligament of completeness.Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus the Anointed One, our Lord.THE THREAD
What remains, brothers. Rejoice, be mended, be comforted, hold the same mind, and live in wholeness. And the God of love and wholeness shall be with you.This verse shares the Greek word family for love, ἀγαπ-, and the phrase “shall be with you” echoes “be with you all.” Together they show love as a presence among people, not only a feeling named in passing.
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