What Does 2 Corinthians 1:11 Mean?
You also help together by prayer for us, so that for the favor given to us through many faces, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
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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
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.THE KEY
The word for the gift and the word for thanksgiving share a root: favor received by many becomes gratitude voiced by many.
THE MEANING
Your prayer joins the help moving toward another person, and the gift received becomes thanksgiving rising from many voices. What reaches one through many does not end with one; gratitude carries it outward again.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that prayer is powerless goodwill with no part in what reaches another: here, shared prayer joins the help, and the received gift multiplies thanksgiving.
THE ROOT
χάρισμα
charisma
GROWS FROM
χάρις
charis
Favor; freely given kindness.
The word translated “gift” grows from the same root as the word for favor. The word translated “thanks” also carries that root, so the verse links favor received with gratitude returned.
ALSO GROWS
charis: Favor, freely given kindness.
χάρις
This is the root beneath “gift,” showing that what is received is framed as favor.
eucharisteō: To give thanks.
εὐχαριστέω
This word carries the same favor-root, joining the gift received with the many voices giving thanks.
THE PATTERN
Help carried by many turns what is received into thanksgiving returned by many.
Let them extend their hands in thanks to the LORD for his faithful love, and for his wonders to the children of humankind.Peter was therefore kept in prison, but prayer was stretched out by the assembly toward God for him.For this serving, this work of the people, not only fills up the lack of the set-apart ones, but also overflows through many thanks to God.THE THREAD
I give thanks to my God always concerning you, for the favor of God given to you in Jesus the Anointed One.The word translated “grace” and the word translated “I thank” share the favor-root. Gratitude is already growing inside the favor received.
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