What Does 2 Corinthians 1:13 Mean?
For we write nothing to you other than what you read and know, and I hope you will know until the end.
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
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;THE KEY
The words you read and the truth you recognize grow from the same root of knowing.
THE MEANING
The verse places reading beside recognition: what you take in can also be known. That recognition continues to the end, held in the trust expressed here.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the suspicion that the words before you conceal a second, inaccessible message: here, what is read is also what is recognized.
THE ROOT
ἐπιγινώσκω
epiginōskō
GROWS FROM
γινώσκω
To know or perceive; here, to recognize.
“know” in this verse is epiginōskō. English makes “read” and “acknowledge” sound like separate acts, but both verbs carry the same Greek knowing-root. The sentence holds taking in words and recognizing them close together, then carries that recognition forward to the end.
ALSO GROWS
anaginōskō: To read; a verb built on the same knowing-root.
ἀναγινώσκω
The KJV’s “read” shares the root of “acknowledge” in this sentence, joining taking in words with recognizing them.
gnōsis: Knowledge or knowing.
γνῶσις
This related word makes visible the knowing beneath the verse’s act of recognition.
THE PATTERN
Words that are brought near can be received as understanding and recognized as truth.
The opening of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the open ones.But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie comes out of the truth.THE THREAD
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.“Know” in John and “acknowledge” here share the Greek root γινώσκω (ginōskō, know or perceive). In this verse, recognition extends to the end; in John, knowing truth is joined to being made free.
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