What Does 2 Corinthians 1:15 Mean?
And in this trust I was willing to come to you before, so that you might have a second favor.
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
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;THE KEY
The “second benefit” is a second χάρις (charis, favor): this return is pictured as favor received again.
THE MEANING
A return can carry more than practical help; it can bring favor to be received again. The confidence in this verse is settled persuasion, and it gives the coming a purpose: that another meeting becomes a second favor. Presence itself can be the way favor reaches you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The assumption that a return encounter can only repeat what has already been received. Here, another visit is meant to carry another favor.
THE ROOT
χάριν
charin
GROWS FROM
χάρις
charis
Favor, graciousness, or a gift freely given.
The word translated “benefit” is the Greek form χάριν (charin, favor), from χάρις (charis, favor). Its root holds more than an advantage: the planned return is meant to be a fresh experience of favor, something received again.
ALSO GROWS
charisma: A gift given through favor.
χάρισμα
This branch makes visible how favor can arrive as something received; the planned visit is meant to bring a second such gift.
charizomai: To grant freely or show favor; in some contexts, to forgive.
χαρίζομαι
Favor can take the form of a freely granted gift, which illuminates the verse’s picture of another meeting bringing something given again.
πεποιθήσει
pepoithēsei
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
To persuade or convince; in its middle use, to trust or rely.
The form πεποιθήσει (pepoithēsei, confidence) carries the sense of settled persuasion and reliance. Confidence here is what the intended coming rests on: trust takes shape as a purposeful approach.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: To persuade or convince.
πείθω
This is the seed beneath “confidence”: the verse’s assurance carries the sense of being persuaded.
pepoithenai: To have come to trust or to be confident.
πεποιθέναι
This perfect form shows persuasion settled into reliance, echoing the confidence from which the planned visit proceeds.
THE PATTERN
Favor is not exhausted in one giving; it can be received again and overflow into further good.
And from his fullness we have all taken, and favor for favor.For the LORD God is sun and shield. The LORD gives favor and weight. He will hold back no good from those who walk in wholeness.And God is able to make all favor overflow toward you, so that you, always holding all you need in everything, may overflow into every good work.THE THREAD
And from his fullness we have all taken, and favor for favor.The Greek word translated “benefit” here is χάριν (charin, favor), a form of χάρις (charis, favor), the same word John renders “grace.” Paul’s second favor through a return opens into John’s image of “grace for grace”: favor meets favor, and receiving is not exhausted by the first gift.
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