What Does 2 Corinthians 4:14 Mean?
Knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also through Jesus, and will stand us beside you.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James Version
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.THE KEY
The Greek uses the same verb for Jesus already raised and for you still to be raised: your future is carried by the very act named in him.
THE MEANING
God’s raising of Jesus reaches you too: God raises you and brings you into presence with others. Your future is described as a shared arrival, not a solitary one.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that death has the final claim over you or that restoration is something you face alone: the same God raises you and gathers you with others.
THE ROOT
ἐγείρας
egeíras
GROWS FROM
ἐγειρ-
egeir-
Raise, awaken.
“raised up” in this verse is egeíras. The verse uses this same verb for the raising of Jesus and the raising promised for you. Its word family holds waking and rising together, so the future here grows from an act already named.
ALSO GROWS
égersis: A raising, rising, or resurrection.
ἔγερσις
This noun from the same family makes the shared movement from waking to rising visible in the word itself.
egrēgoréō: To be awake or keep watch.
ἐγρηγορέω
This word belongs to the same recognized family through the perfect form of ἐγείρω: being raised and being awake share a linguistic branch.
παραστήσει
parastḗsei
GROWS FROM
στη-/στα- (stē-/sta-)
Stand, set in place.
The Greek word for “present” carries the sense of standing beside or placing in someone’s presence. The verse’s final movement is not only being raised, but being brought into company.
ALSO GROWS
stásis: A standing, position, or state.
στάσις
This related form keeps the idea of standing in view: being presented means being placed in a shared presence.
anástasis: A rising or resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
Built from ἀνά and the same stand-family, this word for resurrection joins rising with standing in a new position.
THE PATTERN
God’s raising of Jesus opens into life and presence shared with others.
Your dead will live; together with my corpse they will rise. Awake and ring out, you who camp in the dust, for your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will drop the slackened ones.But if the breath of him who raised Jesus from the dead makes its home in you, then he who raised the Anointed One from the dead will also make your death-bound bodies alive through his breath that makes its home in you.And he raised us up together and seated us together in the places of the heavens, in the Anointed One, Jesus.THE THREAD
In an instant, in the flick of an eye, at the last trumpet; for it will sound, and the dead will be awakened undecaying, and we will be made other.The Greek “shall be raised” uses the same verb family, ἐγείρω, as the raising in this verse. Here that shared root opens onto incorruptible life and change, while 2 Corinthians places the raised among others.
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