What Does 2 Corinthians 4:15 Mean?
For all things are for your sake, so that the favor, multiplying through the many, might cause the thanksgiving to overflow, so that God may be given weight.
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King James wording
King James Version
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.THE KEY
The Greek word for thanksgiving carries the same root as favor: what reaches you as favor becomes the many-voiced path by which God’s weight is revealed.
THE MEANING
What reaches your life serves your sake, and favor multiplies as many people give thanks. The outcome is not private possession; gratitude carries the increase toward the weight of God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that favor ends with the person who receives it; here, favor passes through many people’s thanksgiving and returns as God’s weight.
THE ROOT
εὐχαριστία
eucharistia
GROWS FROM
χάρις
charis
Favor, freely given goodwill.
“the favor, multiplying” in this verse is eucharistia. English places grace and thanksgiving in separate compartments, while Greek εὐχαριστία (eucharistia, thanksgiving) carries χάρις (charis, favor) within its own formation. This verse makes that shared seed a movement: favor received becomes gratitude voiced by many and overflows toward the weight of God.
ALSO GROWS
eucharisteō: To give thanks.
εὐχαριστέω
This related word shows thanksgiving as the spoken response that carries favor outward.
charisma: A gift freely given; a gracious gift.
χάρισμα
It links favor to what is received, while the verse shows that what is received can become shared gratitude.
THE PATTERN
What is received from God becomes a shared expression that returns honor to God.
Whoever offers thanksgiving gives me weight, and to the one who sets his way, I show him the deliverance of God.And that the nations might give weight to God for compassion, as it is written, For this I will confess to you among the nations, and I will sing to your name.If anyone speaks, let them speak as the words of God. If anyone serves, let them serve by the strength God supplies, so that in all things God may be given weight through Jesus, the Anointed One, to whom belong the weight and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen.THE THREAD
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.This verse repeats the movement of abundance through many thanksgivings unto God. The shared word-family behind thanksgiving and favor makes the connection audible: what is received flows through many voices back toward God.
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