What Does 2 Corinthians 8:6 Mean?
So we urged Titus, that as he had begun before, so he would also finish among you this same favor.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James Version
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.THE KEY
Favor here is not a feeling that stays with you; it takes shape as a work carried through among you.
THE MEANING
The favor named here is already at work in you: what has begun can be carried through to completion among you. It takes a shared, practical form rather than remaining an idea.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that favor is only a private feeling or benefit; here, it has a shared form that can be carried through to completion.
THE ROOT
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαρ
char
Favor or goodwill, with a Greek word-family linked to rejoicing and freely granted gifts.
The project’s established sense of charis is favor: something that can be given and received. In this verse, favor is not sealed off as an invisible quality; it is the work being brought to completion among you.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: To grant freely or show favor; in some contexts, to forgive.
χαρίζομαι
This branch shows favor as an act that passes from one person to another.
charisma: A gift freely given.
χάρισμα
This branch makes the gift-shaped quality of charis visible: favor can become something shared.
ἐπιτελέσῃ
epitelesei
GROWS FROM
τελ
tel
Reach an end or goal; bring something to completion.
“finish” in this verse is epitelesei. The verse joins a beginning to a carried-through completion. The favor is not merely present among you; it is moving toward its full expression.
ALSO GROWS
telos: An end, goal, or outcome.
τέλος
This branch shows that completion means reaching the intended end of what has begun.
teleios: Complete or mature.
τέλειος
This branch connects reaching the goal with becoming fully expressed.
THE PATTERN
Favor becomes visible when it is carried through as generosity that nourishes others.
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 living soul of blessing is made fat, and the one who waters is himself watered.THE THREAD
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 same Greek word χάρις (charis, favor) appears here. In 8:6, favor is to be carried through among you; here, it abounds toward you and overflows into good work.
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