What Does 2 Peter 1:11 Mean?

For thus the entrance will be supplied to you richly, into the age-long governance of our Lord and Deliverer, Jesus the Anointed One.

2 Peter 1:11 · SDV

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.

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King James Version

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

THE KEY

The entrance into the governance of the ages is itself richly furnished to you.

THE MEANING

You are promised a richly furnished entrance into the governance of the ages belonging to our Lord and Deliverer, Jesus the Anointed One. The verse places abundance at the threshold of that reign.

THE ROOT

ἐπιχορηγηθήσεται

epichorēgēthēsetai

GROWS FROM

χορηγ-

chorēg-

To furnish or provide what is needed.

“supplied” in this verse is epichorēgēthēsetai. The Greek verb carries the image of furnishing or supplying. Paired with “abundantly,” it presents the entrance as richly provisioned for you.

ALSO GROWS

chorēgos: A provider or sponsor who furnishes what is needed.

χορηγός

The provider’s role illuminates the verse’s image of an entrance being supplied.

chorēgeō: To supply or provide.

χορηγέω

This verb shares the supply sense carried by “ministered” in the verse.

αἰώνιον

aiōnion

GROWS FROM

αἰών

aiōn

An age or span of time.

“age-long” in this verse is aiōnion. Beneath “everlasting” is the Greek language of the age: the adjective describes what belongs to or characterizes an age. Here it gives the phrase the texture of the governance of the ages.

ALSO GROWS

aiōn: An age or era.

αἰών

This is the time-word at the heart of the phrase translated “everlasting kingdom.”

aiōnios: Of an age; age-lasting.

αἰώνιος

This adjective describes the governance as belonging to the ages.

βασιλείαν

basileian

GROWS FROM

βασιλ-

basil-

Kingship, royal rule, or governance.

This word family names royal rule, so “kingdom” carries the nature of governance. Paired with the age-word, the phrase opens onto governance extending through the ages, belonging to Jesus the Anointed One.

ALSO GROWS

basileus: A king.

βασιλεύς

The king is the one whose royal rule the verse names.

basileuō: To reign or rule as king.

βασιλεύω

This verb makes the active governance within “kingdom” visible.

THE PATTERN

God’s provision meets growth, nourishment, and entry with abundance.

You lay out a table before my face, in full view of those who press me. You make my head rich with oil; my cup is soaked full.

Psalm 23:5 · SDVThe prepared table and overflowing cup picture provision spread before the reader in abundance.

And bringing all your eagerness in beside this, supply to your trust strength, and to your strength, knowing;

2 Peter 1:5 · SDVThe Greek supply verb behind “add” pictures virtue and knowledge as furnished along the path of growth.

and not gripping the head, from whom the whole body, being fed through its joints and bonds, and being joined together, grows with the growth of God.

Colossians 2:19 · SDVThe body’s nourishment is supplied from its Head, and that provision is joined to its growth.

THE THREAD

And bringing all your eagerness in beside this, supply to your trust strength, and to your strength, knowing;

2 Peter 1:5 · SDV

The word rendered “add” here belongs to the same furnish-and-supply family as “ministered” in 1:11. What is supplied along the path of growth and the richly supplied entrance form one continuous picture.

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