What Does Ephesians 6:24 Mean?
Favor be with all who love our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, in what does not decay. Amen.
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
Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.THE KEY
The word rendered “sincerity” also carries the sense of imperishability: the love receiving favor is pictured as something that does not decay.
THE MEANING
Favor is with all who love Jesus, and that love is described as sincere and imperishable. The verse speaks of favor as present alongside this love now; “Amen” affirms it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that divine favor is reserved for a rare few: it is named as being with all who love the Lord Jesus.
THE ROOT
ἀφθαρσίᾳ
aphtharsia
GROWS FROM
φθαρ
The φθαρ- (phthar-) stem carries decay, corruption, or perishing; the formed word turns that sense toward what does not decay.
“what does not decay” in this verse is aphtharsia. The word rendered “sincerity,” ἀφθαρσία (aphtharsia, imperishability), belongs to the same consonantal family as words for corruption and decay. Love is described not only as sincere, but also as unspoiled and enduring.
ALSO GROWS
aphthartos: Imperishable, incorruptible
ἄφθαρτος
This adjective describes what cannot be subject to decay, illuminating the enduring quality of the love in this verse.
phthora: Corruption, decay
φθορά
This word names the decay that the phrase’s sense of imperishability excludes.
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαρ
The χαρ- (char-) stem carries favor and goodwill that confers benefit.
The χαρ- family holds favor and its giving together. In this verse, favor is not distant or abstract; it is pictured as being with those who love Jesus.
ALSO GROWS
charisma: Gift, gracious gift
χάρισμα
This branch shows favor taking the form of a gift.
charizomai: Grant freely, show favor
χαρίζομαι
This verb shows favor moving as a free act toward another.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
The y-sh-ʿ (yasha) root means to deliver and bring from constriction into spaciousness.
The name Jesus carries the nature of deliverance. The verse places favor alongside love for the one whose name holds that movement from narrowness toward spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: Deliver, rescue
יָשַׁע
This verb names the action carried in the name Yeshua.
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the deliverance held within the name.
moshia: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This word names the one who brings deliverance.
THE PATTERN
Divine favor is a present gift that meets and sustains a person within life as it is.
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.And from his fullness we have all taken, and favor for favor.And he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for strength is carried to its end in weakness." Most gladly, then, I will boast all the more in my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Anointed One may pitch its tent over me.THE THREAD
And he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for strength is carried to its end in weakness." Most gladly, then, I will boast all the more in my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Anointed One may pitch its tent over me.The Greek noun χάρις (charis, favor) appears in both verses. Here favor is with those who love Jesus; there it is sufficient in weakness, showing the same favor as a presence that sustains.
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