What Does 1 Corinthians 1:7 Mean in the King James?
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
You wait for Christ’s unveiling with favor-gifts already present; waiting is not emptiness.
THE MEANING
You await the revealing of Jesus while no favor-gift is missing from your life together. The waiting is not a vacant interval: what is given now already belongs to the life oriented toward his unveiling.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that you must wait for Christ to be revealed before you have what you need.
THE ROOT
χάρισμα
charisma
GROWS FROM
χάρις
charis
favor; gracious regard freely extended
A charisma is favor taking the form of a gift. The same word-family links what is received with the grateful response it awakens, so the verse presents the community’s abundance as favor received and recognized.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: to grant freely; show favor
χαρίζομαι
This branch shows favor in action: the gift is favor extended, not merely an item possessed.
eucharistia: thanksgiving; gratitude
εὐχαριστία
The same charis family names the response to received favor, linking gift and gratitude.
ἀποκάλυψις
apokalypsis
GROWS FROM
καλύπτω
kalyptō
to cover or conceal
The KJV’s “coming” is apokalypsis, an uncovering: what is hidden becomes visible. The waiting in this verse faces an unveiling, while the gifts named just before it are already present.
ALSO GROWS
kalyptō: to cover; conceal
καλύπτω
This is the covered state carried in the root beneath the word for revelation.
apokalyptō: to uncover; reveal
ἀποκαλύπτω
The uncovering word shows what the awaited apokalypsis brings into view.
kalymma: a covering; veil
κάλυμμα
The veil belongs to the same word-family, making revelation the removal of what obscures.
THE PATTERN
Waiting for what is to be revealed can coexist with gifts already present for life now.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;THE THREAD
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.The “open face” is an unveiled face, formed from the same Greek word-family as apokalypsis, the unveiling awaited here. The connection makes that revealing continuous with present sight: you already behold the Lord’s weight with an uncovered face.
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