What Does 1 Corinthians 11:2 Mean in the King James?
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
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
The same Greek word family lies beneath “ordinances” and “delivered”: what you keep is what has first been handed to you.
THE MEANING
What is entrusted to you stays present through your remembering and keeping it. The verse praises a living chain of reception and preservation: what is handed over continues through those who hold it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that what has been handed down survives on its own; here, its continuity depends on being remembered and kept.
THE ROOT
παραδόσεις
paradoseis
GROWS FROM
παραδίδωμι (para + didōmi)
To hand over, pass along, or entrust.
“ordinances / delivered” in this verse is paradoseis. “Ordinances” and “delivered” echo the same Greek word family: one names what is handed down, the other the act of handing it over. English separates them, while the Greek ties keeping to receiving a transmission.
ALSO GROWS
paradosis: A handing over; what is handed down.
παράδοσις
This is the word rendered “ordinances,” showing them as received teaching carried forward.
paradidōmi: To hand over or deliver.
παραδίδωμι
This is the verb behind “delivered,” linking the teaching being kept to the act by which it reaches the reader.
didōmi: To give.
δίδωμι
The compound adds the sense of passing something along, so the verse’s keeping begins with something given into another’s care.
THE PATTERN
What is received stays alive as it is remembered, kept, and passed onward.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.THE THREAD
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;“Delivered” here shares the Greek word family with “ordinances” and “delivered” in 1 Corinthians 11:2. The paired movement is clear: what is received is handed on, and what is handed on can be remembered and kept.
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