What Does 1 Corinthians 15:11 Mean in the King James?
Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
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 voice changes, but the message and the trust it calls forth remain the same.
THE MEANING
What reaches you does not belong to one voice; it can be carried by different people without changing its center. The proclamation and your trust meet in one continuous movement: what is spoken is what you receive.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A message becomes trustworthy only when it comes through one particular person.
THE ROOT
ἐπιστεύσατε
episteusate
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust; rely on what is trustworthy.
“believed” in this verse is episteusate. The form ἐπιστεύσατε (episteusate, “you trusted”) belongs to the family of πιστεύω (pisteuō, “to trust”). Its branches keep believing connected to trustworthiness: here, the response is not detached opinion but weight placed on the proclamation.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, reliance
πίστις
This is the trust that the hearers place on the message.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable
πιστός
This branch links trust to the reliability on which it rests.
THE PATTERN
A message can pass through different messengers without becoming theirs.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.THE THREAD
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?Romans 10:14 places trust beside the one who proclaims. The same trust verb, πιστεύω (pisteuō, “to trust”), appears in both verses, making the link between proclamation and trust visible.
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