What Does 1 Corinthians 15:28 Mean in the King James?

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

1 Corinthians 15:28 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The same Greek verb stands behind “subdued,” “subject,” and “put ... under,” carrying one repeated act of subordination toward the end that God may be all in all.

THE MEANING

The verse gives the reader a horizon in which all things are brought under the Son, and the Son himself is subject to the one who places all things under him. The purpose is that God may be all in all.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The verse undoes the assumption that the Son stands above everything without himself being subject to anyone: it places him under the one who placed all things under him.

THE ROOT

ὑποταγῇ

hypotagē

GROWS FROM

τάσσω

tassō

Arrange, set in order, appoint; in the compound ⁨ὑποτάσσω⁩, place under or subject.

Greek repeats forms of ⁨ὑποτάσσω⁩ behind “subdued,” “subject,” and “put ... under,” while English gives the repeated action different expressions. The same ⁨τάσσω⁩ family appears earlier in the chapter as ⁨τάγμα⁩, “order,” connecting the final subjection with the chapter’s language of appointed order.

ALSO GROWS

hypotassō: Place under; subject.

ὑποτάσσω

This compound verb is repeated across the verse, placing all things under the Son and the Son under the one who placed all things beneath him.

tagma: An appointed order or rank.

τάγμα

This word appears in verse 23 as “order,” linking the chapter’s appointed sequence to the subordination described at its close.

THE PATTERN

Scripture pictures authority as an order in which all things are placed under the appointed ruler.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

Psalm 8:6 · KJVAll things are placed under the human figure given dominion over the works of God’s hands.

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Ephesians 1:22 · KJVThe verse describes the appointed ruler through the same image of all things under his feet.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

Hebrews 2:8 · KJVThe verse makes the comprehensive scope of subjection explicit, naming nothing as outside the order.

THE THREAD

But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

1 Corinthians 15:23 · KJV

“Order” translates ⁨τάγμα⁩, from the same ⁨τάσσω⁩ family as the repeated subjection verb in verse 28. Read together, the chapter connects resurrection and subjection through the language of appointed placement.

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