What Does 1 Corinthians 16:1 Mean in the King James?
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
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 collection is a shared practice deliberately arranged across communities, making care part of their common life.
THE MEANING
Material care for people set apart belongs inside the reader’s shared life. Resources are gathered deliberately, and the same practice holds across assemblies rather than depending on a private impulse. The verse places care within the community’s ordinary order.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that spiritual life is separate from material care: here, supporting others is built into the community’s shared order.
THE ROOT
λογίας
logias
GROWS FROM
λογ-
log-
Gathering or collecting; here, a contribution gathered for a shared purpose.
The Greek noun names a collection or contribution, and its verbal family carries the act of gathering. The verse presents care as a common undertaking, then says that undertaking is arranged across communities.
ALSO GROWS
logeúō: To gather or collect contributions.
λογεύω
The verbal form makes the gathering behind the collection explicit.
syllogē: A gathering or collection.
συλλογή
This related gathering word echoes the shared action contained in the collection.
διέταξα
dietaxa
GROWS FROM
τάσσω
tassō
To arrange, assign, or put in place.
“given order” in this verse is dietaxa. The instruction uses a word of arrangement: the collection is given a structure that can be carried from Galatia to Corinth. Care is made repeatable across communities.
ALSO GROWS
taxis: Arrangement or order.
τάξις
It shows the organizing sense that remains underneath the English word “order.”
diatassō: To arrange or prescribe.
διατάσσω
This is the verb family of the word used here for setting the practice in place.
ἁγίους
hagious
GROWS FROM
ἁγ-
hag-
Set apart; devoted to what is sacred.
“saints” in this verse is hagious. The recipients are ἅγιοι (hagioi, set-apart ones), so their material needs belong within the community’s set-apart life. The word describes a people’s relation and belonging, not a rank reserved for the exceptional.
ALSO GROWS
hagiazō: To set apart or consecrate.
ἁγιάζω
It gives the verb form of the setting-apart named by “saints.”
hagiasmos: Setting apart or consecration.
ἁγιασμός
It names the process or state connected to being set apart.
THE PATTERN
Resources are opened, gathered, and shared so that need is met within a common life.
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:THE THREAD
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.This verse uses ἁγίους (hagious, set-apart ones) for the same recipients. It calls their care κοινωνία (koinōnia, sharing in common), opening the collection into participation in one another’s service.
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