What Does 1 Corinthians 16:11 Mean in the King James?
Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
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 verse answers contempt with a concrete act: send the person onward accompanied by wholeness, toward a community already waiting.
THE MEANING
Another person’s contempt does not make you insignificant. Regard takes shape in accompanying someone forward in wholeness, while others make room and wait to receive him. Sending and welcoming belong to the same act of communal care.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that another person’s contempt determines your worth dissolves here: the response is care that honors and accompanies the person.
THE ROOT
ἐξουθενήσῃ
exouthenēsē
GROWS FROM
οὐδέν
ouden
Nothing; treating someone as though they amount to nothing.
The word translated “despise” carries the image of making someone nothing in your regard. The verse places that reduction beside an active response: accompany him onward and wait to receive him.
ALSO GROWS
ouden: Nothing.
οὐδέν
This is the word-stuff beneath the contempt verb: the person is regarded as nothing.
exoutheneō: Treat as nothing; despise.
ἐξουθενέω
This is the verb used here, making contempt a way of reducing someone in your regard.
exoudenoō: Treat as nothing; regard with contempt.
ἐξουδενόω
This variant form makes the same underlying image visible: contempt counts a person as nothing.
προπέμψατε
propempsate
GROWS FROM
πέμπω
pempō
Send; with προ- (pro-) in this compound, send forward or onward.
“conduct him forth” in this verse is propempsate. The verb can mean more than dispatching someone: it can carry the sense of escorting or helping someone on the way. The verse’s answer to contempt is practical accompaniment.
ALSO GROWS
pempō: Send.
πέμπω
The base action is sending; the compound directs that action forward.
propempō: Send forward; accompany on a journey.
προπέμπω
This is the verse’s verb: care extends into helping him continue onward.
propompē: An escort or help on a journey.
προπομπή
The related noun shows the concrete support contained in this kind of sending.
εἰρήνῃ
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Peace as wholeness and harmony.
The phrase “in peace” carries the sense of being sent forward in wholeness. The verse joins the act of sending with the condition in which the person is held and received.
ALSO GROWS
eirēnē: Peace; wholeness.
εἰρήνη
This is the word in the verse: Timothy is sent onward within wholeness.
eirēneuō: Be at peace; live peaceably.
εἰρηνεύω
The related verb shows peace as a lived condition, not merely a quiet departure.
eirēnikos: Peaceable; conducive to peace.
εἰρηνικός
The word family keeps the focus on a whole, peaceable relation as he is sent onward.
THE PATTERN
Honor becomes visible when people are sent onward with care and received with regard.
Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:THE THREAD
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.The same Greek verb for “despise” appears in both verses. Together they reveal contempt as treating someone as nothing, while refusing that reduction preserves a person’s dignity and makes room for their example.
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