What Does 1 Corinthians 16:14 Mean in the King James?
Let all your things be done with charity.
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 Greek places everything you do “in love,” making love the space in which your life takes shape.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to the whole of your life: what you do takes shape within love. Love is present in the action itself, shaping how it meets another person. It gives all your actions a shared quality.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that love is only an emotion kept inside you; this verse places it in the way every part of life comes to be.
THE ROOT
γινέσθω
ginesthō
GROWS FROM
γιν-/γεν- (gin-/gen-)
Become, happen, come into being.
The verb rendered “done” carries the sense of “let it come to be.” Paired with “in love” (ἐν ἀγάπῃ, en agapē, in love), it frames love as the condition in which the whole of life takes shape.
ALSO GROWS
ginomai: Become, happen, come to be.
γίνομαι
This verb family makes “be done” an act of coming into being, not only a completed task.
genesis: Origin, birth, coming into being.
γένεσις
The same coming-to-be appears here: everything takes shape within love.
ἀγάπη
agapē
GROWS FROM
ἀγαπ-
agap-
Love, cherish, hold dear.
“charity” in this verse is agapē. The word family joins ἀγαπάω (agapaō, to love) with ἀγαπητός (agapētos, beloved). Its branches hold together the act of loving and the state of being loved.
ALSO GROWS
agapaō: To love, cherish.
ἀγαπάω
The related verb shows love as something expressed in relationship and action.
agapētos: Beloved, dear.
ἀγαπητός
The same word family also names the one who is loved, joining action with belonging.
THE PATTERN
Love binds separate acts into a coherent life, shaping what is done and how people are known.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.THE THREAD
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.The same Greek word ἀγάπη (agapē, love) appears in both verses. First Corinthians places everything “in love”; here, love is the dwelling shared by God and the one who abides in it.
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