What Does 1 Corinthians 16:6 Mean in the King James?
And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
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 words translated “bring me on my journey” mean to send someone forward, making the community’s support part of the journey itself.
THE MEANING
Your movement can be held by other people’s welcome: staying together through a season and then sending you onward belong to the same care. The journey is not pictured as self-made; the people around you have a real part in helping it continue.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that needing help makes your journey less your own dissolves here; being sent forward by others is part of how the journey moves.
THE ROOT
προπέμψητε
propempsēte
GROWS FROM
πέμπω
pempō
To send.
“bring me on my journey” in this verse is propempsēte. The verb’s forward compound carries the sense of helping someone onward, including escorting or providing practical support for a journey. The verse treats departure as something a community can actively help make possible.
ALSO GROWS
propempō: Send forward; escort or help someone on a journey.
προπέμπω
This is the verb used here: the people around the traveler help send him onward.
sympempō: Send along with; send in company.
συμπέμπω
This branch makes the shared aspect explicit: sending can include joining another person in the act.
THE PATTERN
A person’s onward path is carried by people who welcome them and help send them forward.
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.THE THREAD
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:The same Greek verb appears in both verses for what companions do for a traveler: they send him forward. Here the phrase “bring forward on their journey” makes explicit that helping someone continue is itself a form of care.
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