What Does 1 Corinthians 3:22 Mean in the King James?
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
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 places leaders, the world, life, death, and time within your inheritance, while naming Christ as the one you belong to.
THE MEANING
The list gathers Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, and what is coming into one claim: they are yours. Your deepest belonging is to Christ, and Christ is God’s. Even death and what has not yet arrived sit within that belonging.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that your access to God or your future depends on attaching yourself to one human leader. The verse includes those leaders in your inheritance and locates your belonging in Christ.
THE ROOT
κόσμος
kosmos
GROWS FROM
κοσμ-
kosm-
Order, arrangement; also adornment.
The Greek word translated “world” belongs to a family about arranging and ordering, and also adornment. The verse names this whole ordered realm alongside people, life, death, and time, so your inheritance reaches beyond any single leader or present circumstance.
ALSO GROWS
kosmeō: To arrange, put in order, adorn.
κοσμέω
This branch shows that kosmos can name an ordered arrangement, not only the people or place called “the world.”
kosmios: Orderly, well-arranged, seemly.
κόσμιος
This related word preserves the sense of order, expanding what “the world” can suggest in the verse.
THE PATTERN
What God gives reaches across creation and every season of life, while the person receiving it belongs to God.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.THE THREAD
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans repeats the same Greek terms for life, death, the things present, and the things to come. Here they are yours; there, none can separate you from God’s love in Christ, so your inheritance and your security span the same whole range.
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