What Does 1 Corinthians 4:2 Mean in the King James?
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
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 measure of a steward is the steadiness with which what is entrusted can be relied upon.
THE MEANING
What rests in your care now is where steadiness becomes visible. This verse names trustworthiness as what is sought in a steward: it shows in how you carry what has been entrusted to you.
THE ROOT
πιστός
pistos
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Firm, steady; reliable and trustworthy.
“faithful” in this verse is pistos. Here, πιστός describes what the steward is found to be: steady and trustworthy in what is entrusted. Its word family also names trust itself and the act of trusting, linking the steward’s reliability with the trust placed in that stewardship.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: Trust, reliance.
πίστις
The related noun names trust, showing the shared word family behind the steward’s reliability and the trust placed in them.
pisteuō: To trust, believe.
πιστεύω
The related verb names the act of trusting; the same word family connects trusting with being steady and reliable.
THE PATTERN
What is entrusted becomes visible through the steward’s reliability.
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.THE THREAD
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.The same Greek word, πιστός (pistos), appears in both verses: the steward is found steady, and that steadiness shows in what is entrusted. Luke makes the measure concrete by showing it in the handling of even the least.
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