What Does 1 Corinthians 4:5 Mean in the King James?
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
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 final verdict waits until the heart’s hidden intentions are visible, because what you see now is not yet the whole person.
THE MEANING
Your view of another person remains partial while the heart’s purposes are hidden. The Lord’s coming brings what is concealed into light and makes those purposes visible; judgment waits for that disclosure. Then each person receives praise from God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The visible record is enough to deliver a final verdict about a person.
THE ROOT
κρυπτά
krypta
GROWS FROM
κρυπ-
krypt-
To hide or conceal; hidden from view.
“hidden things” in this verse is krypta. The same seed describes concealment as both an act and a condition: these things are beyond the reach of an observer’s present verdict. The verse’s limit on judgment follows from that gap in visibility.
ALSO GROWS
kryptō: To hide, conceal.
κρύπτω
This verb names the act that leaves something hidden from view.
apokryphos: Hidden, secret.
ἀπόκρυφος
This related adjective carries the same concealed quality that the Lord brings into the open.
φανερώσει
phanerōsei
GROWS FROM
φανερ-
phaner-
To appear or become visible.
To make manifest is to bring something into view. Paired with the hidden things, this describes a change in what can be seen, reaching even the heart’s contents.
ALSO GROWS
phaneros: Visible, apparent.
φανερός
The adjective names the state of becoming visible that the verse’s verb brings about.
phanerōsis: Manifestation, disclosure.
φανέρωσις
This related noun names the disclosure that makes the heart’s counsels known.
βουλάς
boulas
GROWS FROM
βουλ-
boul-
Purpose, intention, plan.
“counsels” in this verse is boulas. The plural points to purposes formed within the heart, not merely words spoken aloud. The Lord’s disclosure reaches the intention beneath outward action.
ALSO GROWS
bouleuō: To deliberate, plan.
βουλεύω
This verb shows the root’s connection to a purpose taking shape.
boulomai: To will, intend.
βούλομαι
This verb connects the heart’s counsels with what a person inwardly intends.
THE PATTERN
A final judgment waits until hidden things and inner purposes are brought into view.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.THE THREAD
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.The same Greek verb φανερόω (phaneroō, make visible) appears here and in 4:5: the day makes the work visible, while the Lord makes the heart’s counsels visible. Disclosure reaches the hidden substance as well as the outward work.
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