What Does 1 Corinthians 6:10 Mean in the King James?
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom 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
“Inherit the kingdom” speaks of receiving a share in God’s governance, so the verse names patterns that have no share in that order.
THE MEANING
The verse places theft, greed, drunkenness, verbal abuse, and predatory taking outside God’s governance. Its boundary speaks now: these ways of living do not belong to the order God rules.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that exploitation and abuse can coexist with a share in God’s governance.
THE ROOT
κληρονομήσουσιν
klēronomēsousin
GROWS FROM
κληρονόμ-
klēronom-
to inherit; to receive a share as an heir
“inherit” in this verse is klēronomēsousin. The verb carries the idea of receiving a share as an heir, making the verse’s ending about participation in God’s governance. The warning reaches beyond a single act to the kind of life that has no share in that order.
ALSO GROWS
klēros: lot, allotted share
κλῆρος
It reveals the share at the heart of inheritance.
klēronomos: heir, one who receives an inheritance
κληρονόμος
It names the person who receives that share.
klēronomia: inheritance
κληρονομία
It names what is received, the heir’s allotted share.
βασιλείαν
basileian
GROWS FROM
βασιλ-
basil-
kingship, royal rule
This word can name the reign or rule itself, and its word family includes both the king and the act of reigning. “The kingdom of God” thus carries the sense of God’s active governance, the order in which the verse says these patterns have no share.
ALSO GROWS
basileus: king
βασιλεύς
The king is the source of the royal rule named by this word family.
basileuō: to reign, rule as king
βασιλεύω
This branch makes the active exercise of kingship visible.
ἅρπαγες
harpages
GROWS FROM
ἁρπαγ-
harpag-
rapacious seizing, plundering
“extortioners” in this verse is harpages. The word depicts taking by seizure, carrying the force of snatching something away. Beside thieves and the covetous, it reveals a shared pattern of reaching into another person’s life to take what is not one’s own.
ALSO GROWS
harpazō: to seize, snatch
ἁρπάζω
It makes the forceful taking in the word family explicit.
harpagē: plunder, robbery
ἁρπαγή
It names the plunder produced by this kind of seizing.
THE PATTERN
Scripture describes inheritance as a share in God’s order, while showing that destructive ways of living need not define a person permanently.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.THE THREAD
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.Verse 11 keeps the warning intact while showing that the list need not be a permanent identity: “such were some of you,” followed by washing, setting apart, and alignment. The movement is from being described by these patterns to a changed condition.
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