What Does 1 Corinthians 6:14 Mean in the King James?

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

1 Corinthians 6:14 · KJV

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 same raising word-family that names the Lord’s completed resurrection also names the raising God promises for you.

THE MEANING

The God who has raised the Lord is also the one who will raise you by his own power. Your body is included in that future; death does not have the final word over embodied life.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The body is disposable, and death has the final claim over it.

THE ROOT

ἤγειρεν

ēgeiren exegerei

GROWS FROM

ἐγείρω

egeirō

To wake, rouse, or raise.

“raised up” in this verse is ēgeiren exegerei. The Greek uses forms from ⁨ἐγείρω⁩ (egeirō, to wake or raise) for the Lord’s completed raising and the raising promised for us. The future form adds ⁨ἐκ⁩ (ek, out), while keeping the shared raising stem that joins the two.

ALSO GROWS

egersis: Rising; resurrection.

ἔγερσις

Matthew 27:53 uses this related noun for Jesus’ resurrection, showing the same word-family in the name of the rising itself.

ēgerthē: He was raised; he is risen.

ἠγέρθη

The word used in Matthew 28:6 belongs to the same family and names the raising as an accomplished act.

THE PATTERN

God’s life-giving power raises people from the grave and carries embodied life beyond death.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:3 · KJVThe psalm speaks of God bringing a person up from the grave and preserving their life.

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

John 5:21 · KJVLife crosses the boundary of death through the Father’s and Son’s power to raise the dead.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Romans 8:11 · KJVThe power that raised Jesus reaches the reader’s mortal body with life.

THE THREAD

Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

2 Corinthians 4:14 · KJV

This verse repeats the same movement: the Lord is raised, and we are raised too. The shared raising word-family makes the promise one continuous act of God, reaching from Jesus to us.

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