What Does 1 Corinthians 9:1 Mean in the King James?
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
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
Apostle means one sent, so the verse locates authority in a sending that becomes visible as living work in the Lord.
THE MEANING
Your life is named as visible work in the Lord. The verse holds that shared life beside freedom and sight of Jesus, joining a sending to the people who embody its fruit.
THE ROOT
ἀπόστολος
apóstolos
GROWS FROM
στέλλω
stéllō
To send or dispatch; in ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō), to send out.
The Greek family of “apostle” carries the concrete act of sending. Here that sending stands beside freedom and sight of Jesus, then becomes visible in the people named as work in the Lord.
ALSO GROWS
apostéllō: Send out, dispatch.
ἀποστέλλω
This verb shares the sending family behind ἀπόστολος and names the action carried by the apostle.
apostolḗ: Sending, commission.
ἀποστολή
This noun names the sending or commission embodied by the one sent.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
יָשַׁע
yasha
To deliver, bringing out from constriction into spaciousness.
The name rendered Jesus is Yeshua, from yasha: deliverance itself. Having seen Jesus, then, is bound to encountering the nature of deliverance at the heart of this sending.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
The same root gives a name for the deliverance carried in Yeshua’s name.
moshia: Deliverer.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This word names the one who delivers, connecting the name Yeshua with the nature revealed in the verse.
ἔργον
érgon
GROWS FROM
ἐργ-
erg-
Work, deed, activity.
The Greek word for work belongs to the same family as doing and the worker. The verse calls the people themselves “my work in the Lord,” placing the work in a living relationship rather than an abstract accomplishment.
ALSO GROWS
ergázomai: Work, labor, accomplish.
ἐργάζομαι
This verb shares the ἐργ- stem and shows the active side of the work named in the verse.
ergátēs: Worker, laborer.
ἐργάτης
This word names the person who works, extending the same root from the work itself to the one doing it.
THE PATTERN
A sending becomes visible through the life and work it produces among others.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.THE THREAD
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.The verb translated “send” belongs to the same Greek family as ἀπόστολος, “apostle.” Jesus’ words reveal the sending contained in Paul’s title: it passes through the one sent and reaches others.
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