What Does 1 Peter 1:9 Mean in the King James?
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
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 “end” of trust is its arrival: the living soul receiving deliverance.
THE MEANING
Your trust has an outcome, and you are receiving it: deliverance of the living soul. The verse speaks of this as a present receiving, not an idea held at a distance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that the end of trust means mere cessation; here, its end is what trust receives: deliverance.
THE ROOT
τέλος
telos
GROWS FROM
τελ-
tel-
To reach completion or an outcome.
Telos can name an end, but also the result or goal toward which something moves. The verse presents trust’s end as an arrival at what it receives, not simply a stop.
ALSO GROWS
teleios: Complete, mature.
τέλειος
This related word shows completion as reaching a full measure, illuminating the “end” as fulfillment.
teleioō: Bring to completion, fulfill.
τελειόω
This branch describes movement toward completion, echoing trust arriving at its outcome.
σωτηρία
sōtēria
GROWS FROM
σωζ-
sōz-
Rescue, deliver, preserve.
“salvation” in this verse is sōtēria. The word belongs to a family that names rescuing and the rescuer. What trust receives is deliverance: the living soul brought through to safety.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Rescue, deliver, preserve.
σῴζω
The verb gives the action contained in deliverance: being rescued and brought through.
sōtēr: Rescuer, deliverer.
σωτήρ
This branch names the one who delivers, showing that the word family holds both the act and its source.
πίστις
pistis
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
Persuade, win confidence; come to trust.
“faith” in this verse is pistis. This word family joins persuasion with confidence and trust. Trust is more than an idea held in the mind; it is reliance that reaches an outcome, here named as deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: Persuade, convince, win confidence.
πείθω
This related verb reveals the confidence and persuasion carried within trust.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable.
πιστός
This branch links trust with what can be relied upon, illuminating faith as a leaning of one’s full weight.
THE PATTERN
Trust is not its own endpoint; it reaches toward life and deliverance.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.THE THREAD
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.This verse uses the same Greek words for trust and deliverance, describing those kept through trust toward deliverance. Verse 9 names that movement from its receiving side: the outcome trust reaches is now being received.
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