What Does 1 Peter 2:23 Mean in the King James?
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
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
His refusal to answer harm with harm rests on where he hands the case: to the one who judges rightly.
THE MEANING
You see a person under insult and suffering who does not turn injury into another weapon. He entrusts himself to the one who judges rightly, so the harm is not denied and justice is not confused with retaliation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that refusing retaliation means pretending the harm did not happen or giving up justice: the wrong remains real, and judgment is entrusted to the one who judges rightly.
THE ROOT
παρεδίδου
paredidou
GROWS FROM
δίδωμι (didōmi), in the compound παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi)
To give; with para, to hand over or deliver.
“committed” in this verse is paredidou. The Greek verb means “handed over” or “delivered”; “himself” is understood from the context, while the recipient is explicit: the one judging justly. The verse places the refusal to return insult beside this handing over, and the same word family also includes giving back or repaying.
ALSO GROWS
didōmi: Give or grant.
δίδωμι
This is the basic verb inside “committed”: the action is expressed as giving something over.
paradidōmi: Hand over, deliver, or entrust.
παραδίδωμι
This is the verb used here and in Galatians 2:20, where Christ “gave himself” for the speaker.
antapodidōmi: Give back or repay.
ἀνταποδίδωμι
This branch makes the contrast in the verse vivid: insult and threat are not returned in kind; the case is handed over to the just judge.
THE PATTERN
When harm is not repaid in kind, the claim of justice is entrusted to a judge beyond the injured person’s retaliation.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.THE THREAD
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.The Greek verb παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi), “hand over” or “deliver,” appears in both verses. Here he hands himself over to the one judging justly; in Galatians he gives himself for another, revealing self-giving as the shared movement.
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