What Does 1 Peter 4:13 Mean in the King James?
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
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 word translated “partakers” means sharing something in common, so suffering is named as participation in the Anointed One, not distance from him.
THE MEANING
Your suffering does not place you outside the Anointed One’s life; this verse names you as sharing in it. The weight of his presence is to be uncovered, and that unveiling holds a gladness beyond the suffering now. Rejoicing does not erase the suffering; both are held in the same sentence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that suffering proves you are cut off from Christ: it names suffering as a place of participation in him.
THE ROOT
κοινωνέω
koinōneō
GROWS FROM
κοιν-
koin-
Common, shared
“partakers” in this verse is koinōneō. The Greek word names participation in something held in common. Your suffering is described as shared with the Anointed One, not as an experience that leaves you apart from him.
ALSO GROWS
koinōnia: Sharing in common
κοινωνία
In Philippians 3:10, this noun describes sharing in the Anointed One’s sufferings, showing the same root at work.
koinōnos: Partner, sharer
κοινωνός
This word names someone who has a share in what another experiences, bringing out the shared sense of “partakers.”
δόξα
doxa
GROWS FROM
δοξ-
dox-
Weight, honor, esteem
“Glory” can sound like brightness or praise, while this word also carries the sense of weight. What is revealed is the Anointed One’s weight and worth coming into view; its seeming absence does not mean it is not there.
ALSO GROWS
doxazō: To honor or glorify
δοξάζω
This verb gives weight or honor, echoing the weight that becomes visible when his glory is revealed.
endoxos: Held in honor, glorious
ἔνδοξος
This related word describes what carries honor and weight, reinforcing the meaning beneath “glory.”
ἀποκαλύπτω
apokalyptō
GROWS FROM
καλυπτ-
kalypt-
To cover or conceal
The word for “revealed” carries the sense of uncovering: the Anointed One’s weight comes into view. The verse describes what is disclosed, not what must first be created.
ALSO GROWS
apokalypsis: Uncovering, revelation
ἀποκάλυψις
This noun names the act of uncovering, the same movement described when his glory is revealed.
kalymma: Covering, veil
κάλυμμα
This related word names what conceals; revelation is its removal, allowing what is already there to be seen.
THE PATTERN
Scripture holds present suffering and tears within a movement toward joy and revealed glory, rather than treating them as the final condition.
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.THE THREAD
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;“Fellowship” here is κοινωνία (koinōnia), from the same shared root as “partakers” in 1 Peter. The verse places that sharing in suffering beside the power of resurrection, opening the shared experience toward life beyond suffering.
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