What Does 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Mean in the King James?
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
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
Hope here is the strength to remain under pressure, while trust and love become visible in what they do.
THE MEANING
Your trust takes shape as work, your love as labor, and your hope as endurance in the Lord Jesus Christ. God sees this living pattern even when other people do not.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that trust is merely inward agreement and hope is passive waiting: here, trust works, love bears effort, and hope stays under strain.
THE ROOT
ὑπομονῆς
hypomonēs
GROWS FROM
μένω
μένω (menō) means remain, stay, abide; in the compound, the sense is remaining under or enduring.
The word translated patience belongs to the ὑπομένω (hypomenō, remain under or endure) family, built on μένω (menō, remain or stay). Hope here is continuing presence, not simply positive expectation.
ALSO GROWS
hypomenō: endure, remain under
ὑπομένω
This compound gives the verse’s patience its sense of staying through what presses on you.
menō: remain, stay, abide
μένω
The root shows endurance as a form of continued presence.
monē: dwelling, abode
μονή
This related form connects remaining with dwelling, opening hope as a way of staying present.
πίστεως
pisteōs
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
πειθ- (peith-) carries the sense of persuading or being persuaded, leading to trust.
πίστις (pistis, trust or faith) belongs to the πείθω (peithō, persuade) family: trust is persuasion one can lean into. Here that trust is not detached opinion; it takes shape as work.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: persuade, convince
πείθω
This related verb shows trust as something that has taken hold of a person.
apeitheō: refuse to be persuaded, disobey
ἀπειθέω
Its opposite reveals that trust involves a response, not bare agreement.
peitharcheō: obey, yield to authority
πειθαρχέω
The same family links being persuaded with a response that becomes visible in action.
κόπου
kopou
GROWS FROM
κοπ-
κοπ- (kop-) carries the sense of striking or cutting, and extends to toil and weariness.
The word translated labour belongs to a family whose core verb means to strike or cut, and whose branches also name toil and fatigue. Love appears here as work that costs energy and wears on the worker.
ALSO GROWS
koptō: strike, cut
κόπτω
This verb gives the family its concrete sense of force and impact.
kopiaō: toil, labor
κοπιάω
This branch names the exertion of sustained work.
kopos: toil, labor, fatigue
κόπος
This noun shows the weariness carried in the verse’s word for labour.
THE PATTERN
Trust, love, and hope become recognizable through the work, toil, and staying power they produce.
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.THE THREAD
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.The Greek verb behind abide is μένω (menō), remain or stay, the same root beneath the endurance named here. The branch bears fruit by remaining in the vine, so hope’s endurance appears as connected staying, not isolated grit.
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