What Does 1 Thessalonians 3:9 Mean in the King James?
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
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
Here, joy is shared: another person’s life becomes gladness carried into God’s presence.
THE MEANING
Your gratitude before God is stirred by the joy another person’s life brings you. Their good becomes gladness you hold in God’s presence. Thanksgiving rises from this shared joy.
THE ROOT
χαρᾷ
charā
GROWS FROM
χαρ-/χαιρ- (char-/chair-), the Greek joy stem
Joy, gladness; to rejoice.
The Greek pairs χαρά (chara, “joy”) with χαίρω (chairō, “rejoice”), so the noun and verb share a word-family. The KJV’s “joy wherewith we joy” preserves that echo: joy is both what is felt and what is expressed for another’s sake.
ALSO GROWS
chairō: Rejoice, be glad.
χαίρω
This is the verb behind “we joy,” sharing its stem with the noun “joy.”
chara: Joy, gladness.
χαρά
This is the noun in “all the joy,” naming the gladness that the verb expresses.
THE PATTERN
Joy becomes shared when another person’s good is received as a source of gladness.
The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,THE THREAD
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.Romans uses the same Greek joy family as “we joy” here. It makes the shared movement plain: another person’s gladness can become joy you enter with them.
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