What Does 1 Thessalonians 5:1 Mean in the King James?

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

1 Thessalonians 5:1 · KJV

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 verse holds duration and decisive occasion together, then reveals that a truth about both is already present before another explanation is written.

THE MEANING

The verse speaks to you within a shared kinship: time has its passing spans and its decisive moments, yet not every truth about them needs to be repeated in writing. What is already known can remain present without another explanation arriving.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Not every truth depends on being explained again before it can be known.

THE ROOT

καιρῶν

kairōn

GROWS FROM

καιρός

kairos

A fitting, decisive, or opportune occasion.

“seasons” in this verse is kairōn. ⁨καιρός⁩ names the moment as it comes due. Its branches show that an occasion can be timely or out of season, so the verse pairs not just how long time passes but when a moment is fitting.

ALSO GROWS

eukairos: Timely, opportune.

εὔκαιρος

It shows that a moment can carry the quality of being right for what meets it.

akairos: Untimely, out of season.

ἄκαιρος

Its contrast makes the timing’s quality visible: an occasion can arrive before or after its fitting moment.

χρόνων

chronōn

GROWS FROM

χρόνος

chronos

Time as duration, the span in which events unfold.

English gathers this under the general word “times,” but ⁨χρόνος⁩ names the span that passes. Its branch ⁨χρονίζω⁩ means to delay or take time, bringing the experience of duration into the verse alongside the decisive moments.

ALSO GROWS

chronizō: To delay, tarry, or take time.

χρονίζω

It reveals the waiting stretch that can unfold between one moment and another.

chronikos: Temporal, relating to time.

χρονικός

It carries ⁨χρόνος⁩ into the adjective for what belongs to time’s passing.

THE PATTERN

Scripture treats time as both a measured span and a fitting occasion, recognizable without being reducible to a written timetable.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Genesis 1:14 · KJVThe lights mark recurring seasons alongside measured days and years, holding fitting occasions and passing spans together.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:1 · KJVThe paired terms describe fitting occasions and spans as woven through every purpose under heaven.

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

Acts 1:7 · KJVIt uses the same Greek pair and places their timetable in the Father’s authority, showing that naming the times and seasons does not mean possessing their schedule.

THE THREAD

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

Acts 1:7 · KJV

The Greek repeats ⁨χρόνοι⁩ and ⁨καιροί⁩, the same pair rendered “times” and “seasons” here. Acts places the timetable with the Father, opening this verse as assurance about what is already understood rather than a promise that every date can be possessed.

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