What Does 1 Timothy 1:19 Mean in the King James?
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
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 shipwreck of trust begins when a good conscience is deliberately thrust away.
THE MEANING
Trust and a good conscience are held together in the reader’s present life. The verse describes conscience as inward knowing whose rejection precedes trust’s shipwreck. The collapse begins with a deliberate pushing away.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that you can silence what you know and still keep your trust whole.
THE ROOT
συνείδησις
syneidēsis
GROWS FROM
οἶδα
oida
To know, perceive.
“conscience” in this verse is syneidēsis. The Greek word pictures a knowing within oneself, an inner awareness carried into one’s own judgment. The verse treats this knowing as integral to trust: thrusting it away comes before the wreck.
ALSO GROWS
synoida: Be conscious of; know along with.
σύνοιδα
This related verb makes conscience a form of awareness, not merely a passing feeling.
syneidēsis: Conscience; inner moral awareness.
συνείδησις
This is the verse’s good conscience, the inward knowing some people push away.
ἀπωσάμενοι
apōsamenoi
GROWS FROM
ὠθέω
ōtheō
To push, thrust.
“put away” in this verse is apōsamenoi. The word carries the force of thrusting something away, not simply forgetting it. The shipwreck follows a chosen rejection of conscience.
ALSO GROWS
apōtheō: Push away; reject.
ἀπωθέω
This is the verb behind put away, giving the rejection a forceful, active sense.
exōtheō: Thrust out; drive away.
ἐξωθέω
The related word carries the same outward force, illuminating how conscience is expelled from consideration.
πίστις
pistis
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
To persuade; bring to confidence or trust.
“faith” in this verse is pistis. Trust is reliance that grows from being persuaded, something a person can lean their full weight on. Here, rejecting conscience leaves that trust shipwrecked.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: Persuade; convince; in the middle voice, trust or be persuaded.
πείθω
The verb shows the movement from being persuaded to placing trust.
pistos: Firm, steady, trustworthy.
πιστός
This related word brings out the steadiness trust rests on, which the verse says can be wrecked.
THE PATTERN
Trust loses its course when inward knowing is cast aside, while a clear conscience keeps the inner life open to truth.
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.THE THREAD
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:The same terms, good conscience and trust, appear together as parts of one inward life. This verse opens the present one further: casting conscience aside wrecks the trust that belongs alongside it.
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