What Does 1 Timothy 2:15 Mean in the King James?
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
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
A singular “she” and a plural “they” sit in the same promise, linking deliverance through childbearing with a continuing practice shared across people.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks deliverance through childbearing and ties that passage to ongoing trust, faithful love, set-apartness, and sound judgment. It moves from the singular “she” to the plural “they,” holding this bodily passage within a continuing life shared by a group.
THE ROOT
σῴζω
sōzō
GROWS FROM
σωζ-
sōz-
Rescue, keep safe, bring through.
The verb-family holds rescue and restoration in one word, so “saved” can carry the sense of being brought through toward wholeness. “Through childbearing” gives this deliverance a named, embodied passage.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēr: Deliverer
σωτήρ
The same word-family names the one who brings someone through, keeping the verse’s focus on deliverance.
sōtēria: Deliverance
σωτηρία
This noun makes explicit the rescue carried by the verb translated “saved” here.
τεκνογονία
teknogonia
GROWS FROM
γον- (gon-, related to γεν- [gen-])
Begetting, offspring, coming into being.
“childbearing” in this verse is teknogonia. The Greek compound joins “child” with “begetting,” holding the arrival of offspring inside the word. It frames the passage as the embodied bringing forth of children, alongside a condition stated for “they” in continuing trust and love.
ALSO GROWS
gonos: Offspring, progeny, seed
γόνος
This branch names what is brought forth, making the life-bearing sense in “childbearing” visible.
goneus: Parent, begetter
γονεύς
This branch names the relation of begetting that is carried in the verse’s word for childbearing.
THE PATTERN
Across Scripture, childbirth is a passage where pain and the arrival of life meet.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.THE THREAD
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.Luke 8:48 uses the same verb σῴζω (sōzō, rescue or restore to wholeness), rendered there as “made thee whole.” The shared root lets “saved” here carry the breadth of being brought through and restored, while this verse names childbearing as its passage.
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