What Does 1 Timothy 5:25 Mean in the King James?
Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise can not be hid.
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
Some good works are plain from the start; the rest cannot remain hidden.
THE MEANING
Some good works are already visible; others are less apparent, yet they cannot remain concealed. What you do not see at once is not thereby absent: the verse holds hidden goodness and manifest goodness in the same field of reality.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a good work has no meaning unless it is noticed immediately does not hold here; delayed visibility is not the same as disappearance.
THE ROOT
κρυβῆναι
krybēnai
GROWS FROM
κρυπ-
kryp-
To hide or conceal.
“hid” in this verse is krybēnai. The Greek says these works cannot be hidden. It does not say every good work is immediately noticed: some are evident early, while the rest cannot stay concealed.
ALSO GROWS
kryptos: Hidden, secret.
κρυπτός
This is the hidden state the verse says good works cannot remain in.
apokryptō: To hide away, conceal.
ἀποκρύπτω
It carries the same root into the act of keeping something out of sight.
πρόδηλα
prodēla
GROWS FROM
δηλ-
dēl-
Clear, evident, plain.
“manifest beforehand” in this verse is prodēla. The word joins “before” (pro) with “clear” (dēlos): some works are already evident in advance. The verse places this early visibility beside the works that become apparent later.
ALSO GROWS
dēlos: Clear, evident.
δῆλος
It supplies the sense of plain visibility within “manifest beforehand.”
dēloō: To make clear, show.
δηλόω
It extends the root from what is evident to the act of making something evident.
THE PATTERN
Goodness may be visible at once or concealed for a time, but it moves toward disclosure.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.THE THREAD
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.Both verses use κρυβῆναι (krybēnai), “to be hidden.” In Matthew, the city cannot be hidden; here, even works that are not immediately evident cannot stay concealed.
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