What Does 2 Corinthians 1:13 Mean in the King James?

For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

2 Corinthians 1:13 · 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.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The words you read and the truth you recognize grow from the same root of knowing.

THE MEANING

The verse places reading beside recognition: what you take in can also be known. That recognition continues to the end, held in the trust expressed here.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It loosens the suspicion that the words before you conceal a second, inaccessible message: here, what is read is also what is recognized.

THE ROOT

ἐπιγινώσκω

epiginōskō

GROWS FROM

γινώσκω

To know or perceive; here, to recognize.

English makes “read” and “acknowledge” sound like separate acts, but both verbs carry the same Greek knowing-root. The sentence holds taking in words and recognizing them close together, then carries that recognition forward to the end.

ALSO GROWS

anaginōskō: To read; a verb built on the same knowing-root.

ἀναγινώσκω

The KJV’s “read” shares the root of “acknowledge” in this sentence, joining taking in words with recognizing them.

gnōsis: Knowledge or knowing.

γνῶσις

This related word makes visible the knowing beneath the verse’s act of recognition.

THE PATTERN

Words that are brought near can be received as understanding and recognized as truth.

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Psalm 119:130 · KJVThe words enter and bring understanding, expressing how what is received can become clear.

But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

Deuteronomy 30:14 · KJVThe word is described as near, already present in mouth and heart rather than distant or inaccessible.

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

1 John 2:21 · KJVWriting is joined to recognition: the truth being written is already known.

THE THREAD

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 8:32 · KJV

“Know” in John and “acknowledge” here share the Greek root ⁨γινώσκω⁩ (ginōskō, know or perceive). In this verse, recognition extends to the end; in John, knowing truth is joined to being made free.

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