What Does 2 Corinthians 1:9 Mean in the King James?
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
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 death verdict exposes where self-reliance ends and places trust in the God whose reach includes the dead.
THE MEANING
You can carry a sentence of death within yourself, where confidence in your own power has nowhere left to stand. The verse locates trust in God, whose power reaches the dead and raises them.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that your life is secure only when you can preserve it yourself.
THE ROOT
πεποιθότες
pepoithotes
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
To persuade or win over; in this family, to be convinced and rely with confidence.
This verb family carries the sense of persuasion and settled confidence, making trust a placed reliance rather than a vague feeling. Here the reliance moves from ourselves to God, whose action reaches the dead.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: To persuade or convince.
πείθω
Trust grows from being persuaded, revealing confidence as reliance placed in someone.
pepoithēsis: Confidence or assured reliance.
πεποίθησις
This related noun makes explicit that the trust in the verse is settled reliance.
ἐγείροντι
egeironti
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
To awaken, rouse, or raise up.
“raiseth” in this verse is egeironti. The Greek verb spans waking and raising from death, so God’s action reaches into death with the force of awakening. Its related noun ἔγερσις names a raising.
ALSO GROWS
diegeirō: To wake or rouse.
διεγείρω
This related verb shows the awakening sense within the same word family.
egersis: A raising or resurrection.
ἔγερσις
This noun names the act of raising, bringing the verse’s life-giving action into view.
THE PATTERN
Trust rests in God because death lies within the reach of God’s life-giving action.
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.THE THREAD
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.Both verses use the Greek verb ἐγείρω (egeirō), meaning to awaken, rouse, or raise up. Hebrews makes the basis for trust in 2 Corinthians visible: God’s reach includes raising someone from the dead.
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