What Does 2 Corinthians 11:1 Mean in the King James?
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
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 verse’s supposed folly is framed by one repeated act of holding: even the request for room is spoken inside a relationship.
THE MEANING
When your words feel foolish, this verse lets the request for room stand without disguising the awkwardness. Its repeated appeal keeps vulnerability and relationship in the same frame.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that admitting folly disqualifies you from being heard: the request for room remains part of the conversation.
THE ROOT
ἀνείχεσθε
aneichesthe
GROWS FROM
ἔχω
echō
to hold; to have
The Greek verb ἀνέχομαι (anechomai), meaning “bear with” or “endure,” is built on ἔχω (echō), “hold” or “have.” The verse repeats this verb: its appeal for patience is itself spoken through the language of holding.
ALSO GROWS
echō: to have; to hold
ἔχω
The basic verb gives “bear with” its underlying image of holding.
anechomai: to endure; to bear with
ἀνέχομαι
This is the verb used in the verse, naming the patience the speaker asks for.
katechō: to hold fast; to possess
κατέχω
This compound shows another way the same root carries the sense of continuing to hold.
THE PATTERN
Bearing with another names the relational capacity to hold what one person cannot carry alone.
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;THE THREAD
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;Ephesians uses the same Greek verb, ἀνέχομαι (anechomai), meaning “bear with” or “endure,” that appears in this verse. There the verb describes bearing with one another in love; here, the repeated appeal places the need for patience inside the relationship.
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