What Does 2 Corinthians 3:4 Mean in the King James?
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
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
Trust here is a settled persuasion carried through the Anointed One and directed toward God.
THE MEANING
Your confidence toward God comes through the Anointed One. This trust has a direction: it faces God rather than resting on your own standing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that confidence before God must come from your own spiritual performance.
THE ROOT
πεποίθησιν
pepoithēsin
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
To persuade or convince; in the passive or middle sense, to be persuaded, trust, or become confident.
The verse’s πεποίθησις (pepoithēsis, settled confidence or trust) grows from a root that holds persuasion and trust together. This is confidence with a ground and direction: it comes through the Anointed One and faces God.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: To persuade, convince, or win over; also to be persuaded or trust.
πείθω
The root makes trust more than a passing feeling: it carries the sense of being persuaded toward confidence.
pepoithōs: Having become persuaded; confident or trusting.
πεποιθώς
This related form shows confidence as a settled state, echoing the verse’s trust directed toward God.
apeitheō: To refuse persuasion, remain unconvinced, or disobey.
ἀπειθέω
Its opposite form makes the root’s range visible: trust and refusal both turn on whether one is persuaded.
THE PATTERN
Confidence becomes steady when it is directed toward God rather than resting on human understanding or strength.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:THE THREAD
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:The Greek noun πεποίθησις (pepoithēsis, confidence or trust) shares its root with the confidence described here. Philippians places that confidence in the flesh, while this verse locates it through the Anointed One and toward God; the root makes clear that confidence always has an object.
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