What Does 2 Corinthians 4:14 Mean in the King James?
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
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 Greek uses the same verb for Jesus already raised and for you still to be raised: your future is carried by the very act named in him.
THE MEANING
God’s raising of Jesus reaches you too: God raises you and brings you into presence with others. Your future is described as a shared arrival, not a solitary one.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that death has the final claim over you or that restoration is something you face alone: the same God raises you and gathers you with others.
THE ROOT
ἐγείρας
egeíras
GROWS FROM
ἐγειρ-
egeir-
Raise, awaken.
“raised up” in this verse is egeíras. The verse uses this same verb for the raising of Jesus and the raising promised for you. Its word family holds waking and rising together, so the future here grows from an act already named.
ALSO GROWS
égersis: A raising, rising, or resurrection.
ἔγερσις
This noun from the same family makes the shared movement from waking to rising visible in the word itself.
egrēgoréō: To be awake or keep watch.
ἐγρηγορέω
This word belongs to the same recognized family through the perfect form of ἐγείρω: being raised and being awake share a linguistic branch.
παραστήσει
parastḗsei
GROWS FROM
στη-/στα- (stē-/sta-)
Stand, set in place.
The Greek word for “present” carries the sense of standing beside or placing in someone’s presence. The verse’s final movement is not only being raised, but being brought into company.
ALSO GROWS
stásis: A standing, position, or state.
στάσις
This related form keeps the idea of standing in view: being presented means being placed in a shared presence.
anástasis: A rising or resurrection.
ἀνάστασις
Built from ἀνά and the same stand-family, this word for resurrection joins rising with standing in a new position.
THE PATTERN
God’s raising of Jesus opens into life and presence shared with others.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:THE THREAD
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.The Greek “shall be raised” uses the same verb family, ἐγείρω, as the raising in this verse. Here that shared root opens onto incorruptible life and change, while 2 Corinthians places the raised among others.
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