What Does 2 Corinthians 4:15 Mean in the King James?

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 4:15 · 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 Greek word for thanksgiving carries the same root as favor: what reaches you as favor becomes the many-voiced path by which God’s weight is revealed.

THE MEANING

What reaches your life serves your sake, and favor multiplies as many people give thanks. The outcome is not private possession; gratitude carries the increase toward the weight of God.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that favor ends with the person who receives it; here, favor passes through many people’s thanksgiving and returns as God’s weight.

THE ROOT

εὐχαριστία

eucharistia

GROWS FROM

χάρις

charis

Favor, freely given goodwill.

English places grace and thanksgiving in separate compartments, while Greek ⁨εὐχαριστία⁩ (eucharistia, thanksgiving) carries ⁨χάρις⁩ (charis, favor) within its own formation. This verse makes that shared seed a movement: favor received becomes gratitude voiced by many and overflows toward the weight of God.

ALSO GROWS

eucharisteō: To give thanks.

εὐχαριστέω

This related word shows thanksgiving as the spoken response that carries favor outward.

charisma: A gift freely given; a gracious gift.

χάρισμα

It links favor to what is received, while the verse shows that what is received can become shared gratitude.

THE PATTERN

What is received from God becomes a shared expression that returns honor to God.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Psalm 50:23 · KJVPraise offered to God becomes a way for God’s honor to be seen.

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

Romans 15:9 · KJVReceived compassion moves through public confession and song into God’s honor.

If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:11 · KJVThe ability God gives becomes service through which God is honored.

THE THREAD

For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

2 Corinthians 9:12 · KJV

This verse repeats the movement of abundance through many thanksgivings unto God. The shared word-family behind thanksgiving and favor makes the connection audible: what is received flows through many voices back toward God.

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