What Does 2 Corinthians 7:13 Mean in the King James?
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
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
Your care travels farther than its first recipient: it gives rest to Titus’s breath, and his joy becomes Paul’s.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to how your care can travel: comfort you offer reaches another person as rest, and that person’s joy can enlarge someone else’s. One act of shared care becomes joy across a community.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The comfort you give has no effect beyond the person in front of you.
THE ROOT
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνευ- (pneu-), from πνέω (pneō)
To blow or breathe.
English “spirit” can sound separate from the body, but πνεῦμα (pneuma) also means breath or wind. Titus’s πνεῦμα is what you all refresh: the word for his inner life still carries the sense of breath.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To blow or breathe.
πνέω
The verb behind the noun keeps its concrete breath and wind sense close.
pnoē: Breath or wind.
πνοή
This related noun shows how closely the word-family joins breath with the unseen movement of wind.
ἀναπέπαυται
anapepautai
GROWS FROM
παύω
pauō
To cease, stop, or bring to rest.
The verb translated “refreshed” belongs to the language of stopping and rest: Titus’s breath is allowed to rest. The verse pictures comfort as rest reaching a person through others.
ALSO GROWS
pauō: To cease or stop.
παύω
This is the root verb beneath the form translated “refreshed.”
anapausis: Rest or respite.
ἀνάπαυσις
This related noun names the rest that the word-family gives Titus.
παρακεκλήμεθα
parakeklēmetha
GROWS FROM
παρακαλε- / παρακλη- (parakale- / paraklē-)
Comfort, console, encourage; in some contexts, urge or appeal.
“comforted / comfort” in this verse is parakeklēmetha. Greek repeats the same word-family in “we were comforted” and “your comfort.” The grammar makes the exchange unmistakable: what you give reaches back to them.
ALSO GROWS
parakaleō: To comfort, console, or urge.
παρακαλέω
This verb is the form behind “we were comforted,” making relief an action exchanged between people.
paraklēsis: Comfort, consolation, or appeal.
παράκλησις
This noun is the form behind “your comfort,” showing that the same word-family links what you give with what they receive.
THE PATTERN
Relief travels through words and presence: what lifts one person can become encouragement for another.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.THE THREAD
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:Here, πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath or spirit) is what receives rest; in John the same word follows Jesus’s act of breathing on the disciples. The shared word keeps “spirit” close to breath and lets Titus’s refreshment read as rest reaching his living breath.
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