What Does 2 Peter 1:11 Mean in the King James?

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:11 · 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 entrance into the governance of the ages is itself richly furnished to you.

THE MEANING

You are promised a richly furnished entrance into the governance of the ages belonging to our Lord and Deliverer, Jesus the Anointed One. The verse places abundance at the threshold of that reign.

THE ROOT

ἐπιχορηγηθήσεται

epichorēgēthēsetai

GROWS FROM

χορηγ-

chorēg-

To furnish or provide what is needed.

“ministered” in this verse is epichorēgēthēsetai. The Greek verb carries the image of furnishing or supplying. Paired with “abundantly,” it presents the entrance as richly provisioned for you.

ALSO GROWS

chorēgos: A provider or sponsor who furnishes what is needed.

χορηγός

The provider’s role illuminates the verse’s image of an entrance being supplied.

chorēgeō: To supply or provide.

χορηγέω

This verb shares the supply sense carried by “ministered” in the verse.

αἰώνιον

aiōnion

GROWS FROM

αἰών

aiōn

An age or span of time.

Beneath “everlasting” is the Greek language of the age: the adjective describes what belongs to or characterizes an age. Here it gives the phrase the texture of the governance of the ages.

ALSO GROWS

aiōn: An age or era.

αἰών

This is the time-word at the heart of the phrase translated “everlasting kingdom.”

aiōnios: Of an age; age-lasting.

αἰώνιος

This adjective describes the governance as belonging to the ages.

βασιλείαν

basileian

GROWS FROM

βασιλ-

basil-

Kingship, royal rule, or governance.

This word family names royal rule, so “kingdom” carries the nature of governance. Paired with the age-word, the phrase opens onto governance extending through the ages, belonging to Jesus the Anointed One.

ALSO GROWS

basileus: A king.

βασιλεύς

The king is the one whose royal rule the verse names.

basileuō: To reign or rule as king.

βασιλεύω

This verb makes the active governance within “kingdom” visible.

THE PATTERN

God’s provision meets growth, nourishment, and entry with abundance.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5 · KJVThe prepared table and overflowing cup picture provision spread before the reader in abundance.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2 Peter 1:5 · KJVThe Greek supply verb behind “add” pictures virtue and knowledge as furnished along the path of growth.

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

Colossians 2:19 · KJVThe body’s nourishment is supplied from its Head, and that provision is joined to its growth.

THE THREAD

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2 Peter 1:5 · KJV

The word rendered “add” here belongs to the same furnish-and-supply family as “ministered” in 1:11. What is supplied along the path of growth and the richly supplied entrance form one continuous picture.

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