What Does 2 Thessalonians 1:4 Mean in the King James?
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
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 “patience” being praised is staying under real pressure with trust intact, not feeling untouched by it.
THE MEANING
The pressure around you is not erased by your endurance: the verse names persecution and affliction plainly, even as it names your trust. Your staying under that pressure is visible beyond your immediate circle and becomes a source of honor in the churches.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that continued hardship proves trust has failed: this verse places trust and persecution in the same lived sentence.
THE ROOT
ὑπομονή
hypomonē
GROWS FROM
μένω
menō
Remain, stay, abide.
“patience” in this verse is hypomonē. Hypomonē carries the sense of remaining under something, not simply waiting calmly. Paired with trust, it shows endurance that stays present while pressure continues.
ALSO GROWS
hypomenō: To stay under or endure.
ὑπομένω
This verb shares the noun’s sense of remaining under pressure.
monē: A place of remaining or abiding.
μονή
It echoes the root’s sense of staying rather than disappearing when difficulty comes.
θλῖψις
thlipsis
GROWS FROM
θλιβ-
thlib-
Press, squeeze.
“tribulations” in this verse is thlipsis. The word holds the image of pressure, something pressing in on you. Set beside endurance and trust, it keeps the hardship real while showing that it does not define the whole of your response.
ALSO GROWS
thlibō: To press or squeeze; by extension, to afflict.
θλίβω
The verb makes the pressure inside “tribulations” tangible.
thlipsis: Pressure or affliction.
θλῖψις
This is the word translated “tribulations” in the verse.
πίστις
pistis
GROWS FROM
πιστ-
pist-
Trust, reliance, trustworthiness.
“faith” in this verse is pistis. Pistis is trust: leaning your full weight on someone. Here it is present in the same conditions as persecution and pressure, so trust is lived reliance amid hardship.
ALSO GROWS
pisteuō: To trust or entrust oneself.
πιστεύω
The verb expresses trust as an act of reliance, not just an idea held in the mind.
pistos: Trustworthy or reliable; firm and steady.
πιστός
This related word shows the steadiness associated with trust.
THE PATTERN
Trust can remain active under pressure without making the pressure painless.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.THE THREAD
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.James uses the same Greek words, pistis (trust) and hypomonē (endurance), and says the testing of trust works endurance. That makes explicit the bond this verse displays: trust persists within endurance under pressure.
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