What Does Colossians 2:6 Mean in the King James?
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
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 one you receive becomes the very sphere in which every next step takes place.
THE MEANING
You receive Christ Jesus the Lord, and your steps now unfold in him. The one received is also the sphere of your ongoing walk.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that receiving Christ is a moment that can be finished and set apart from the way you move through life now.
THE ROOT
περιπατεῖτε
peripateite
GROWS FROM
πατέω
πατέω (patéō): to tread, step, walk.
“walk” in this verse is peripateite. The Greek compound joins the element meaning “around” with the root meaning “tread,” keeping the image of movement made step by step. “In him” places those steps within Christ, so the one received is also where the walking takes place.
ALSO GROWS
patéō: to tread, step
πατέω
This base verb makes the walking image physical: movement formed by steps.
katapatéō: to tread down, trample
καταπατέω
This compound preserves the same tread-root, showing the concrete action carried by the walking word.
παρελάβετε
parelabete
GROWS FROM
λαμβάνω
λαμβάνω (lambánō): to take, receive, lay hold of.
“received” in this verse is parelabete. This word family spans receiving and taking hold. The verse moves directly from receiving Christ to walking in him, joining what is welcomed with the ongoing movement that follows.
ALSO GROWS
lambánō: to take, receive
λαμβάνω
This is the root verb beneath “received,” giving the word its sense of personally taking in what is offered.
katalambánō: to grasp, seize, overtake
καταλαμβάνω
Its shared λαμβ-family extends the sense toward grasping, illuminating the active texture within the verse’s act of receiving.
Χριστόν
Christón
GROWS FROM
χρίω
χρίω (chríō): to anoint, rub or apply oil.
“Christ” carries the meaning “the anointed one,” rather than functioning as a surname. The verse speaks of receiving Jesus in this nature, then walking within the one so received.
ALSO GROWS
chríō: to anoint
χρίω
This verb names the action carried in the title “Christ.”
chrîsma: anointing
χρῖσμα
This related noun carries the same χρι family and makes the anointing itself visible within the title’s word-family.
THE PATTERN
What is received becomes the sphere in which a person walks.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.THE THREAD
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.This verse uses the same Greek walking verb, περιπατέω (peripatéō, “to walk”), and pairs walking in him with walking as he walked. It opens “in him” as a continuing pattern whose shape is disclosed by his own steps.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us