What Does Ephesians 1:2 Mean in the King James?
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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
Favor and wholeness are spoken directly to you, coming from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE MEANING
Favor is spoken toward you, and wholeness comes to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. These are named as gifts with a source beyond your own effort.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that you must produce wholeness by yourself gives way here: peace comes from God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE ROOT
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαρ-
char-
favor, gracious goodwill
The KJV word “grace” carries the sense of favor directed toward you. Its word family shows favor taking form as a freely given gift and as an act of granting.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: to grant freely, show favor, or forgive
χαρίζομαι
Favor is not only an attitude; it can become a release or grant extended to someone.
charisma: a gift or favor freely given
χάρισμα
This branch makes visible how favor can arrive as something received.
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
wholeness, peace
“Peace” here holds more than the absence of disturbance: it names wholeness addressed to you. Related words carry that wholeness into a way of living and a quality of life.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: to live in peace or be at peace
εἰρηνεύω
The same word family lets peace describe an ongoing condition, not only a moment of calm.
eirēnikos: peaceable, characterized by peace
εἰρηνικός
Wholeness becomes a quality that can mark what a person or action is like.
THE PATTERN
God’s favor and wholeness reach people as gifts from their source.
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.THE THREAD
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;The same Greek word for peace appears here, where Christ himself is called “our peace.” Wholeness is not merely a calm feeling; it is also the mending of division.
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