What Does Ephesians 3:21 Mean in the King James?
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
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
God’s weight is made visible in a gathered people, through the Anointed One, across every age.
THE MEANING
God’s weight is present among the assembly through the Anointed One. Its witness stretches through all ages, so the reader encounters a living communal expression that continues now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This loosens the belief that God’s glory belongs only to private experience or one passing generation: the verse locates it in the assembly and extends its horizon through all ages.
THE ROOT
δόξα
doxa
GROWS FROM
δοκέω
dokeō
To think, seem, or be regarded.
“glory” in this verse is doxa. Greek doxa carries honor, renown, and splendor; the Hebrew kavod (כָּבוֹד, weight) adds the sense of substance and gravity. Here, that weight takes communal form in the assembly and comes through the Anointed One.
ALSO GROWS
dokeō: Think, seem, or regard.
δοκέω
This verbal relative shows how doxa can involve what is regarded or held in esteem.
dogma: An opinion, decree, or established judgment.
δόγμα
This related word shows how what is regarded can take a settled, public form.
ἐκκλησίᾳ
ekklēsia
GROWS FROM
καλέω
kaleō
To call or summon.
“church” in this verse is ekklēsia. The word names an assembly: people gathered together. Its history includes the act of calling together, so the verse places God’s weight among a gathered people rather than in a solitary setting.
ALSO GROWS
klēsis: A calling or invitation.
κλῆσις
It makes the act of gathering audible inside the word for assembly.
klētos: Called or invited.
κλητός
It names those summoned into the gathered people described here.
αἰῶνας
aiōnas
GROWS FROM
αἰών
aiōn
An age, era, or span of time.
The phrase ‘throughout all ages, world without end’ carries repeated age-language. The assembly’s witness extends through the ages, generation after generation.
ALSO GROWS
aiōnios: Of an age; age-long.
αἰώνιος
This adjective shares the age-language that frames the verse’s horizon.
eis ton aiōna: Into the age; by idiom, forever.
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα
This phrase shows how aiōn language can express enduring continuation.
THE PATTERN
God’s weight is expressed through a shared witness that carries across generations and ages.
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.THE THREAD
To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.The same Greek word, doxa (δόξα), names the glory given to God through Jesus Christ. Romans makes the through-Christ and for-ever pattern plain, opening Ephesians’ vision of that shared weight across all ages.
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