What Does Ephesians 6:23 Mean in the King James?
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and 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
Peace, love, and trust share one source here: God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE MEANING
Wholeness reaches the brethren, and love is joined to trust, with both coming from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. You stand within this shared gift now: love and trust held in divine wholeness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that wholeness and love must be produced by the community on its own, or that trust can be detached from love.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Peace, concord, wholeness.
The Greek word family includes both living at peace and the person who makes peace. Here, εἰρήνη (eirēnē, peace and wholeness) is shared among the brethren, joining the community in something that comes from God.
ALSO GROWS
eirēneuō: To be at peace, live in peace.
εἰρηνεύω
The related verb presents peace as a lived condition, not only a greeting or feeling.
eirēnopoios: Peacemaker, one who makes peace.
εἰρηνοποιός
This branch shows peace taking form between people, illuminating the shared wholeness named in the verse.
πίστις
pistis
GROWS FROM
πειθ-/πιστ- (peith-/pist-)
To persuade or be persuaded; the related word family carries the sense of trust and confidence.
“Faith” in this verse is pistis. The verse joins love with πίστις (pistis, trust), a word family that also names trusting and being firm or trustworthy. Trust here is more than agreement: it is leaning your full weight on what is reliable, alongside love.
ALSO GROWS
pisteuō: To trust, believe, or entrust oneself.
πιστεύω
The related verb shows trust as an active reliance, paired here with love.
pistos: Firm, steady, trustworthy.
πιστός
This branch reveals the steadiness carried within the word family of trust.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness is given by God and received into shared life.
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.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 word, εἰρήνη (eirēnē, peace and wholeness), appears here and names Christ as “our peace” in Ephesians 2:14. There, peace is the wholeness that makes divided people one; this verse speaks that same wholeness over the brethren.
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