What Does Galatians 5:10 Mean in the King James?
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
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 disturber must carry the verdict, the same Greek verb later names the community’s carrying of one another’s burdens.
THE MEANING
Trust through the Lord steadies your understanding when another voice tries to unsettle it. The one stirring the conflict carries the judgment attached to that act, whoever that person is. The verse holds mutual burden-bearing and personal accountability together: the community can share weight, but the disturber carries their own verdict.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that someone can stir confusion and leave its cost with everyone else: the disturber carries a judgment of their own, whoever they are.
THE ROOT
βαστάσει
bastasei
GROWS FROM
βασταζ-
bastaz-
To carry, bear, or take up.
The form βαστάσει (bastasei, “will carry”) comes from βαστάζω (bastazō, “to carry or bear”). The same verb appears in Galatians 6:2 for carrying one another’s burdens and in 6:5 for carrying one’s own burden: here, the agitator carries the verdict.
ALSO GROWS
bastazō: To carry, bear, or take up.
βαστάζω
This is the verb behind “bear”; Galatians 6:2 uses it for carrying one another’s burdens.
ebastasan: They carried or bore.
ἐβάστασαν
Matthew 20:12 uses this form for workers who have borne the burden and heat of the day, keeping the image of a load physically carried.
ταράσσων
tarassōn
GROWS FROM
ταρασσ-
tarass-
To stir up, agitate, or unsettle.
“troubleth” in this verse is tarassōn. The word ταράσσω (tarassō, “to stir or agitate”) pictures something being set in motion. The same verb appears in “Let not your heart be troubled” in John 14:1, where it describes an inward center being stirred.
ALSO GROWS
tarassō: To stir, agitate, or unsettle.
ταράσσω
The verse’s “troubleth” names an active stirring, not only the distress that follows.
tarassesthō: Let it be troubled or stirred.
ταρασσέσθω
John 14:1 uses this form about the heart, linking the agitator’s work here with the experience of inner disturbance.
κρίμα
krima
GROWS FROM
κριν-
krin-
To distinguish, decide, or judge.
κρίμα (krima, “judgment” or “verdict”) belongs to the word family of κρίνω (krinō, “to judge or decide”). The agitator carries a verdict; the phrase places accountability in view, whoever that person is.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: To judge or decide.
κρίνω
This verb shows the decision-making root beneath the judgment the agitator carries.
kritēs: A judge, one who decides a case.
κριτής
This related word makes the judicial weight of “his judgment” more visible.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses carrying both for mutual support and personal accountability: burdens can be shared, while each person still carries their own.
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.For every man shall bear his own burden.Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.THE THREAD
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.The verb βαστάζω (bastazō, “carry or bear”) appears in both verses. Here the agitator carries judgment; there the community carries one another’s burdens, placing personal accountability beside mutual care.
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