What Does Galatians 6:10 Mean in the King James?
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
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 household of trust receives particular nearness, but the verse keeps every person within the reach of good.
THE MEANING
The present moment is a fitting opening for good to take shape toward everyone. Those who share a household of trust hold a special closeness within that wider circle.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that belonging limits goodness to insiders: the household receives particular care, while “all men” remains in view.
THE ROOT
καιρόν
kairon
GROWS FROM
καιρ-
kair-
A fitting or appointed time; a season.
“opportunity” in this verse is kairon. The word carries the sense of a fitting moment, the opening when something can take shape. Good is not abstract here: it meets a moment that is present and available.
ALSO GROWS
kairos: Season, fitting time, opportunity.
καιρός
The verse presents doing good as something that finds its opening in a particular moment.
eukairos: Timely, opportune, seasonable.
εὔκαιρος
This branch makes the fittingness of the moment clear: the time is suited to what can happen.
akairos: Untimely, out of season.
ἄκαιρος
Its contrast highlights that kairos names a moment with a particular fit.
οἰκείους
oikeious
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
oik-
House, home, the place of belonging.
The people called the “household” are those who belong within a shared home. The phrase gives trust the shape of kinship: its members have a particular nearness, even as goodness extends beyond them.
ALSO GROWS
oikos: House, home, household.
οἶκος
This is the seed image behind the people who belong together in the verse.
oikeios: One’s own; belonging to a household.
οἰκεῖος
The word names closeness through belonging, which explains the verse’s special attention to this household.
oikonomia: Household management, stewardship.
οἰκονομία
It shows how the house-root extends into the ordering and care of a household.
πίστεως
pisteōs
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
To persuade, be persuaded, trust.
The “faith” here is trust: a leaning of one’s full weight. The household is marked by trust as a lived relation, not merely by agreement with an idea.
ALSO GROWS
pisteuō: Trust, entrust, believe.
πιστεύω
The verb gives trust an active shape, illuminating what binds this household.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable, faithful.
πιστός
This branch carries trust into the character of someone who can be relied upon.
THE PATTERN
Good reaches beyond the nearest circle to all people, while care within the community carries a particular nearness.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.THE THREAD
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.The same καιρός (kairos, fitting season) appears as “due season,” linking the present opening for good with the season when its fruit ripens. Together, the verses hold both the moment of doing good and the time of its harvest.
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