What Does Galatians 6:9 Mean in the King James?

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Galatians 6:9 · KJV

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 verse locates the break not in the seed or the season, but in the loosening of the one who is doing good.

THE MEANING

Your good work can feel unanswered while its season is still unfolding, but its harvest belongs to a time of its own. The word translated “faint” pictures giving out; the verse names that weariness as the point where the expectation of reaping can loosen.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A delayed harvest means the good you did has been wasted.

THE ROOT

ἐκλυόμενοι

eklyomenoi

GROWS FROM

λύω

lyō

loosen, unbind; in ⁨ἐκλύω⁩, grow weak or give out

Here the verb means to grow weak or give out; its base means to loosen or unbind. That word-family image adds something English “faint” can hide: the danger is endurance loosening before the crop is gathered, not an announcement that the sowing has failed.

ALSO GROWS

apolýō: release, dismiss, send away

ἀπολύω

This compound shares the loosening root and gives “release” a literal verbal shape.

katalýō: loosen down, dismantle

καταλύω

This compound uses the same root for loosening something until it comes apart.

ἰδίῳ καιρῷ

idiō kairō

GROWS FROM

καιρός

kairós

fitting time, season, or opportune moment

“due season” in this verse is idiō kairō. The phrase means “in its own season”: the harvest has a fitting time of its own. The word points to the right season, not simply to time passing, so delay does not by itself mean the harvest has failed.

ALSO GROWS

eúkairos: timely, opportune

εὔκαιρος

This word combines the season-root with a sense of what is fitting for the moment.

ákairos: untimely, out of season

ἄκαιρος

This word shows the same root by naming what falls outside its fitting season.

θερίζω

therízō

GROWS FROM

θεριζ-

theriz-

reap, gather a crop

“reap” in this verse is therízō. The same Greek word-family names the act of reaping, the harvest, and the reaper. It keeps the promised harvest connected to what has grown from the sowing.

ALSO GROWS

therismós: harvest, reaping

θερισμός

This noun names the harvest that is gathered through the action of reaping.

theristḗs: reaper, harvester

θεριστής

This noun names the one who gathers the crop, completing the same word-family.

THE PATTERN

What is sown comes to harvest in its proper season, even when the grower must wait between sowing and seeing.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Psalm 126:5 · KJVThe verse joins sowing to a later harvest, even when the present is marked by tears.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:7 · KJVThe grower waits through the season because the fruit is still developing before it can be gathered.

But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

2 Corinthians 9:6 · KJVThe harvest remains joined to what is sown.

THE THREAD

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Hebrews 12:3 · KJV

Galatians uses ⁨ἐκλύω⁩ (eklyō, grow weak or give out) for “faint”; Hebrews uses the same verb in “faint in your minds.” The shared word shows weariness reaching inward, while Galatians keeps the harvest tied to its own season.

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