What Does John 15:7 Mean in the King James?
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
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 asking grows from a shared life: you remain in Jesus, and his words remain in you.
THE MEANING
As you abide in Jesus and his words remain within you, they shape what you want and ask. What you ask from within that shared life comes to be for you. The verse presents asking as an expression of indwelling.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that prayer guarantees any passing wish, regardless of whether Jesus’ words shape the one asking.
THE ROOT
μένω
menō
GROWS FROM
μεν-/μον- (men-/mon-)
To remain, stay, or dwell.
“abide” in this verse is menō. The same verb appears twice: you remain in Jesus, and his words remain in you. Its word family includes the Greek noun for an abode, revealing that this is a shared dwelling, not a passing visit.
ALSO GROWS
monē: Abode, dwelling place.
μονή
This cognate appears in John 14:23, where Jesus says that he and the Father will make their abode with the one who loves him. It gives the mutual remaining here the image of a home.
hypomenō: Remain under; endure, hold out.
ὑπομένω
The compound carries the same remaining root into endurance, showing that μένω (menō), to remain, can describe a settled persistence as well as dwelling.
γίνομαι
ginomai
GROWS FROM
γιν-/γεν- (gin-/gen-)
To become, happen, or come into being.
The verb rendered “be done” also means “happen” or “come to be.” The answer to the asking is pictured with the language of becoming: what is asked comes to be for you.
ALSO GROWS
genesis: Origin, birth, coming into being.
γένεσις
This word makes the family’s sense of becoming visible: the requested outcome is described as something that comes to be.
genos: Kind, offspring, lineage.
γένος
This branch names what comes forth as a kind or lineage, extending the root’s sense of arising into existence.
THE PATTERN
When God’s ways are held within a person, they shape desire and asking from within relationship with God.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:THE THREAD
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.The “abode” here is μονή (monē), meaning “dwelling place,” from the same Greek word family as μένω (menō), meaning “remain,” behind “abide” in John 15:7. One verse speaks of you and Jesus’ words remaining in each other; the other gives that shared indwelling the image of God making a home with you.
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