What Does Luke 18:30 Mean in the King James?

Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

Luke 18:30 · 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 “world to come” and “life everlasting” share one Greek root: the coming age is also the age whose life is promised.

THE MEANING

What you leave for God’s reign is met with far more even in the present time. The coming age holds the life that belongs to it, so the promise reaches beyond what you receive now.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that what you leave for God’s reign can only diminish your life: the promise includes far more received now and life in the age to come.

THE ROOT

αἰώνιον

aiōnion

GROWS FROM

αἰών

An age, era, or order of time.

The Greek uses the noun ⁨αἰών⁩ for the “world to come” and its adjective ⁨αἰώνιος⁩ for “everlasting.” English gives them different shapes, while Greek repeats the age-root: the promised life belongs to the age that is coming.

ALSO GROWS

age: An age, era, or order of time.

αἰών

This is the noun rendered “world” in “world to come.”

age-related: Belonging to or pertaining to an age.

αἰώνιος

This adjective describes “life,” repeating the age-word in the promise.

THE PATTERN

What is given up or sown toward God’s life can return enlarged, while its life reaches beyond the present age.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

Proverbs 11:24 · KJVScattering can lead to increase, showing that what is released is not always lost.

For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Isaiah 61:7 · KJVWhat appears as shame gives way to a double portion and lasting joy, echoing the promise of enlarged return.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Galatians 6:8 · KJVWhat is sown now reaches toward life in the age, joining present action to a life beyond the present.

THE THREAD

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 17:3 · KJV

John uses the same Greek age-word for “eternal” and describes this life as knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ. That opens Luke’s promise beyond duration: the life of the coming age is also a life of knowing.

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