What Does Mark 10:19 Mean in the King James?
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
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
This list makes quietly withholding what is owed visible as harm to a neighbor.
THE MEANING
These commands describe a life in which another person’s body, truth, property, and due are not treated as yours to violate. The list places deprivation beside adultery, killing, theft, and false testimony: harm includes withholding what another is owed. It speaks wherever your choices hold another person’s claim in your hands.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Only visible violence counts as harming a neighbor. This verse also names the concealed harm of withholding what belongs to someone else.
THE ROOT
ἀποστερήσῃς
apostērēsēs
GROWS FROM
στερε-/στερη- (stere-/sterē-), in ἀποστερέω (apo-stereō)
To deprive someone of what is theirs; ἀπό (apo) adds the sense of taking away.
“Defraud not” in this verse is apostērēsēs. The command uses ἀποστερήσῃς (apostērēsēs), a form of ἀποστερέω (apostereō): to deprive or defraud. Its word family holds the act and the resulting deprivation together, so the harm includes leaving someone without what belongs to them. James uses the same verb family for wages kept back, making that quiet withholding explicit.
ALSO GROWS
apostereō: To deprive, defraud, or rob.
ἀποστερέω
This is the verb behind the command and the phrase “kept back by fraud” in James 5:4.
sterēsis: Deprivation or lack.
στέρησις
The noun names what withholding produces: another person is left without what is due.
THE PATTERN
Neighbor-love protects another’s well-being by refusing both direct injury and the withholding of what is due.
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.THE THREAD
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.Mark’s command uses a form of ἀποστερέω (apostereō), to deprive or defraud; James uses the same verb family for wages “kept back by fraud.” The connection shows that defrauding includes withholding what is due, even when no property is visibly taken.
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