What Does Matthew 7:12 Mean in the King James?
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
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 desire inside you becomes a visible measure for how you treat another.
THE MEANING
The care you hope to receive becomes the measure of the care you give. In that reciprocity, the law and the prophets take shape in the way one person treats another.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that the standard you expect from others does not also shape your own actions.
THE ROOT
ποιῶσιν
poiōsin
GROWS FROM
ποιέω (poiéō; lexical stem ποιε-)
To do, make, or bring about.
“do” in this verse is poiōsin. The verse repeats the same verb for the treatment you want and the treatment you give. Its wider word family includes the doer and the thing made, so reciprocity takes shape in concrete actions people bring into one another’s lives.
ALSO GROWS
poiētēs: A doer or maker.
ποιητής
The desired treatment becomes something a person enacts, making the verse’s symmetry personal and active.
poiēma: A thing made or a work.
ποίημα
The verb’s wider family points to what action brings about between people: treatment becomes something real, not merely wished for.
THE PATTERN
Love becomes visible when another person receives the care one recognizes as good for oneself.
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:THE THREAD
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.Luke repeats ποιέω (poiéō, “do or make”) in both halves: it names the treatment desired and the treatment enacted. Desire and action are held inside one verb, making the reciprocity audible.
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