What Does Philemon 1:17 Mean in the King James?
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
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
Partnership means sharing a common life so fully that receiving one person becomes receiving the one joined to them.
THE MEANING
The verse makes belonging tangible: welcome extends through the bond between people, so receiving one is treated as receiving the other. Its words speak wherever someone is welcomed in the place of a trusted companion.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that someone can be welcomed as a partner while the person joined to them is kept outside.
THE ROOT
κοινωνόν
koinōnon
GROWS FROM
κοινός
koinos
Common, shared; what is held or participated in together.
“Partner” carries the sense of one who shares something in common with another. The verse gives that shared belonging a concrete form: to receive one is to receive the other as oneself.
ALSO GROWS
koinōnia: Participation or fellowship held in common.
κοινωνία
The same root names the shared bond that makes this welcome more than a polite reception.
koinōneō: To take part in or share with another.
κοινωνέω
Partnership is not only a status; it is participation that joins people in what they share.
THE PATTERN
Receiving someone can express welcome toward the one with whom they share a bond.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.THE THREAD
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?“Communion” translates κοινωνία (koinōnia), meaning “sharing in common,” from the same root as “partner” here. That shared participation opens the force of the welcome: receiving one is treated as receiving the one whose common bond they share.
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