What Does Philippians 1:5 Mean in the King James?

For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

Philippians 1:5 · 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 gospel’s fellowship is shared participation in a common life, carried from its first day into the present.

THE MEANING

Your connection to the good news is a shared participation that begins and continues. What you receive is held in common with others, and that bond remains alive from its beginning until now.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The good news is not a private possession with fellowship as an optional extra; the verse presents sharing as part of its life.

THE ROOT

κοινωνία

koinōnia

GROWS FROM

κοινός

koinos

Common, shared; held in common.

English “fellowship” can suggest a feeling of closeness, while ⁨κοινωνία⁩ names participation in what is shared. “From the first day until now” makes that sharing continuous: the good news becomes a common life carried through time.

ALSO GROWS

koinōnos: A partner or participant.

κοινωνός

This branch makes the shared nature of the fellowship visible: each person participates in what is common.

koinōneō: To share or participate.

κοινωνέω

This verb shows fellowship as an active sharing that continues, rather than a label for a group.

THE PATTERN

What is held in common turns isolated effort into shared participation.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 · KJVShared effort brings a fuller result than labor carried alone.

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

Acts 2:44 · KJVThe community’s shared life makes the common root of fellowship concrete.

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:3 · KJVThe shared participation extends across people and into relationship with the Father and the Son.

THE THREAD

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Acts 2:42 · KJV

The word translated “fellowship” is the same Greek ⁨κοινωνία⁩ (koinōnia), meaning sharing in common. Its place alongside teaching, meals, and prayers shows fellowship as shared participation woven through daily life.

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