What Does Philippians 1:7 Mean in the King James?
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
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
Grace here is favor held in common, shared across bonds and the work of bearing witness.
THE MEANING
The verse presents care as more than inward affection: you can be held in the heart while sharing the realities of constraint and witness. Favor is present as something shared, so confinement does not erase belonging.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that favor belongs only to those untouched by confinement or costly witness.
THE ROOT
συγκοινωνούς
synkoinōnous
GROWS FROM
κοιν- (from κοινός, koinos)
Common; shared; belonging in common.
“partakers” in this verse is synkoinōnous. The prefix συν- (syn, with or together) makes συγκοινωνούς mean co-sharers. The word places the Philippians inside a shared participation that holds across bonds and gospel witness, rather than describing favor as a private possession.
ALSO GROWS
koinōnia: Sharing in common; participation.
κοινωνία
This is the same family expressed as a shared bond, illuminating how the verse joins affection with participation.
koinōneō: To share or participate.
κοινωνέω
The verb form makes the root’s action visible: people enter into what another is carrying.
χάριτος
charitos
GROWS FROM
χάρις
charis
Favor; gracious regard expressed as a gift.
The word translated “grace” is χάρις (charis, favor), giving the shared participation the sense of favor received and extended. Here favor is present within the bonds and the defense of the gospel, not apart from them.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: To grant favor or give freely.
χαρίζομαι
This branch shows favor as something bestowed, fitting the verse’s picture of a shared gift.
charisma: A favor-gift; a gift freely given.
χάρισμα
This related word makes visible how favor can take form as something received and shared.
THE PATTERN
Shared participation carries both burden and favor across people who do not share the same circumstances.
And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.THE THREAD
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.The Greek κοινωνεῖτε (koinōneite, share or participate) belongs to the same κοιν- (koin-, common or shared) word family as συγκοινωνούς (synkoinōnous, co-sharers) here. Philippians names shared participation in favor amid bonds and witness; Peter names participation in suffering, showing that what is shared can include both the gift and its cost.
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