ris3n's Apologetics Codex

Passage

1 Corinthians 16.22

Book: 1 Corinthians · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

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ASV

20. All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss. 21. The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

22. If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.

  1. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 24. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. (1 Corinthians 16:20-24, ASV)
WEB

20. All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 21. This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

22. If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!

  1. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 24. My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen. (1 Corinthians 16:20-24, WEB)
KJV

20. All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss. 21. The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

  1. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 24. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus. (1 Corinthians 16:20-24, KJV)
YLT

20. salute you do all the brethren; salute ye one another in an holy kiss. 21. The salutation of [me] Paul with my hand;

22. if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

  1. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you; 24. my love [is] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. (1 Corinthians 16:20-24, YLT)

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Setting

  • Speaker: Paul the Apostle, with Sosthenes named as co-sender
  • Audience: the church at Corinth, a divided congregation in a wealthy Roman colony
  • Location: written from Ephesus during the third missionary journey
  • Time period: c. AD 53-55

Theological reading

If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!

The letter's closing lines, and the second sentence preserves an Aramaic phrase, marana tha, in a letter written in Greek to a Greek city.

That is the verse's chief evidential weight. An Aramaic liturgical formula addressing Jesus as Lord and calling on him to come was current in the earliest Aramaic-speaking church, before the Gentile mission, and Paul can drop it untranslated because his readers know it.

The significance for christology is direct. The formula is a prayer addressed to Jesus, and prayer to a figure other than God is not something a Jewish monotheist does casually. Its Aramaic form places that practice at the earliest recoverable stage rather than as a later Hellenistic development. See Jesus Never Claimed to Be God Objection Defeater Premise 3 on the earliest layer already being high.

Revelation closes with the same petition in Greek: come, Lord Jesus.

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

  • ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
  • WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
  • KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
  • YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See Bibles for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.