What Does Acts 25:8 Mean in the King James?

While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Cæsar, have I offended any thing at all.

Acts 25:8 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The speaker’s “I have not offended” is a claim of no missing across shared instruction, sacred space, and Caesar.

THE MEANING

You live under overlapping measures: shared instruction, what is set apart, and public authority. The speaker claims no missing against any of them. The verse presents integrity as one account that can hold across all three.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that sacred integrity and public integrity require separate selves is undone here: the speaker makes one claim across both.

THE ROOT

ἥμαρτον

hēmarton

GROWS FROM

⁨ἁμαρτ-⁩ (hamart-), from ⁨ἁμαρτάνω⁩ (hamartanō)

to miss; to err

“offended” in this verse is hēmarton. The speaker says he has not missed against the instruction, the temple, or Caesar. The verb-family keeps offense connected to missing: the claim reaches across three spheres while remaining one claim.

ALSO GROWS

hamartia: missing; error

ἁμαρτία

This noun gives the same missing a name; Romans 3:23 uses the verb family in its broad claim that all have sinned.

hamartōlos: one who misses; sinner

ἁμαρτωλός

The same root can describe a person associated with missing, linking this specific denial of an offense to a wider human condition.

THE PATTERN

Integrity remains one account when it is examined across distinct spheres of authority.

A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

Psalm 26:1 · KJVThe speaker places his integrity before judgment and presents it as a life that holds together.

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

1 Samuel 12:3 · KJVIntegrity is tested through specific charges of taking, defrauding, oppressing, and accepting a bribe.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

2 Corinthians 1:12 · KJVThe speaker connects inner conscience with conduct visible in the world and among others.

THE THREAD

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 3:23 · KJV

Acts 25:8 uses ⁨ἥμαρτον⁩ (hēmarton, “I missed/erred”); Romans 3:23 has the same written verb form, with “all” as its subject: “all have sinned.” One root links a specific defense against a charge with a universal account of human missing.

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