What Does Ephesians 2:19 Mean in the King James?
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
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 verse moves you from living alongside God’s household to belonging within it.
THE MEANING
You are no longer an outsider at the edge of God’s home. You belong among the set-apart ones as one of God’s own household. Your place is shared belonging, not temporary permission to stay.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that you are only tolerated near God, never truly part of the family, is what this verse undoes.
THE ROOT
πάροικοι
paroikoi
GROWS FROM
οἰκ-
oik-
house, household
The word translated “foreigners” carries the image of people living alongside a household: παρά (para, alongside) + οἶκος (oikos, house or household). The verse pairs it with οἰκεῖοι (oikeioi, household members), turning the outsider beside the house into someone who belongs to it.
ALSO GROWS
oikos: house; household
οἶκος
This is the shared seed beneath the verse’s words for foreigners and household members.
oikeios: belonging to a household; a member of the family
οἰκεῖος
This related word names the belonging the former outsiders now share.
oikodomē: building; structure
οἰκοδομή
Ephesians 2:21 uses this related house-word for people fitted together as God’s dwelling.
THE PATTERN
God’s household makes room for outsiders and gathers people into shared belonging.
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.THE THREAD
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:The word translated “building” belongs to the same Greek house-word family as “household.” What begins as belonging becomes people fitted together as a dwelling.
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