What Does Ephesians 6:15 Mean in the King James?
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
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 footing of the armor is readiness grounded in wholeness.
THE MEANING
Your steps are steadied by the good news of wholeness; it is the readiness beneath your feet as you meet what is before you. Peace here is not stillness: it equips you to move.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that peace means being unprepared for movement gives way: here, wholeness is what makes the feet ready.
THE ROOT
εἰρήνη
eirēnē
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Wholeness; the Greek word-family carries the sense of peace as a whole condition.
The verse places εἰρήνη (eirēnē, wholeness) beneath the feet as their readiness. English peace can sound like the absence of conflict, but this word points to wholeness that steadies movement.
ALSO GROWS
eirēnopoieō: Make peace; bring about wholeness.
εἰρηνοποιέω
The same word-family can describe wholeness being made, showing that peace is something that takes shape.
eirēnopoios: Peacemaker; one who makes peace.
εἰρηνοποιός
This branch gives the same word-family a human expression: a person who carries wholeness into relationships.
ἑτοιμασία
hetoimasia
GROWS FROM
ἑτοιμαζ-
hetoimaz-
Prepare; make ready.
“preparation” in this verse is hetoimasia. The word carries the sense of readiness, not only a stage completed beforehand. That readiness is joined to the gospel of wholeness, making wholeness the footing from which the next step comes.
ALSO GROWS
hetoimazō: Prepare, make ready.
ἑτοιμάζω
This verb shows the action behind the readiness named here.
hetoimos: Ready, prepared.
ἕτοιμος
This related word makes the state of readiness explicit: the feet are equipped to move.
εὐαγγέλιον
euangelion
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελ-
euangel-
Good news; a message announced as good.
The gospel is not merely an idea held inwardly: its word-family includes announcing the good news and the one who announces it. The feet are ready to carry a message of wholeness into the world.
ALSO GROWS
euangelizō: Announce good news.
εὐαγγελίζω
This verb makes the gospel’s movement audible: the good news is spoken and carried.
euangelistēs: One who announces good news.
εὐαγγελιστής
This branch names the messenger whose movement gives the message a voice.
THE PATTERN
The good news of wholeness becomes movement toward those who need to hear it.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!THE THREAD
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.Both verses use εἰρήνη (eirēnē, wholeness). Here that wholeness is preached to those far away and those nearby; Ephesians 6:15 shows it as the readiness beneath your steps.
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