What Does Luke 1:37 Mean in the King James?
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
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 “nothing” is every word or matter: what appears impossible remains within God’s capacity.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you where something seems beyond reach: its apparent impossibility does not define God’s capacity. What is spoken or unfolding remains within the scope of what is possible with God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The visible limits of your situation are the final measure of what God can do.
THE ROOT
ἀδυνατήσει
adynatēsei
GROWS FROM
δύνα- (dyna-), from δύναμαι (dynamai)
To be able; to have power or capacity.
The verb translated “impossible” belongs to the δύνα- (dyna-, ability or power) family: impossibility is framed as inability. The word rendered “nothing” is πᾶν ῥῆμα (pan rhēma, every word, utterance, or matter), so the claim reaches beyond an abstract idea to whatever is spoken or unfolding.
ALSO GROWS
dynamis: Power, ability
δύναμις
It names the capacity that underlies what is possible.
dynatos: Able, possible
δυνατός
It shows the same root in its affirmative form: having capacity.
adynatos: Unable, impossible
ἀδύνατος
The privative prefix ἀ- (a-, without) turns ability into inability, revealing impossibility as the absence of capacity.
THE PATTERN
What exceeds human capacity does not set the limit of what is possible with God.
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.THE THREAD
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.Both verses use the Greek δύνα- (dyna-, ability or power) word family to describe what is impossible and what is possible. Mark makes the distinction explicit: human capacity has limits; God’s capacity is not measured by them.
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