What Does Luke 1:6 Mean in the King James?
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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
“Righteous” and “ordinances” grow from the same Greek root, joining alignment before God to the path being walked.
THE MEANING
The verse gives you a picture of alignment before God as a lived path: the walk and the commandments belong together. “Blameless” names an integrity with no charge able to hold, a wholeness visible in the direction of a life now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that being aligned with God is only an inward label, separate from the shape of a person’s walk.
THE ROOT
δίκαιοι
dikaioi
GROWS FROM
δικ-
dik-
Rightness, justice, or what is fitting; here, alignment before God.
The word for “righteous” (δίκαιοι, dikaioi, aligned) and the word for “ordinances” (δικαιώμασιν, dikaiōmasin, ordinances) share the same δικ- (dik-) seed. Greek holds alignment and its ordered path in one word family, so the walk is alignment taking shape.
ALSO GROWS
dikaioō: justify, set right
δικαιόω
This branch shows the same root describing a person or matter being brought into right alignment.
dikaiosynē: righteousness, justice, alignment
δικαιοσύνη
It names the quality shared with “righteous,” making alignment the central idea of the family.
dikaiōma: ordinance, requirement, just act
δικαίωμα
Luke uses this root-family word for “ordinances,” linking alignment with the ordered path they walk.
THE PATTERN
Alignment before God takes shape as a whole walk whose actions correspond to what is received.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.THE THREAD
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.Romans uses the same δικ- (dik-) word family for “righteousness” and “just,” echoing Luke’s “righteous” and “ordinances.” It joins alignment with living by trust, opening the shared root into a whole way of life.
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