What Does Luke 1:75 Mean in the King James?
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
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
Life before God is not a sacred moment apart from ordinary time; it is devotion and alignment through every day.
THE MEANING
Your life unfolds before God in devotion and alignment through every day, so ordinary time is already within that relationship. The verse presents this as a continuing shape of life, not a brief sacred interval.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that life with God belongs only to prayer or worship moments: here, every day of your life is lived before him.
THE ROOT
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosynē
GROWS FROM
δικ-
dik-
Rightness, justice, what is fitting or due; here, alignment.
The Greek word carries the sense of being set in right relation, which the English word “righteousness” can make sound like a quality kept apart from daily life. Joined to “all the days,” alignment becomes the shape of a whole life before God.
ALSO GROWS
dikaios: right, just, aligned
δίκαιος
This describes the person whose life reflects the alignment named in the verse.
dikaioō: to justify, declare or set right
δικαιόω
The same word family links alignment as a way of life with being set right.
adikia: injustice, wrongness
ἀδικία
This opposite branch shows that alignment is a real relation to what is right, not merely a private feeling.
ὁσιότης
hosiოტēs
GROWS FROM
ὁσι-
hosi-
Devotion, reverence, and conduct faithful toward God.
“holiness” in this verse is hosiოტēs. The Greek word points to lived devotion, while “righteousness” names alignment; the verse holds both together rather than collapsing one into the other. Their setting is not a special hour but every day spent before him.
ALSO GROWS
hosios: devout, holy
ὅσιος
This related word describes the devoted character expressed in daily life.
hosiōs: devoutly, in a holy manner
ὁσίως
The adverb shows the same root describing how a person lives and acts.
THE PATTERN
A life before God takes shape as enduring devotion expressed through right conduct.
A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.THE THREAD
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.The Greek joins the same two word families found here: dikaiosynē, alignment, and hosiotēs, devotion. Luke’s “all the days” makes clear that this created life is expressed across the whole span of living before God.
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