What Does Matthew 5:27 Mean in the King James?
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
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 command names a breach of fidelity, and the next verse reveals that its reach extends into the heart.
THE MEANING
This boundary speaks into the life you are living now: fidelity concerns a bond, not merely what others can see. The words carry a relationship inside them, and Jesus’ next sentence brings their reach into the heart.
THE ROOT
μοιχεύσεις
moicheuseis
GROWS FROM
μοιχ- (from μοιχεύω, moicheuō)
to commit adultery; to violate the marital bond
“commit adultery” in this verse is moicheuseis. The Greek word-family names both the act and the people who commit it, keeping the relationship inside the word. English can make adultery sound like an isolated category; the shared stem holds the betrayer and the breach together.
ALSO GROWS
moichos: adulterer
μοιχός
The same stem names the person who commits the breach, not only the act.
moichalis: adulteress
μοιχαλίς
The word-family keeps both people and the violated bond in view.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names betrayal as a breach of relationship whose reach extends from outward conduct into inward allegiance.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.THE THREAD
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.The same Greek verb for adultery carries from the command into Jesus’ next sentence. There, the breach is shown taking shape in the heart before it becomes an outward act.
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