What Does Philippians 2:14 Mean in the King James?

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Philippians 2:14 · KJV

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 verse treats the grumble beneath speech and the argument in the mind as part of the action itself.

THE MEANING

This verse speaks into the work in your hands now: what is done and the complaint or contention accompanying it belong to one reality. “Murmurings” names a grumble that runs beneath speech; “disputings” brings the mind’s weighing of opposing claims into view. The action and its inner climate share the same frame.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a task remains whole when it is completed outwardly while resentment and contention accompany it.

THE ROOT

διαλογισμῶν

dialogismōn

GROWS FROM

λογίζομαι

logízomai

To reckon, count, or consider.

“disputings” in this verse is dialogismōn. This root family points to weighing and consideration, so the verse reaches the mental process that can precede an open dispute. Here that deliberation carries a contentious edge, alongside the more audible grumbling.

ALSO GROWS

dialogízomai: To reason or deliberate.

διαλογίζομαι

This related verb names the act of weighing a matter, revealing the thought process within the noun translated “disputings.”

logismós: Reasoning or calculation.

λογισμός

This related noun makes the reckoning family visible: inner reasoning can become a point of contention.

γογγυσμῶν

gongysmōn

GROWS FROM

γογγυζ-

gogguz-

Murmur, mutter, or grumble.

“murmurings” in this verse is gongysmōn. The word family has an imitative, grumbling sound-shape; Greek uses its noun here and its verb elsewhere for murmuring or grumbling. Beside deliberative disputing, it reveals two registers of friction traveling with the work.

ALSO GROWS

goggýzō: To murmur or grumble.

γογγύζω

This verb from the same family shows the complaint as an ongoing expression, not only a label for a disagreement.

goggystḗs: A murmurer or grumbler.

γογγυστής

This related noun names the one who grumbles, showing how the complaint can mark a person as well as an act.

THE PATTERN

Grumbling is treated as part of the shared act or provision it accompanies, not as background noise.

And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.

Exodus 16:8 · KJVThe repeated “murmurings” sit beside the bread and flesh, making the complaint part of how provision is received.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

1 Corinthians 10:10 · KJVMurmuring appears alongside a severe consequence, so the text does not treat it as harmless background noise.

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

1 Peter 4:9 · KJVEven hospitality is shaped by whether it is offered without grumbling; the inner register belongs to the act.

THE THREAD

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Romans 14:1 · KJV

Romans uses the same reasoning word-family as “disputings” in Philippians. The shared root brings its contentious edge into view: such reasoning can shape not only speech or service, but also how another person is received.

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