What Does Revelation 14:5 Mean in the King James?
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
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 joins a mouth free of falsehood to a person without blemish, making speech and standing one reality before God.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks of a life in which no falsehood is found in the mouth and no blemish stands before God. Your speech and your presence belong to one whole reality; the mouth does not hide a second self.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that truthful speech and integrity before God are separate matters.
THE ROOT
ψεῦδος
pseudos
GROWS FROM
ψευδ-
pseud-
Falsehood, a lie; the family also names the act of speaking falsely.
The word translated “guile” names falsehood itself, not just a polished or misleading way of speaking. The verse says no falsehood is found in their mouth, then joins that speech to their unblemished standing before God.
ALSO GROWS
pseudomai: To lie or speak falsely
ψεύδομαι
This verb shows the root reaching from falsehood as a thing to the act of voicing it.
pseudēs: False or lying
ψευδής
This form can describe someone or something as false, echoing the verse’s link between the mouth and the whole person.
ἄμωμοι
amōmoi
GROWS FROM
μωμ- (mōm-), with privative ἀ-
Blemish or fault; with the privative prefix, unblemished or without fault.
“Without fault” carries the texture of something with no blemish, not only a verdict cleared of blame. Beside the word for falsehood, it presents an undivided life: what is spoken and what stands before God are both unmarked by deceit.
ALSO GROWS
mōmos: Blemish, fault, or blame
μῶμος
This is the fault that the privative prefix removes in ἄμωμοι.
amōmētos: Blameless, without blame
ἀμώμητος
This related form is used for being found without blame, extending the root’s sense of an unblemished standing.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness appears when what the mouth speaks and what the person is before God agree.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:THE THREAD
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.“Guile” here and “a lie” there translate the same Greek word, ψεῦδος (pseudos), falsehood. What is absent from their mouths is also absent from the life of the holy city: speech and belonging share one root.
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