What Does Romans 1:10 Mean in the King James?
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
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
“Prosperous journey” carries the sense of a way going well, while the request leaves that way in God’s hands.
THE MEANING
Your longing to reach someone can be spoken plainly without claiming control over the route. The hoped-for journey is a good way forward, held within God’s will.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This verse undoes the belief that desire and trust must cancel each other: the longing is expressed, while the route remains open to God’s will.
THE ROOT
εὐοδωθήσομαι
euodōthēsomai
GROWS FROM
ὁδός
hodos
A way, road, or path; in εὐοδόω (euodoō), a way going well.
“prosperous journey” in this verse is euodōthēsomai. The Greek verb combines εὖ (eu, “well”) with ὁδός (hodos, “way”). The phrase holds prosperity as a path going well, not merely as a successful arrival, while the verse keeps that path within God’s will.
ALSO GROWS
eisodos: Entrance, way in
εἴσοδος
This branch shows the way as an approach or arrival, echoing the hoped-for coming to others.
exodos: Departure, way out
ἔξοδος
This branch shows the same way-language at the point of leaving; a journey includes both departure and arrival.
THE PATTERN
A desired route remains open to God’s direction.
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.THE THREAD
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.The Greek word behind “prosper” here is εὐοδόω (euodoō, “to have a good way”), the same verb-root behind “prosperous journey” in Romans 1:10. One verse applies that good-way language to a journey toward someone; the other to a person’s flourishing.
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