What Does Romans 1:7 Mean in the King James?
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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
Before the verse names favor and wholeness, it names you beloved and called as set apart, belonging arrives before achievement.
THE MEANING
You are addressed as beloved by God and summoned into a set-apart belonging that is already spoken over you. Favor and wholeness come to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The greeting reaches you before any proof of worth, naming relationship as the ground of the life that follows.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that you must first become spiritually exceptional to be loved by God or counted among those who belong to him.
THE ROOT
κλητοῖς
klētois
GROWS FROM
καλέω
kaleō
to call, summon, invite
The Greek address places called beside set-apart ones, so the summons and identity arrive together. This is an identity received from God, not a title earned by achievement.
ALSO GROWS
klēsis: calling, invitation
κλῆσις
The calling itself is something received, which illuminates the summons in this greeting.
klētos: called, invited, summoned
κλητός
This related form names a person by the call they have received.
ἁγίοις
hagiois
GROWS FROM
ἅγιος
hagios
set apart, dedicated to God
“saints” in this verse is hagiois. The word presents sainthood as being set apart for God, a shared belonging spoken over the whole community. It does not make holiness a badge held only by spiritual elites.
ALSO GROWS
hagiazō: to set apart, consecrate
ἁγιάζω
This verb shows the action carried in the same word-family: setting something apart for God.
hagiasmos: setting apart, consecration
ἁγιασμός
This noun names the state or process of being set apart, deepening the identity in the greeting.
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαρι-
chari-
favor, gracious regard, a freely given benefit
“grace” in this verse is charis. Here favor arrives from God and the Lord Jesus, rather than serving as a wage for the people addressed. Its word-family also includes a freely granted gift and the act of freely granting, so giving lives inside the idea of favor.
ALSO GROWS
charisma: gift, freely given benefit
χάρισμα
This branch makes visible the gift carried within the greeting’s favor.
charizomai: to grant freely, show favor, forgive
χαρίζομαι
This verb shows favor as an act of freely giving, rather than a reward earned.
THE PATTERN
God’s call forms identity through belonging: the people named as his are set apart before any record of achievement is given.
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:THE THREAD
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:This verse uses the same call-root, καλέω (kaleō, “to call, summon”), and addresses believers as saints, as Romans 1:7 does. The repeated wording makes the identity communal: being called and belonging to God are held together across both greetings.
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