What Does Romans 11:36 Mean in the King James?

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Romans 11:36 · 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

Everything has one source, one passage, and one destination, and all three are God.

THE MEANING

All existence has its source in God, moves through God, and is directed toward God. God’s weight is the recognition due at the center and end of everything.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that anything can be self-originating, self-sustaining, or ultimately detached from God dissolves here.

THE ROOT

δόξα

doxa

GROWS FROM

δοκέω

dokeō

To think, seem, or regard.

The Greek word translated “glory” belongs to a family of regarding and honoring. Here that recognition has weight: everything originates in God, moves through God, and is directed toward God.

ALSO GROWS

dokeō: To think, seem, or regard.

δοκέω

This root sense shows how doxa is connected with what is held in regard.

doxazō: To honor or glorify.

δοξάζω

This branch shows glory as recognition expressed through honor.

THE PATTERN

Existence receives its beginning, its means, and its direction from God.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1 · KJVAll things begin with God as their source.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:3 · KJVNothing that comes into being is outside the Word’s agency.

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Colossians 1:16 · KJVCreation comes through him and is directed toward him.

THE THREAD

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

1 Corinthians 8:6 · KJV

The Greek ⁨πάντα⁩ (panta, “all things”) appears here too, carrying the same universal scope. This verse names the source and the means; Romans 11:36 completes the movement by directing all things toward God.

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