What Does Romans 14:5 Mean in the King James?
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
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 Greek pictures conviction as carried to fullness inside your own mind, even while another person reads the calendar differently.
THE MEANING
You may hold one day apart while someone else sees every day alike. The verse places the judgment in each person’s own mind and names its completion as being fully persuaded.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that spiritual seriousness requires everyone to assign the same weight to every day.
THE ROOT
πληροφορείσθω
plērophoreísthō
GROWS FROM
πλήρης (plḗrēs) + φορέω (phoréō)
Full or complete + carry or bear; to carry to fullness, hence to be fully assured.
“fully persuaded” in this verse is plērophoreísthō. This word joins fullness with carrying: conviction is not merely a passing opinion but an assurance brought to its full measure. The phrase “in his own mind” locates that fullness within the person whose judgment is at stake.
ALSO GROWS
plḗrēs: Full, complete.
πλήρης
The fullness in “fully persuaded” suggests a conviction that has reached completion.
phoréō: Carry, bear.
φορέω
This component adds the image of conviction carried through to its full measure.
plērophoría: Full assurance, full conviction.
πληροφορία
This related noun makes the same family’s sense of complete assurance visible.
κρίνει
krínei
GROWS FROM
κρίνω
krínō
To separate or distinguish, and hence to decide or judge.
“esteemeth” in this verse is krínei. The Greek repeats κρίνει for both people: one distinguishes one day from another, while the other judges every day alike. The difference is the judgment each arrives at, not whether one person judges and the other does not.
ALSO GROWS
krísis: Judgment, decision.
κρίσις
It names the act of deciding that is present in each person’s assessment of the days.
kríma: Judgment, verdict.
κρίμα
It makes clear that “esteemeth” includes arriving at a judgment, whether that judgment distinguishes days or treats them alike.
THE PATTERN
Conviction is personal: another person’s conscience cannot supply the measure for your practice.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.THE THREAD
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.Romans 4:21 uses the same Greek verb, πληροφορέω (plērophoreō), meaning to be fully assured. Here, as in Romans 14:5, conviction reaches fullness within a person, though what each person is convinced about differs.
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