What Does Romans 15:16 Mean in the King James?
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
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 gospel’s service is priestly: it brings the nations near as an offering welcomed and set apart in the Set-Apart Breath.
THE MEANING
The verse names you among the people the gospel brings near: the nations themselves are its offering. That offering is welcomed and set apart in the Set-Apart Breath, so sacred belonging reaches across the boundary of origin.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that your origin places you outside God’s welcome or beyond being set apart.
THE ROOT
προσφορά
prosphora
GROWS FROM
φερ-/φορ-
To bear, carry, or bring.
The Greek word for offering carries the sense of something brought near. The people from the nations are not merely assessed; they are the offering being brought before God.
ALSO GROWS
pherō: To bear, carry, or bring.
φέρω
This is the carrying motion at the heart of the word for offering.
prospherō: To bring toward; to offer.
προσφέρω
The same word family makes the offering an act of bringing near.
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνευ-
To breathe or blow; breath and wind.
“Holy Ghost” in this verse is pneuma. The Greek word carries breath, wind, and spirit within one word family. Here the offering is set apart in the Set-Apart Breath.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: To breathe or blow.
πνέω
This verb exposes the breathing movement held in pneuma.
pnoē: Breath or a blowing.
πνοή
This related noun makes the breath sense of the verse’s word visible.
ἡγιασμένη
hēgiasmenē
GROWS FROM
ἁγι-
Set apart; sacred.
“sanctified” in this verse is hēgiasmenē. The verse describes the offering as set apart. The same word family names both what is set apart and the setting apart itself, joining the offering’s welcome with its sacred belonging.
ALSO GROWS
hagios: Set apart; sacred.
ἅγιος
This adjective names the quality carried by the verb translated “sanctified.”
hagiasmos: Setting apart; sanctification.
ἁγιασμός
This noun names the setting-apart process that describes the offering.
THE PATTERN
People are brought near as an offering welcomed and set apart for God.
And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.Hebrews uses the same Greek word, προσφορά (prosphora), for “offering.” There, the offering and the setting apart appear together too, opening Romans’ image of the nations themselves as an offering set apart in the Breath.
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