What Does Romans 15:17 Mean in the King James?
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
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 boast takes its shape from Jesus Christ and finds its field in everything directed toward God.
THE MEANING
Your confidence in what is directed toward God has its ground through Jesus Christ. The verse gives that confidence room to be named as glory, with its source held in him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that anything honorable in your relation to God must be credited to your independent achievement.
THE ROOT
καύχησιν
kauchēsin
GROWS FROM
καυχάομαι
kauchaomai
To boast or take confidence in a ground of honor.
The word translated “glory” carries the sense of boasting: naming what gives grounds for honor. The Greek wording places this boasting in Christ Jesus, so its ground is held within him rather than claimed as private possession.
ALSO GROWS
kauchaomai: To boast or glory.
καυχάομαι
The verb shows the act behind the noun: glory is voiced confidence in a ground for honor.
kauchēma: A boast, or the ground or object of boasting.
καύχημα
This branch can name what someone boasts in, illuminating the verse’s phrase “whereof I may glory.”
Χριστῷ
Christō
GROWS FROM
χρίω
chriō
To anoint, marking someone for a purpose.
“Christ” names the anointed one; it carries a nature, not merely a name. The verse locates its boast within the one marked for God’s purpose.
ALSO GROWS
christos: Anointed one.
χριστός
This is the title in the verse, naming the nature in which the boasting is grounded.
chrisma: Anointing.
χρῖσμα
This related word makes the anointing itself visible beneath the title “Christ.”
THE PATTERN
Boasting finds its true ground when it names the LORD as the source of what it celebrates.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.THE THREAD
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.The verb translated “glorieth” and “glory” belongs to the same boasting family as Romans 15:17’s noun for glory. This verse makes explicit where that boasting rests: in the Lord.
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