What Does Romans 15:33 Mean in the King James?

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Romans 15:33 · 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

The verse places wholeness in the character of the God who is with all of you.

THE MEANING

The God whose nature is wholeness is with you, and the sentence includes everyone in its “you all.” That presence is shared across the whole group, not reserved for one person alone.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that God’s presence belongs only to a select few: the sentence extends “with you” to all.

THE ROOT

εἰρήνης

eirēnēs

GROWS FROM

εἰρην-

Wholeness, peace, concord

English “peace” can sound like a quiet condition, while this Greek word family also names living peaceably and making peace. Calling God the God of ⁨εἰρήνη⁩ (eirēnē, wholeness) makes wholeness part of the presence shared with all.

ALSO GROWS

eirēneuō: To live in peace, be at peace

εἰρηνεύω

The same stem connects wholeness with a lived condition, not only a feeling.

eirēnikos: Peaceful, peaceable

εἰρηνικός

This related adjective shows the same word family describing a quality shaped by peace.

eirēnopoios: Peacemaker

εἰρηνοποιός

This compound joins the peace stem to making, connecting wholeness with the work of bringing peace about.

THE PATTERN

Wholeness appears as God’s shared gift and presence, rather than a private achievement.

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

Psalm 29:11 · KJVPeace is named alongside strength as something the LORD gives to the whole people.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John 14:27 · KJVPeace arrives as a gift present with the hearer, not as a condition extracted from the world.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Philippians 4:9 · KJVThe God of peace is named as present with you, echoing the movement from divine character to shared company.

THE THREAD

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Philippians 4:9 · KJV

Philippians repeats the title “the God of peace” and the promise of presence “with you.” The shared Greek ⁨εἰρήνη⁩ (eirēnē, wholeness) makes the link clear: wholeness names the presence God brings among you.

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