What Does Romans 15:6 Mean in the King James?
That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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 unity here is a shared passion that makes many voices one, giving God the weight of their common praise.
THE MEANING
You join one passion and one mouth, giving weight to God as the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. The verse presents unity as an inner movement made audible in shared praise.
THE ROOT
ὁμοθυμαδόν
homothumadon
GROWS FROM
θυμ
The Greek stem θυμ (thym) carries the sense of passion, heat, or inward impulse.
The word translated one mind is built around the language of passion or heat. It points to people moved by a common inward impulse, which the verse makes audible as one mouth.
ALSO GROWS
thymos: passion, heat, or anger
θυμός
This shares the θυμ stem and shows the force of feeling carried within the word translated one mind.
homothymos: of one mind or shared passion
ὁμόθυμος
This related form joins sameness with passion, echoing the verse’s picture of many voices moved together.
δοξάζητε
doxazēte
GROWS FROM
δόξ
The Greek stem δόξ (dox) carries the sense of esteem, reputation, and honor; in this verse, glory also bears the sense of weight.
The verb δοξάζητε belongs to the family of esteem and honor. The sense of weight adds a tactile dimension beneath glorify: the shared voice recognizes what is weighty in God.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: esteem, reputation, honor, or glory; weight
δόξα
The related noun names the honor and weight the verse’s shared praise gives to God.
doxazō: to honor or glorify
δοξάζω
This is the verb behind the verse’s glorify, linking the many voices to a shared act of honoring God.
THE PATTERN
When many people share one inward passion, their voices can give public weight to the same object of praise.
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.THE THREAD
And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:The phrase rendered with one mind in Romans and with one accord in Acts translates the same Greek word, ὁμοθυμαδόν (homothumadon), with the sense of one passion. Acts makes the shared movement audible as one voice lifted to God.
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