What Does Romans 2:1 Mean in the King James?
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
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
In Greek, “condemn” is built from the same judging word, so the judge’s act already contains the verdict that returns to him.
THE MEANING
When you judge another for conduct you also practice, the judgment reaches you. What you recognize in someone else does not place you outside that same pattern.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that condemning another’s wrongdoing makes you innocent of the same wrongdoing.
THE ROOT
κρίνεις
kríneis katakríneis
GROWS FROM
κριν- (from κρίνω)
To distinguish, decide, or judge.
“judgest; condemnest” in this verse is kríneis katakríneis. “Judgest” is κρίνεις (kríneis), while “condemnest” is κατακρίνεις (katakríneis), a compound built on the same κριν- stem. The verse makes the judge’s own act of deciding part of the verdict against him.
ALSO GROWS
krísis: Judgment or decision.
κρίσις
It shares the judging stem and shows that judgment is a decision made, not a position safely outside the matter.
kríma: A judgment or verdict.
κρίμα
It names the verdict that this verse shows returning to the person who judges.
katakrínō: To condemn; to pronounce guilty.
κατακρίνω
This is the compound form used for “condemnest,” retaining the same judging root.
πράσσεις
prásseis
GROWS FROM
πρασσ- (from πράσσω)
To do, carry out, or practice.
“doest the same things” in this verse is prásseis. The reason the verdict reaches the judge is concrete: the person judging πράσσεις (prásseis), “does,” the same things. The overlap lies in practiced conduct, not just in an inconsistency of opinion.
ALSO GROWS
prâxis: Action, practice, or deed.
πρᾶξις
It carries the same word-family into the actions a person actually practices.
prâgma: A deed, matter, or affair.
πρᾶγμα
It links the root to the concrete things done, which the verse says are shared by judge and judged.
THE PATTERN
The standard a person applies outward reaches back to expose and measure the person applying it.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.THE THREAD
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.Matthew repeats the same Greek word family in “judgment” (κρίμα, kríma) and “judge” (κρίνω, krínō): the measure used to assess another comes back upon the one applying it. Romans 2:1 sharpens that return with κατακρίνω (katakrínō, “condemn”), a compound built on the same judging stem.
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