What Does Romans 2:11 Mean in the King James?
For there is no respect of persons with 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
God does not receive anyone by the face they present, so status and appearance cannot tilt his regard.
THE MEANING
God’s regard does not rise with your status or fall with your outward identity. The same impartial judgment meets you and every other person; no visible distinction secures special standing before him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that rank, pedigree, or appearance can buy you a more favorable standing before God, or place another person farther from it.
THE ROOT
προσωπολημψία
prosōpolēmpsia
GROWS FROM
πρόσωπον (prosōpon, face or person) + λαμβάνω (lambanō, receive or take)
Receiving or taking a person by the face, the visible identity or standing they present.
“respect of persons” in this verse is prosōpolēmpsia. The Greek compound carries the image of receiving a face: treating visible identity or standing as a reason to grant someone favor. English respect can sound like a private attitude, while the word points to partial treatment in the way a person is received.
ALSO GROWS
prosōpolēmptēs: A person who grants regard based on who stands before them.
προσωπολήμπτης
Acts 10:34 uses this related word to say that God is no respecter of persons.
prosōpolēmptéō: To favor someone on the basis of their person or standing.
προσωπολημπτέω
James 2:9 uses this verb for the act of showing partiality, making visible the action hidden inside the English phrase.
THE PATTERN
God’s regard and judgment are not tilted by a person’s visible identity or status.
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.THE THREAD
But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:Galatians uses the same face-receiving word family when it says that God accepteth no man’s person. The shared image makes the claim concrete: a face, rank, or reputation does not purchase a different reception from God.
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