What Does Romans 2:3 Mean in the King James?
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of 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 Greek links the act of judging others to the judgment you cannot assume you will escape.
THE MEANING
You can recognize and condemn another person’s conduct while doing the same things yourself. The measure you apply to them also reaches your own conduct; no one stands outside God’s judgment by judging others.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this verse undoes is that condemning someone else’s wrongdoing makes you exempt from judgment for the same conduct.
THE ROOT
κρίμα
krima
GROWS FROM
κριν- (krin-, the shared stem of κρίνω, krinō)
To distinguish, decide, or judge.
The Greek word for “judgment” shares its root with the verb translated “judgest.” English makes the act and its verdict look separate, while the Greek joins them: the one who judges others cannot assume exemption from judgment.
ALSO GROWS
krinō: To judge or decide.
κρίνω
This is the verb behind “judgest,” linking the reader’s act of judging to the judgment named in the verse.
krisis: Judgment or a decision.
κρίσις
It carries the same root into the act or process of judging, keeping the judge and the judgment within one word family.
kritēs: A judge.
κριτής
It names the one who judges, completing the root’s connection between the person, the action, and the verdict.
THE PATTERN
What a person sets in motion against another can return upon that person.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.THE THREAD
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.Romans 2:1 uses the same Greek word family for judging and makes the consequence explicit: judging another while doing the same condemns the judge. Verse 3 presses the same point into the question of whether that person can escape God’s judgment.
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