What Does Romans 3:3 Mean in the King James?
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
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
Human refusal to trust cannot make God’s own trustworthiness stop being trustworthy.
THE MEANING
Even when people do not trust, their doubt does not switch off God’s faithfulness. The verse holds human unbelief beside God’s trustworthiness and refuses to let the first define the second. It speaks wherever someone else’s doubt, or your own, seems to make a promise collapse.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief is that God’s promise is only as dependable as the people who receive it; their failure to trust cannot cancel God’s faithfulness.
THE ROOT
ἀπιστία
apistia
GROWS FROM
πιστ- (pist-), related to πείθω (peithō)
Πείθω (peithō) means to persuade or be persuaded; the related πιστ- (pist-) forms carry the sense of trust and reliability.
“unbelief” in this verse is apistia. The Greek sets ἀπιστία (apistia, lack of trust) against πίστις (pistis, trust or faithfulness) from the same πιστ- (pist-) family. That shared seed sharpens the question: a person’s refusal to trust cannot turn the trustworthy into the untrustworthy or end God’s faithfulness.
ALSO GROWS
pistis: trust, reliance; here, the faithfulness attributed to God
πίστις
This is the word translated “faith”; the question asks whether human unbelief can render God’s own trustworthiness ineffective.
pistos: reliable, faithful, trustworthy
πιστός
This related word describes the one who remains dependable even when others fail to trust.
apistia: unbelief, lack of trust
ἀπιστία
The negating prefix ἀ- (a-, “not”) marks a refusal or failure of trust while leaving the shared πιστ- root visible.
THE PATTERN
Human failure to trust does not cancel God’s faithfulness.
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)THE THREAD
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he can not deny himself.The Greek for “believe not,” ἀπιστοῦμεν (apistoumen, “we are untrusting”), and “faithful,” πιστός (pistos, “reliable”), belong to the same πιστ- (pist-) word family. This verse makes Romans’ question plain: human untrusting does not undo God’s reliability.
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