What Does Romans 4:22 Mean in the King James?
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
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 verse makes alignment something reckoned through trust, not a score the reader has to manufacture.
THE MEANING
The trust carried through the preceding lines is reckoned as alignment now: right relation with God is received rather than earned as a wage. The verse presents that reckoning as available to the reader in the present, grounded in trust rather than a flawless record.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you must first become morally flawless before God can count you as aligned.
THE ROOT
ἐλογίσθη
elogisthē
GROWS FROM
λογ- (log-), the stem of λογίζομαι
To reckon, count, calculate, or consider.
The Greek verb carries the image of an account being reckoned: the verse says trust is counted as alignment. That makes “imputed” more than a label; it describes how the standing named here is recognized.
ALSO GROWS
logizetai: is reckoned, counted
λογίζεται
In Romans 4:4 the same verb describes a wage being reckoned as debt, making the accounting image explicit.
logismos: calculation, reasoning
λογισμός
This related word retains the sense of reckoning, bringing the concrete language of counting into view.
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosynē
GROWS FROM
δικ-
dik-
What is right or just; conformity to what is due.
“Righteousness” can sound like a moral score, while δικαιοσύνη also carries the sense of what is right or just. Beside the reckoning verb, it presents alignment as what is recognized through trust, rather than what the reader manufactures.
ALSO GROWS
dikaios: just, right
δίκαιος
This related word names the quality of what is aligned with what is right.
dikaioō: to justify, declare or set right
δικαιόω
This verb from the same family shows how the language of rightness can describe a person being recognized as aligned.
THE PATTERN
God’s reckoning counts trust as alignment and does not charge crookedness to the account.
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.THE THREAD
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.Galatians uses the same Greek verb, λογίζομαι (logizomai), meaning “reckon” or “count,” to connect trust with righteousness. The repeated image is of alignment being reckoned, not produced as a wage.
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