What Does Romans 4:25 Mean in the King James?
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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 same “for” binds both movements: he is handed over in relation to our trespasses and raised in relation to our alignment.
THE MEANING
Your trespasses and your alignment are held together in one movement: the one handed over for them is raised for your alignment. The verse locates that alignment in the risen one, not in your effort to repair yourself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that your trespasses leave you permanently outside alignment dissolves here: they are named alongside the handing-over, while his raising is bound to your alignment.
THE ROOT
δικαίωσιν
dikaiōsin
GROWS FROM
δικαιόω
dikaioō
To justify, vindicate, or set right; the word family carries the sense of alignment.
English “justification” can sound like a verdict alone, while this word family also speaks of being set right. The verse binds that alignment to the raising of the one handed over for our trespasses.
ALSO GROWS
dikaios: Just, right, aligned
δίκαιος
This branch shows the right-standing carried by the same word family as “justification.”
dikaiosynē: Righteousness, justice, alignment
δικαιοσύνη
This branch names the state of alignment that the verse connects with the raised one.
παρεδόθη
paredothē
GROWS FROM
παραδίδωμι
paradidōmi
To hand over, entrust, or deliver.
“delivered” in this verse is paredothē. The word carries the sense of being handed over, placing the one’s exposure to death in direct relation to our trespasses. Its wider word family also carries what is handed down from one person to another.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: To hand over, entrust, deliver
παραδίδωμι
This is the verb family of the verse’s “delivered,” making the act of handover visible beneath the English wording.
paradosis: A handing down, tradition
παράδοσις
This branch carries the same handover into what is passed from one person to another.
THE PATTERN
Scripture binds the bearing of wrongdoing to a restored standing that death cannot cancel.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.THE THREAD
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:Both verses draw on δικαιόω (dikaioō, to set right or align): Romans 4:25 binds alignment to the raising, and Romans 5:1 names the resulting relation as peace with God. The root carries restoration into a lived condition.
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