What Does Romans 4:8 Mean in the King James?
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
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
Flourishing appears where the Lord does not charge what was missed to your account.
THE MEANING
You are flourishing where the Lord does not count your missing against you. What you have missed does not become the measure of your standing before God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that every failure remains permanently charged against you before God.
THE ROOT
λογίσηται
logisētai
GROWS FROM
λογ-
log-
To reckon, calculate, or take into account.
The verb belongs to the language of reckoning: the Lord does not post the missing to the person’s account. Its word family joins counting and reasoning, opening the ledger image inside “impute.”
ALSO GROWS
logos: Word, account, or reason.
λόγος
Its shared word family connects reckoning with what is stated or considered.
logismos: Calculation, reasoning, or thought.
λογισμός
This branch makes the act of reckoning visible as a count or judgment being formed.
ἁμαρτίαν
hamartian
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ-
hamart-
To miss or fail.
“sin” in this verse is hamartian. The word names what is missed, while the verb beside it names what happens to that missing: it is not reckoned to the person. The sentence holds both the failure and its uncharged status together.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: To miss, fail, or do wrong.
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb shows the action or condition named by the noun in the verse.
hamartēma: A failure, offense, or wrong.
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun presents a particular instance of missing or failure.
μακάριος
makarios
GROWS FROM
μακαρ-
makar-
Flourishing or in a good state.
“Blessed” in this verse is makarios. The verse names the man as flourishing before it describes the uncharged account. Flourishing is presented as the state that accompanies the Lord’s refusal to reckon the missing against him.
ALSO GROWS
makarizō: To call someone flourishing or blessed.
μακαρίζω
This verb turns the state named by μακάριος into a spoken recognition.
makarismos: A pronouncement of blessedness or flourishing.
μακαρισμός
This noun names the declaration of the flourishing state the verse describes.
THE PATTERN
God’s reckoning can count trust as alignment while leaving missing uncharged against the person.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.THE THREAD
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.Romans 4:8 quotes this line, and the Greek psalm uses the same logizomai verb translated here as “impute.” The fuller line places the uncharged account beside a spirit without deceit, joining what is reckoned with what is brought into the open.
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