What Does Romans 5:1 Mean in the King James?
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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
Alignment with God is received through trust, and its fruit is wholeness with God.
THE MEANING
Trust is the way alignment with God takes shape in you now. Through Yeshua, the deliverance, the anointed one, you have wholeness with God rather than opposition.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
You do not have to make yourself perfect before you can be at peace with God; this verse presents alignment as received through trust.
THE ROOT
δικαιωθέντες
dikaiōthentes
GROWS FROM
δικαι-
dikai-
The Greek word family of being right or setting right.
The verse’s word for being justified belongs to the same family as the word translated righteousness. The shared root lets you hear alignment inside both: this is being set right with God, not merely receiving a detached label.
ALSO GROWS
dikaios: Just, right
δίκαιος
This related word shows the quality of being aligned that justification brings into view.
dikaiosynē: Righteousness, alignment
δικαιοσύνη
This is the same word family expressed as a state or quality, making the link between being justified and alignment visible.
πίστει
pistei
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
The Greek word family associated with persuading and trusting.
“faith” in this verse is pistei. This word names trust: leaning your full weight on what you rely upon, not holding a belief at a distance. Here trust is the means through which alignment is received.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: Persuade, trust
πείθω
This related verb connects persuasion with the trust named in the verse.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable
πιστός
This branch shows the dependable quality that makes trust possible.
εἰρήνην
eirēnēn
GROWS FROM
εἰρην-
eirēn-
Peace; the Greek word family of peace and peacemaking.
The verse’s peace is wholeness with God, not merely a quiet feeling. The same word family appears in words for making peace, so this wholeness reaches into the relationship itself.
ALSO GROWS
eirēnopoios: Peacemaker
εἰρηνοποιός
This branch shows peace as something that can be made between parties.
eirēneuō: Be at peace, live in peace
εἰρηνεύω
This verb carries peace as a lived condition, illuminating the wholeness the verse says you have with God.
THE PATTERN
Trust receives alignment, and alignment opens into wholeness.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;THE THREAD
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.The same Greek word families for justified and faith appear here, making their connection explicit. Alignment comes through trust in Jesus Christ, rather than through a performance that earns standing.
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