What Does Romans 5:11 Mean in the King James?
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
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 reconciliation behind your joy is received through Jesus, so joy begins in a restored relationship with God.
THE MEANING
Through Jesus Christ, you now receive reconciliation with God, and joy rises in God himself. The verse speaks of a restored relationship that is already received in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that you must repair yourself before God can receive you is undone: this verse describes reconciliation as something received through Jesus.
THE ROOT
καταλλαγήν
katallagēn
GROWS FROM
καταλλάσσω
katallassō
To reconcile; to restore a relationship from enmity to accord.
“atonement” in this verse is katallagēn. The word carries the sense of reconciliation: a relationship changed from hostility to restored connection. Here, that reconciliation is something you have received, and it is the ground of your joy in God.
ALSO GROWS
katēllaxen: reconciled
κατήλλαξεν
This verb form names reconciliation as an action; Romans 5:10 uses the same verb family for being reconciled to God.
katallagē: reconciliation
καταλλαγή
This noun names the restored relationship itself, which this verse says you now receive.
καυχώμεθα
kauchōmetha
GROWS FROM
καυχάομαι
kauchaomai
To boast, exult, or take pride in.
The verb translated “joy” can also carry the sense of openly exulting or boasting in someone. God himself is the object of that exultation, so the reconciliation received through Jesus gives joy a relationship to rest in.
ALSO GROWS
kauchēma: a ground for boasting
καύχημα
This related noun points to what a person can boast in; here, joy rests in God.
kauchēsis: boasting, exultation
καύχησις
This related noun echoes the verse’s outward, expressed delight rather than a merely private feeling.
THE PATTERN
When hostility is removed and relationship is restored, joy turns toward God.
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:THE THREAD
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.The same Greek word family appears here as “reconciled” and “reconciliation”: verse 10 names the restored relationship, and verse 11 names the joy that follows receiving it. The connection places that restoration in the face of enmity, not after the enmity has already vanished.
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