What Does Romans 6:1 Mean in the King James?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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 question turns favor’s abundance from a loophole into a mirror: it meets the missing without naming it the way.
THE MEANING
The question exposes a false equation: if favor grows where we miss the mark, then missing the mark must be worth continuing. But favor meets failure without making it the reader’s destination. The verse puts the reader’s present pattern under a question, not a permission.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that God’s favor makes continued missing harmless, or useful because it gives favor more room to show.
THE ROOT
ἁμαρτίᾳ
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ-
hamart-
To miss or go wrong.
English “sin” can sound like a fixed category; this Greek word family carries the sense of missing or going wrong. “Continue in sin” therefore describes staying with the miss, not merely wearing an abstract label.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: The related verb for missing or doing wrong.
ἁμαρτάνω
It shows the same idea as an action: the miss is something a person does, not an identity that must remain fixed.
hamartēma: A deed or result of going wrong.
ἁμάρτημα
This branch makes the connection between the act of missing and what that act produces.
hamartōlos: A person described by this word family.
ἁμαρτωλός
The family can name both the miss and the person associated with it, while the question focuses on whether the miss is continued.
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαριτ-
charit-
Favor, freely granted.
The word translated “grace” belongs to a family of favoring and freely granting. The question holds abundance together with that favor: failure can be met by generosity, but generosity does not make persistence the point.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: To give or grant as an act of favor.
χαρίζομαι
It shows favor as an active giving, not an approval of whatever is being continued.
charitoō: To bestow favor upon someone.
χαριτόω
It keeps the root’s emphasis on favor directed toward a person.
THE PATTERN
Favor meets wrongdoing by opening a way out of its rule, not by making it the reader’s home.
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;THE THREAD
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:Romans 5:20 uses the same Greek words for “sin” (ἁμαρτία, hamartia, missing) and “grace” (χάρις, charis, favor). Romans 6:1 picks up that abundance and asks what it means when the reader considers continuing in the very thing favor meets.
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