What Does Romans 6:14 Mean in the King James?
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
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 verse does not erase the reality of missing; it removes its right to be your lord.
THE MEANING
Missing no longer holds lordship over you. You stand under favor rather than under the law; the verse names a change in what governs your life. Missing can be present without being your master.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that every failure proves you are still owned by it.
THE ROOT
κυριεύσει
kyrieusei
GROWS FROM
κυρι- (kyri-), from κύριος (kyrios)
Lord, master; to exercise lordship
The verb translated “dominion” is built on the word for lord: it pictures missing as claiming mastery. The verse denies that claim, so a failure does not get to rule you.
ALSO GROWS
kyrios: lord, master
κύριος
The verb for having dominion grows from the word for lord, revealing the authority missing is denied.
kyriotēs: lordship, dominion
κυριότης
This related noun makes the question concrete: whose lordship holds authority over you?
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ- (hamart-), from ἁμαρτάνω (hamartanō)
to miss, to fail to reach
The Greek word belongs to the family of missing or failing to reach. This gives “sin” the texture of something that can happen without making it your identity or your ruler.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: to miss, to err
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb shares the same stem, linking “sin” with the act of missing that the verse says will not master you.
hamartōlos: sinner, one who misses
ἁμαρτωλός
The related word can name a person through this same family of missing; Romans 6:14 breaks the idea that missing must define who rules that person.
χάρις
charis
GROWS FROM
χαρ-
char-
favor, gracious regard
“grace” in this verse is charis. Charis names favor freely extended. By placing you under favor, the verse names a new ground of authority beneath your life, where missing no longer holds lordship.
ALSO GROWS
charizomai: to show favor, freely grant, forgive
χαρίζομαι
The related verb carries favor into action, connecting the favor beneath you with what is freely granted and released.
charisma: a gift, something freely granted
χάρισμα
This branch shows favor taking form as a gift, rather than a standing you earn by never missing.
THE PATTERN
The power that seeks mastery over a person can be displaced by a different governing authority.
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.THE THREAD
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.The same Greek word, ἁμαρτία (hamartia, missing), appears here and in verse 14. Verse 12 names the body as the place where missing might reign; verse 14 says it will not hold that rule over you.
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