What Does Romans 7:25 Mean in the King James?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of 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
The name Jesus carries deliverance into a sentence that still admits the mind and flesh serve opposing laws.
THE MEANING
Your mind serves God’s instruction while your flesh serves the law of missing; both claims sit within one person. Thanks to God through Jesus is present alongside the conflict, not after it disappears.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that gratitude or deliverance requires the struggle to have already ended: the verse names thanksgiving and divided service together.
THE ROOT
δουλεύω
douleuō
GROWS FROM
δουλ
To serve as a slave, under a master’s claim.
The Greek family of “serve” also names the servant and the condition of slavery. The verse describes more than agreement with two rules: it reveals two competing claims on one person.
ALSO GROWS
doulos: servant, slave
δοῦλος
This same family names the person whose service is being claimed.
douleia: slavery, bondage
δουλεία
The related noun names the condition behind service, showing how each law operates as a master.
douloō: enslave, bring into bondage
δουλόω
This verb shows the binding force carried by the same family as “serve.”
ἁμαρτίας
hamartias
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ
To miss, err, or fail to reach the mark.
The word rendered “sin” belongs to the ἁμαρτ family of missing or erring. Here that missing is called a law: it acts as a governing pattern in the flesh, not merely as one isolated failure.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: to miss, err
ἁμαρτάνω
This verb expresses the action named by the noun in the verse.
hamartēma: a mistake, error, or misdeed
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun names an instance of missing or erring.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver, bring out of constriction into spaciousness.
“Jesus” in this verse is Yeshua. Yeshua belongs to the same family as “deliver” and “deliverance”; the name carries its action. The verse places this nature at the center of thanksgiving while openly naming the divided service still present.
ALSO GROWS
yashaʿ: to deliver, bring out
יָשַׁע
This verb carries the action within the name Yeshua.
yeshuah: deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the movement the name holds: being brought out.
moshiaʿ: deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form names the one who brings another out.
THE PATTERN
Service shows what rules a person: scripture frames divided allegiance as a contest between masters.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?THE THREAD
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.Both verses use the Greek family δουλεύω (douleuō, “serve as a slave”). Matthew names the impossibility of serving two masters; Romans locates the conflict in the mind and flesh of one person.
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