What Does Romans 8:14 Mean in the King James?
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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
God’s breath makes sonship visible as a life being led.
THE MEANING
When God’s breath leads you, you are not moving outside your belonging: sonship and that living direction belong together. The verse names you as God’s child within the movement of being led.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that being God’s child is only a status detached from God’s present leading.
THE ROOT
πνεύματι
pneumati
GROWS FROM
πνέω
pneō
To breathe or blow.
The word here, pneuma, names breath and wind as well as Spirit. God’s leading is carried in the same word that names life’s moving breath: direction comes through living movement.
ALSO GROWS
pnoē: Breath, blast, or blowing.
πνοή
This related word keeps the physical sense of moving air close to pneuma, revealing breath and Spirit as connected meanings.
pneumatikos: Pertaining to the Spirit or breath; spiritual.
πνευματικός
This related form carries the same breath-word into descriptions of what belongs to the Spirit.
ἄγονται
agontai
GROWS FROM
ἄγω
agō
To lead, bring, or conduct.
“are led” in this verse is agontai. The verb is a present passive form: they are being led. Its root describes movement toward a direction, so the verse presents sonship as belonging revealed within an ongoing movement.
ALSO GROWS
agōgē: Conduct or course of life.
ἀγωγή
This branch names the shape of a life’s movement, echoing the verse’s picture of a person being led.
prosagōgē: Access or approach.
προσαγωγή
This branch uses the same root for movement toward access, adding the sense of being brought near.
THE PATTERN
God’s breath reveals belonging by moving a life along the direction of God’s will.
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.THE THREAD
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.John uses the same Greek word, pneuma, first for wind and then for Spirit. That shared word reveals the leading here as the movement of living breath.
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