What Does Romans 8:25 Mean in the King James?
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
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 Greek word for “wait” carries the root of receiving, so unseen hope is readiness to welcome what has not yet appeared.
THE MEANING
What you cannot yet see remains the object of your hope; its absence from sight does not erase its place in your life. Patience is the steady remaining that lets expectation endure without turning into sight. The waiting itself is active expectancy, open to receive what has not appeared.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that what cannot be seen yet is nothing to hope for.
THE ROOT
ἀπεκδεχόμεθα
apekdechometha
GROWS FROM
δέχομαι
dechomai
Receive, accept, welcome.
“wait” in this verse is apekdechometha. The verb for waiting belongs to the Greek receiving family, so its expectancy is not empty suspension: it faces what it can welcome when it arrives. The verse holds together what sight cannot yet show and a posture ready to receive it.
ALSO GROWS
dechomai: Receive, welcome.
δέχομαι
This root gives the waiting its receptive edge: the unseen is anticipated as something that can be welcomed.
ekdechomai: Await, expect.
ἐκδέχομαι
This related form makes the connection between receiving and awaiting visible in the verse’s expectant waiting.
ὑπομονή
hypomonē
GROWS FROM
μέν- (men-, from μένω, menō)
Remain, stay, continue.
Patience carries the sense of remaining under what presses on you. Its root family also names abiding and enduring, so the verse’s waiting is sustained presence, not a blank pause.
ALSO GROWS
menō: Remain, stay, abide.
μένω
The root’s basic sense is continuing to remain, which gives patience its steadiness.
hypomenō: Endure, remain under.
ὑπομένω
This related verb names remaining through pressure, illuminating patience as continuity through the wait.
THE PATTERN
Unseen hope takes shape as patient expectancy rather than proof of sight.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.THE THREAD
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.The same Greek verb for expectant waiting appears in both verses. Here, your unseen hope belongs to a creation-wide expectancy: creation itself waits for what has not yet appeared.
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