What Does Luke 1:6 Mean?
And they were both aligned before God, walking in all the commandments and the acts of alignment of the LORD, blameless.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.THE KEY
“Righteous” and “ordinances” grow from the same Greek root, joining alignment before God to the path being walked.
THE MEANING
The verse gives you a picture of alignment before God as a lived path: the walk and the commandments belong together. “Blameless” names an integrity with no charge able to hold, a wholeness visible in the direction of a life now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that being aligned with God is only an inward label, separate from the shape of a person’s walk.
THE ROOT
δίκαιοι
dikaioi
GROWS FROM
δικ-
dik-
Rightness, justice, or what is fitting; here, alignment before God.
The word for “righteous” (δίκαιοι, dikaioi, aligned) and the word for “ordinances” (δικαιώμασιν, dikaiōmasin, ordinances) share the same δικ- (dik-) seed. Greek holds alignment and its ordered path in one word family, so the walk is alignment taking shape.
ALSO GROWS
dikaioō: justify, set right
δικαιόω
This branch shows the same root describing a person or matter being brought into right alignment.
dikaiosynē: righteousness, justice, alignment
δικαιοσύνη
It names the quality shared with “righteous,” making alignment the central idea of the family.
dikaiōma: ordinance, requirement, just act
δικαίωμα
Luke uses this root-family word for “ordinances,” linking alignment with the ordered path they walk.
THE PATTERN
Alignment before God takes shape as a whole walk whose actions correspond to what is received.
Flourishing are those whose way is whole, who walk in the instruction of the LORD.But be makers of the word, and not hearers only, miscounting yourselves.The one who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk, just as that one walked.THE THREAD
For in it the alignment of God is unveiled, from trust into trust, as it is written, "The aligned one shall live from trust."Romans uses the same δικ- (dik-) word family for “righteousness” and “just,” echoing Luke’s “righteous” and “ordinances.” It joins alignment with living by trust, opening the shared root into a whole way of life.
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