What Does Revelation 14:5 Mean?
And no lie is found in their mouth, for they are without blemish before the throne of God.
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 in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.THE KEY
The verse joins a mouth free of falsehood to a person without blemish, making speech and standing one reality before God.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks of a life in which no falsehood is found in the mouth and no blemish stands before God. Your speech and your presence belong to one whole reality; the mouth does not hide a second self.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that truthful speech and integrity before God are separate matters.
THE ROOT
ψεῦδος
pseudos
GROWS FROM
ψευδ-
pseud-
Falsehood, a lie; the family also names the act of speaking falsely.
“lie” in this verse is pseudos. The word translated “guile” names falsehood itself, not just a polished or misleading way of speaking. The verse says no falsehood is found in their mouth, then joins that speech to their unblemished standing before God.
ALSO GROWS
pseudomai: To lie or speak falsely
ψεύδομαι
This verb shows the root reaching from falsehood as a thing to the act of voicing it.
pseudēs: False or lying
ψευδής
This form can describe someone or something as false, echoing the verse’s link between the mouth and the whole person.
ἄμωμοι
amōmoi
GROWS FROM
μωμ- (mōm-), with privative ἀ-
Blemish or fault; with the privative prefix, unblemished or without fault.
“without blemish” in this verse is amōmoi. “Without fault” carries the texture of something with no blemish, not only a verdict cleared of blame. Beside the word for falsehood, it presents an undivided life: what is spoken and what stands before God are both unmarked by deceit.
ALSO GROWS
mōmos: Blemish, fault, or blame
μῶμος
This is the fault that the privative prefix removes in ἄμωμοι.
amōmētos: Blameless, without blame
ἀμώμητος
This related form is used for being found without blame, extending the root’s sense of an unblemished standing.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness appears when what the mouth speaks and what the person is before God agree.
Flourishing is a person to whom the LORD does not count crookedness, and in whose breath there is no deceit.The remnant of Israel shall do no crookedness and speak no lies; no deceitful tongue shall be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them tremble.Who never missed the mark, nor was bait found in his mouth;THE THREAD
No common thing enters it, nor whoever makes foulness or a lie, except those written in the Lamb's scroll of life.“Guile” here and “a lie” there translate the same Greek word, ψεῦδος (pseudos), falsehood. What is absent from their mouths is also absent from the life of the holy city: speech and belonging share one root.
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