What Does Romans 1:15 Mean?
So, as much as is in me, I am eager to bring the good news to you also who are in Rome.
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
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.THE KEY
In Greek, “preach the gospel” is one verb: to good-news someone, message and movement are a single act.
THE MEANING
Readiness turns outward: what is within you takes form as good news carried to others, even in a distant or unfamiliar place. Rome too is included in that reach.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The good news is not confined to familiar places or people already near you; Rome too is within its reach.
THE ROOT
εὐαγγελίσασθαι
euangelisasthai
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελ-
euangel- word family
To announce or carry good news; the Greek verb belongs to the same word family as “gospel.”
“bring the good news” in this verse is euangelisasthai. English separates “preach” from “gospel,” but the Greek uses one verb from the same family as the noun for good news. The act is itself a carrying of good news, so the message and its movement stay joined.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: good news, gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
This is the noun from the same word family: the good news Paul is ready to carry is present inside the verb for announcing it.
angelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
The shared angel- word element links the good-news family with a messenger, revealing the message as something carried outward.
angelia: message, announcement
ἀγγελία
This related word makes the announcement itself visible within the word family: the news moves by being spoken and carried.
πρόθυμον
prothymon
GROWS FROM
προθυμ-
prothym- word family
Eagerness or readiness arising from an inner willingness.
“eager” in this verse is prothymon. The Greek word conveys an inward eagerness, not just being available or prepared. That readiness is “in me,” and it turns toward the outward act of announcing good news.
ALSO GROWS
prothymia: willingness, eagerness
προθυμία
This noun names the inward readiness that becomes action in the verse.
prothymos: willing, eager, ready
πρόθυμος
The same word family presents readiness as an inner orientation, not merely a state of being equipped.
THE PATTERN
Good news moves outward through people who carry its announcement into places and lives.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one who brings good news, who makes wholeness heard, who brings good news of good, who makes deliverance heard, who says to Zion, Your God governs.And he said to them, Go into all the world and herald the good news to all creation.THE THREAD
And how will they herald unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!The Greek verb translated “preach the gospel” in both verses comes from the same εὐαγγελ- word family. Romans 10:15 shows the good news moving through sending and feet; here, readiness is already turned toward carrying it to Rome.
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