What Does Romans 15:13 Mean?
And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and wholeness in leaning your full weight, so that you may overflow in hope through the power of the Set-Apart Breath.
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Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.THE KEY
Hope is the overflow of God’s filling, joy and wholeness received in trust, carried by the power of the Set-Apart Breath.
THE MEANING
God is the source of hope, and God’s filling reaches you as joy and wholeness in the act of trusting. The Set-Apart Breath is the power by which that hope grows abundant in you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Hope is a feeling you must manufacture and protect by yourself. This verse presents it as an overflow of God’s filling, received in trust.
THE ROOT
ἐλπίς
elpis
GROWS FROM
ἐλπ-
elp-
hope, expectation
The verse names God as the source of hope, then describes hope as something that can abound in you. Its repetition links the source to the overflow: hope is received and grows beyond its starting measure.
ALSO GROWS
elpizō: hope, expect
ἐλπίζω
The verb form shows hope as an active orientation of expectation, not merely a passing feeling.
proelpizō: hope beforehand
προελπίζω
This compound carries the same hope-root toward what lies ahead, echoing the verse’s picture of hope becoming abundant.
πιστεύειν
pisteuein
GROWS FROM
πειθ-
peith-
persuade, convince; the root family extends to trust and confidence
“leaning your full weight” in this verse is pisteuein. The phrase places God’s filling “in the trusting,” making trust the setting in which joy and wholeness are received. The word family connects believing with being persuaded into confidence, rather than bare agreement.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: persuade, convince
πείθω
This related verb gives the trust-family a sense of confidence formed through persuasion.
pistis: trust, confidence
πίστις
This noun names the trust in which the verse says God’s joy and wholeness fill you.
πνεῦμα
pneuma
GROWS FROM
πνευ-
pneu-
breath, wind, moving air; also spirit
The power behind abundant hope is named with a word that holds breath, wind, and spirit together. In this phrase, the Set-Apart Breath is the living power through which hope grows.
ALSO GROWS
pneō: blow, breathe
πνέω
This verb shares the breath-and-wind word family, making the living movement within pneuma visible.
pnoē: breath, breeze
πνοή
This related noun shows the same family carrying the sense of breath that English can separate from “spirit.”
THE PATTERN
What God fills in a person through trust becomes an abundance of hope.
You make me perceive the path of life; before your face is the fullness of joy, and at your right hand are sweetnesses forever.And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Set-Apart Breath, which has been given to us.Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One, who according to his great faithful love has birthed us again into a living hope through the rising of Jesus the Anointed One from the dead,THE THREAD
And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Set-Apart Breath, which has been given to us.Romans 5:5 repeats ἐλπίς (elpis, hope) and πνεῦμα (pneuma, breath/spirit), showing the same hope connected to the same Set-Apart Breath. Its image of God’s love poured into the heart opens up how hope here abounds from an inward filling.
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