What Does Romans 15:14 Mean?
And I myself am persuaded of you, brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able also to set minds in one another.
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 I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.THE KEY
Being filled is not self-containment; goodness and knowledge make you able to place what matters in one another’s minds.
THE MEANING
Goodness and understanding are already present in you, and they make you able to offer one another counsel. This verse describes a shared capacity: what you know can help someone else see clearly, just as their words can help you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that useful correction belongs only to a formal teacher: the verse describes this capacity as something people can offer one another.
THE ROOT
νουθετεῖν
noutheteín
GROWS FROM
νοῦς + τίθημι (noûs + títhēmi)
A Greek compound: νοῦς (noûs) means “mind,” and τίθημι (títhēmi) means “place” or “set.” The verb means to admonish, counsel, or put something before another’s mind.
“set minds in” in this verse is noutheteín. The Greek verb carries the image of placing counsel before another’s mind, giving “admonish” a sense wider than reprimand alone. The phrase “one another” makes that guidance mutual: each person can help another keep something important in view.
ALSO GROWS
noûs: mind, understanding
νοῦς
This is the mind component of the compound, showing that the act addresses another person’s understanding.
títhēmi: place, set
τίθημι
This is the placing component: counsel is set before another’s mind, making the verse’s shared guidance more concrete.
πεπληρωμένοι
peplērōménoi
GROWS FROM
πληρόω
plēróō
To fill, make full, or bring to completion.
“filled with all knowledge” in this verse is peplērōménoi. The verse links being filled with knowledge to being able to guide one another. Knowledge appears here as something that becomes useful in relationship, not merely something kept within oneself.
ALSO GROWS
plḗrōma: fullness
πλήρωμα
This noun names the state of fullness that echoes the verse’s picture of being filled.
plḗrēs: full, complete
πλήρης
This related form keeps completion in view: the verse describes a capacity that is already well supplied.
γνώσεως
gnṓseōs
GROWS FROM
γνῶ-
gnō-
Knowing or perceiving; the word family centers on knowing.
“filled with all knowledge” in this verse is gnṓseōs. The verse places knowledge alongside goodness and connects both with the ability to admonish. Knowing is presented as part of a shared life in which understanding can be offered to another.
ALSO GROWS
ginṓskō: know, perceive
γινώσκω
This related verb makes the knowing in the verse more than a label for stored information; it belongs to a word family of knowing and perception.
epígnōsis: knowledge, recognition
ἐπίγνωσις
This related noun shows another form of the same knowing family, reinforcing how understanding can become recognizable and shareable.
THE PATTERN
The fullness of goodness and knowledge is expressed through words that guide and strengthen one another.
The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, but the heart of fools does not do so.Let the word of the Anointed One settle in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, in plucked songs, in hymns, and in songs of breath, singing with favor in your hearts to God.Now we urge you, brothers. Admonish those who are out of line, comfort those faint in living soul, hold up the weak, and be slow to heat toward all.THE THREAD
Let the word of the Anointed One settle in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, in plucked songs, in hymns, and in songs of breath, singing with favor in your hearts to God.Colossians uses the same Greek verb, νουθετέω (nouthetéō), translated “admonishing.” It opens Romans’ “able also” further: fullness becomes visible as people share instruction with one another.
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