What Does Romans 15:5 Mean?
And may the God of endurance and of comfort give you to set the same mind toward one another, according to Jesus, the Anointed One.
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
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:THE KEY
The shared mind is granted from the God whose endurance holds people steady and whose comfort turns them toward one another.
THE MEANING
The God who gives endurance and comfort is active in your relationships now. A shared way of thinking toward one another is something God grants. Its shape comes according to Christ Jesus: Christos (Χριστός, Christos) means “the Anointed One,” and Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ, Yeshua) carries the sense of “deliverance.”
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A shared mind is not something you must manufacture by willpower alone; the verse says God grants it.
THE ROOT
φρονεῖν
phronein
GROWS FROM
φρήν (phrēn), in the word family of φρονέω (phroneō)
Mind, thought, or understanding; φρονέω means to think or direct the mind.
“set the same mind” in this verse is phronein. The phrase means “to think the same thing” toward one another, giving likemindedness the sense of a shared mental direction. The verse presents that orientation as something God grants, shaped according to Jesus the Anointed One.
ALSO GROWS
phroneō: think, set the mind
φρονέω
This verb makes likemindedness an orientation of thought toward one another.
phronēma: mindset, intention
φρόνημα
This related word shows the family can describe an inward disposition, not just a passing thought.
ὑπομονή
hypomonē
GROWS FROM
μένω (menō), within ὑπομένω (hypomenō)
To remain or continue; with ὑπο- (“under”), to remain under pressure.
Patience here carries the picture of staying present under strain, not simply waiting without feeling. That endurance gives a shared life room to hold together.
ALSO GROWS
menō: remain, abide
μένω
The basic idea of remaining gives patience a steadiness that can persist through difficulty.
hypomenō: endure, remain under
ὑπομένω
This related verb makes explicit the endurance contained in the verse’s “patience.”
παράκλησις
paraklēsis
GROWS FROM
καλέω (kaleō), in παρακαλέω (parakaleō)
To call or summon; the related verb παρακαλέω means to comfort or urge.
Consolation carries active encouragement: comfort that steadies and urges a person onward. Paired with endurance, it shows the support named here as part of the ground for a shared mind.
ALSO GROWS
parakaleō: comfort, urge
παρακαλέω
The related verb presents comfort as active support that can move a person forward.
paraklēsis: comfort, encouragement, appeal
παράκλησις
This noun is repeated in the preceding verse, linking shared-mindedness with received comfort.
THE PATTERN
God-given unity takes shape through endurance, mutual care, and a common mind turned toward one another.
A Song of degrees of David. Look, how good and how sweet it is for brothers to settle also together!Fill my joy, that you think the same thing, having the same love, of one living soul, thinking the one thing.pressing to keep the oneness of the breath in the binding of wholeness.THE THREAD
For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the comfort of the writings we might hold hope.Verse 4 uses the same Greek words, ὑπομονή (hypomonē, endurance) and παράκλησις (paraklēsis, comfort), that name God in verse 5. The endurance and comfort received through Scripture become the ground from which shared-mindedness is granted.
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