What Does Romans 15:6 Mean?
So that with one passion and one mouth you may give weight to the God and Father of our Lord 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
That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.THE KEY
The unity here is a shared passion that makes many voices one, giving God the weight of their common praise.
THE MEANING
You join one passion and one mouth, giving weight to God as the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. The verse presents unity as an inner movement made audible in shared praise.
THE ROOT
ὁμοθυμαδόν
homothumadon
GROWS FROM
θυμ
The Greek stem θυμ (thym) carries the sense of passion, heat, or inward impulse.
“with one passion” in this verse is homothumadon. The word translated one mind is built around the language of passion or heat. It points to people moved by a common inward impulse, which the verse makes audible as one mouth.
ALSO GROWS
thymos: passion, heat, or anger
θυμός
This shares the θυμ stem and shows the force of feeling carried within the word translated one mind.
homothymos: of one mind or shared passion
ὁμόθυμος
This related form joins sameness with passion, echoing the verse’s picture of many voices moved together.
δοξάζητε
doxazēte
GROWS FROM
δόξ
The Greek stem δόξ (dox) carries the sense of esteem, reputation, and honor; in this verse, glory also bears the sense of weight.
“give weight to” in this verse is doxazēte. The verb δοξάζητε belongs to the family of esteem and honor. The sense of weight adds a tactile dimension beneath glorify: the shared voice recognizes what is weighty in God.
ALSO GROWS
doxa: esteem, reputation, honor, or glory; weight
δόξα
The related noun names the honor and weight the verse’s shared praise gives to God.
doxazō: to honor or glorify
δοξάζω
This is the verb behind the verse’s glorify, linking the many voices to a shared act of honoring God.
THE PATTERN
When many people share one inward passion, their voices can give public weight to the same object of praise.
O grow the LORD great with me, and let us lift up his name together.And when they heard this, they lifted up their voice to God with one passion and said, "Master, you are God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them."And every tongue should say the same aloud, that Jesus the Anointed One is Lord, to the weight of God the Father.THE THREAD
And when they heard this, they lifted up their voice to God with one passion and said, "Master, you are God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them."The phrase rendered with one mind in Romans and with one accord in Acts translates the same Greek word, ὁμοθυμαδόν (homothumadon), with the sense of one passion. Acts makes the shared movement audible as one voice lifted to God.
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