What Does Romans 4:25 Mean?
Who was handed over for our stumbles, and raised for our alignment.
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
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.THE KEY
The same “for” binds both movements: he is handed over in relation to our trespasses and raised in relation to our alignment.
THE MEANING
Your trespasses and your alignment are held together in one movement: the one handed over for them is raised for your alignment. The verse locates that alignment in the risen one, not in your effort to repair yourself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that your trespasses leave you permanently outside alignment dissolves here: they are named alongside the handing-over, while his raising is bound to your alignment.
THE ROOT
δικαίωσιν
dikaiōsin
GROWS FROM
δικαιόω
dikaioō
To justify, vindicate, or set right; the word family carries the sense of alignment.
English “justification” can sound like a verdict alone, while this word family also speaks of being set right. The verse binds that alignment to the raising of the one handed over for our trespasses.
ALSO GROWS
dikaios: Just, right, aligned
δίκαιος
This branch shows the right-standing carried by the same word family as “justification.”
dikaiosynē: Righteousness, justice, alignment
δικαιοσύνη
This branch names the state of alignment that the verse connects with the raised one.
παρεδόθη
paredothē
GROWS FROM
παραδίδωμι
paradidōmi
To hand over, entrust, or deliver.
The word carries the sense of being handed over, placing the one’s exposure to death in direct relation to our trespasses. Its wider word family also carries what is handed down from one person to another.
ALSO GROWS
paradidōmi: To hand over, entrust, deliver
παραδίδωμι
This is the verb family of the verse’s “delivered,” making the act of handover visible beneath the English wording.
paradosis: A handing down, tradition
παράδοσις
This branch carries the same handover into what is passed from one person to another.
THE PATTERN
Scripture binds the bearing of wrongdoing to a restored standing that death cannot cancel.
He shall see the toil of his living soul, and be filled. By his knowing, my servant, the one in alignment, shall align many, and he shall carry their crookedness.God raised him up, having loosed the labor pangs of death, for it was not possible for him to be held by it.Who is the one who condemns? It is the Anointed One who died, but more than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also approaches on our behalf.THE THREAD
Therefore, aligned through trust, we have wholeness with God through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.Both verses draw on δικαιόω (dikaioō, to set right or align): Romans 4:25 binds alignment to the raising, and Romans 5:1 names the resulting relation as peace with God. The root carries restoration into a lived condition.
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