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Logos and rhema word study

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Home Word Study — λόγος ( logos ) and ῥῆμα ( rhēma ), and how they relate λόγος ( logos ) — “word, reason, account, discourse.” Root sense: the underlying content or substance of what is communicated — a word as meaning, as reasoned structure, as the whole of what is said or meant. John opens his Gospel with this term at full weight: “In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Here λόγος names the eternal, personal reality of Christ himself, before any particular utterance, before creation (1:3). Elsewhere in the NT it is used more ordinarily for teaching or message as a whole — “the word of God” as the body of gospel content (Acts 6:7, “the word of God increased”); “the word of the cross”; “the word of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:19). Broad. Substantial. The full weight of what is taught or true. ῥῆμα ( rhēma ) — “an utterance, a saying, a specific spoken word.” Root sense: a particular thing actually said, spoken, or delivered in a moment — narrower...
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The key of John

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Home Reading Key — The Organic / Abiding Frame (John) John’s writing — the Gospel and his three letters — runs on a different architecture from Paul’s courtroom. Paul asks what your legal standing is, and on what basis. John asks whether you are alive, connected, and remaining in the source of life. The governing images are biological and relational: birth, light, food, water, vine — not verdicts and classes. Core organic images Born / begotten (γεννάω). John 1:12–13: those who receive him are born of God, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man. 1 John uses “born of God” again and again (2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1, 4, 18). What Paul would name as adoption, John names as birth. Birth is not a verdict read over you. It is a new source of life. Life (ζωή) and light (φῶς). John 1:4 pairs them from the first lines: “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.” Both run the book: “I am the light of the world” (8:12); “I am the resurrection and the l...
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Jude chapter 1

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Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Greeting 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ, and called: 2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Contend for the faith 3 Beloved, when I was giving all diligence to write to you about the common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who were long ago marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into sensuality, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their first estate, but left their own dwelling, he has kept in ev...
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Ephesians chapter 6

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Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Household 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” 4 And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. 5 Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ, 6 not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive from the Lord, whether slave or free. 9 And masters, do the same things toward them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. The whole armor o...
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Ephesians chapter 5

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Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Walk in love, as children of light 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints, 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 —for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodnes...
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Ephesians chapter 4

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Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Walk worthy of the calling 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Therefore he says: “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” 9 Now this, “he ascended”—what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. 11...
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Ephesians chapter 2

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Text size: A− Reset A+ Previous · Home · Next Dead, and made alive with Christ 1 And you, being dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the jurisdiction of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest— 4 but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you are saved— 6 and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is ...
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