Stand Having Your Loins Girt About With Truth

When we take on the whole armour of God, so that we can withstand in the evil day, we are to stand having our loins girt about with truth.

"Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth…" - Ephesians 6:14a KJV

From Thayer’s Greek Lexicon:

“With truth as a girdle, figuratively equivalent to to equip oneself with knowledge of the truth.”

Thayer’s Greek Lexicon defines “loins” as, “the (two) loins, where the Hebrews thought the generative power (semen) resided… hence, καρπός τῆς ὀσφύος, fruit of the loins, offspring, Acts 2:30…”

"Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;" - Acts 2:30 KJV

It is in the area of the loins that a girdle was worn. Hence, to “gird about the loins,” and to “gird up the loins.”

“to gird, gird up, gird about” is a metaphor for “to be prepared.”

"Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;" - Luke 12:35 KJV

"Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;" - 1 Peter 1:13 KJV

“— a metaphor derived from the practice of the Orientals, who in order to be unimpeded in their movements were accustomed, when about to start on a journey or engage in any work, to bind their long and flowing garments closely around their bodies and fasten them with a leathern girdle;” Thayer’s

Our loins are to be “girt about with truth.”

One of the definitions of “truth” according to Thayer’s is:

“The truth which is the gospel or which the gospel presents, Galatians 2:5, 14.”

"To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you." - Galatians 2:5 KJV

In conclusion, it appears that to have our loins girt about with truth concerns the new birth of the gospel. (John 3:5, Acts 2:38).

"Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." - James 1:18 KJV

[“Word” in James 1:18 according to Thayer’s Greek Lexicon: equivalent to κήρυγμα, preaching, with the genitive of the object: λόγος ἀληθείας, 2 Corinthians 6:7; James 1:18; ὁ λόγος τῆς ἀληθείας, Colossians 1:5; Ephesians 1:13; 2 Timothy 2:15;].

If we are going to have part in the spiritual birth of souls, we must be prepared for ourselves and for others with the truth of the gospel.

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." - 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV [See: Galatians 1:6-7]