Colossians 1:6

American Standard Version (1901)

which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῦ παρόντος εἰς ὑμᾶς, καθὼς καὶ ἐν παντὶ τῷ κόσμῳ· καὶ ἐστὶν καρποφορούμενον, καθὼς καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀφʼ ἧς ἡμέρας ἠκούσατε, καὶ ἐπέγνωτε τὴν χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ:

Transliteration

The parontos to you, kathōs also in all the kosmō; and it estin karpoforoumenon, kathōs also in you, from which hēmeras you ēkousate, and epegnōte the charin of Theou in alētheia:

Grammar Details

• *parontos*: present, active, participle, genitive, neuter, singular - being present/having come
• *kathōs*: comparative adverb - just as/even as
• *kosmō*: dative, masculine, singular - world, location
• *estin*: 3rd person singular, present, active, indicative - is
• *karpoforoumenon*: present, middle, participle, nominative, neuter, singular - bearing fruit
• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - day, possessive/temporal
• *ēkousate*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you heard
• *epegnōte*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you knew fully/recognized
• *charin*: accusative, feminine, singular - grace, direct object
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God, possessive
• *alētheia*: dative, feminine, singular - in truth, manner

Word Meanings

• *parontos*: present/having come/arrived
• *kathōs*: just as/even as/according as
• *kosmō*: world/universe/ordered system
• *karpoforoumenon*: bearing fruit/producing results
• *epegnōte*: knew fully/recognized/acknowledged
• *charin*: grace/favor/goodwill
• *alētheia*: truth/reality/genuineness

Referenced Verses

• John 15:16 : 16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
• Col 1:23 : 23 if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.
• Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account [him], I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand ye fast therein.
• Ps 98:3 : 3 He hath remembered his lovingkindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• Matt 24:14 : 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
• Mark 4:8 : 8 And others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and brought forth, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.
• Rom 1:13 : 13 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.
• Rom 10:17-18 : 17 So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. 18 But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.
• Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
• Rom 15:28 : 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.
• Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
• 1 Cor 15:10-11 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
• 2 Cor 10:14 : 14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:
• Eph 3:2 : 2 if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;
• Eph 4:21 : 21 if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
• Eph 4:23 : 23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
• Eph 5:9 : 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
• Mark 4:26-29 : 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. 28 The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because the harvest is come.
• Mark 16:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
• John 4:23 : 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.
• Matt 28:19 : 19 Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
• Ps 110:3 : 3 Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the dew of thy youth.
• Phil 4:17 : 17 Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.
• Col 1:10 : 10 to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• Titus 2:11-12 : 11 For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;
• 1 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Acts 11:18 : 18 And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life.
• Acts 12:24 : 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.