Philippians 1:10

American Standard Version (1901)

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰς τὸ δοκιμάζειν ὑμᾶς τὰ διαφέροντα· ἵνα ἦτε εἰλικρινεῖς καὶ ἀπρόσκοποι εἰς ἡμέραν Χριστοῦ·

Transliteration

For the dokimazein you the diapheronta; that you may be eilikrineis and aproskopoi unto hēmeran Christou;

Grammar Details

• *dokimazein*: present active infinitive - to approve/test/discern
• *diapheronta*: present active participle, accusative, neuter, plural - things that differ/excel
• *ēte*: present subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you may be
• *eilikrineis*: nominative, masculine, plural - pure/sincere
• *aproskopoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - without offense/blameless
• *hēmeran*: accusative, feminine, singular - day
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ

Word Meanings

• *dokimazein*: to test/to approve/to discern/to distinguish
• *diapheronta*: things that differ/things that excel/things of value/what matters
• *eilikrineis*: pure/sincere/unmixed/genuine
• *aproskopoi*: without offense/blameless/not causing others to stumble

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
• Rom 2:18 : 18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
• Phil 1:6 : 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Eph 5:10 : 10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
• 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 prove all things; hold fast that which is good;
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
• Acts 24:16 : 16 Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
• Rev 2:2 : 2 I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;
• Heb 5:12-14 : 12 For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. 14 But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
• Eph 5:27 : 27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ with [a love] incorruptible.
• Phil 1:16 : 16 the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;
• 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
• 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
• 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
• Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.
• Eph 4:15 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
• Rom 7:16 : 16 But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
• Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
• Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
• Gen 20:5 : 5 Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.
• Josh 24:14 : 14 Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.
• Job 12:11 : 11 Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?
• Job 34:3 : 3 For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
• Isa 7:15-16 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.
• Amos 5:14-15 : 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
• Mic 3:2 : 2 ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and [that] he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!
• Matt 26:33 : 33 But Peter answered and said unto him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
• John 3:20 : 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.