Colossians 2:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἅ ἐστιν πάντα εἰς φθορὰν τῇ ἀποχρήσει·) κατὰ τὰ ἐντάλματα καὶ διδασκαλίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων;

Transliteration

Which estin all to phthoran in the apochrēsei;) according to the entalmata and didaskalias of anthrōpōn?

Grammar Details

• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *phthoran*: accusative, feminine, singular - destruction/corruption/perishing
• *apochrēsei*: dative, feminine, singular - using up/consumption
• *entalmata*: accusative, neuter, plural - commandments/precepts
• *didaskalias*: accusative, feminine, plural - teachings/doctrines
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - men/human beings

Word Meanings

• *phthoran*: destruction/corruption/perishing
• *apochrēsei*: using up/consumption/using
• *entalmata*: commandments/precepts/orders
• *didaskalias*: teachings/doctrines/instructions
• *anthrōpōn*: men/human beings/people

Referenced Verses

• Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught [them];
• Titus 1:14 : 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
• Mark 7:7-9 : 7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men. 8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. 9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: 11 but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God]; 12 ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother; 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
• Matt 15:3-9 : 3 And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God]; 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition. 7 Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
• Mark 7:18-19 : 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] {G1410} cannot defile him; 19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.
• John 6:27 : 27 Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
• Isa 29:18 : 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
• Dan 11:37 : 37 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.
• Rev 17:18 : 18 And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.