Colossians 3:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and above all these things [put on] love, which is the bond of perfectness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπὶ πᾶσιν δὲ τούτοις τὴν ἀγάπην, ἥτις ἐστιν σύνδεσμος τῆς τελειότητος.

Transliteration

Epi pasin de these the agapēn, which estin syndesmos of the teleiotētos.

Grammar Details

• *epi*: preposition with dative - upon/over/in addition to
• *pasin*: dative, neuter, plural - all things
• *de*: continuative/transitional particle - and/but/now
• *toutois*: dative, neuter, plural, demonstrative pronoun - these
• *agapēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - love
• *hētis*: relative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - which
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *syndesmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - bond/ligament
• *teleiotētos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of perfection/completeness

Word Meanings

• *agapēn*: love/charity/benevolence
• *syndesmos*: bond/binding/unifying force/ligament
• *teleiotētos*: perfection/completeness/maturity

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:3 : 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 {G1161} above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
• 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
• 1 John 4:21 : 21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
• John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
• Rom 13:8 : 8 Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
• 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
• Eph 1:4 : 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
• John 15:12 : 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; {G2532} that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
• Col 2:2 : 2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery None of God, [even] Christ,
• 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
• Heb 6:1 : 1 Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
• 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
• 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
• 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 Herein {G5129} was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 Herein {G5129} is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us: