Philippians 1:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πεποιθὼς αὐτὸ τοῦτο, ὅτι ὁ ἐναρξάμενος ἐν ὑμῖν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἐπιτελέσει ἄχρι ἡμέρας Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ:

Transliteration

Pepoithōs same this, that the enarxamenos in you ergon agathon will epitelesei until hēmeras Iēsou Christou:

Grammar Details

• *Pepoithōs*: perfect active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having been convinced/confident
• *enarxamenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having begun/initiated
• *ergon*: accusative, neuter, singular - work/deed
• *agathon*: accusative, neuter, singular - good
• *epitelesei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will complete/perfect
• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - day
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus Christ

Word Meanings

• *Pepoithōs*: being confident/being persuaded/trusting
• *enarxamenos*: one having begun/one who initiated/starter
• *ergon agathon*: good work/good deed
• *epitelesei*: will complete/will perfect/will bring to completion
• *hēmeras Iēsou Christou*: day of Jesus Christ/Christ's day

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 5:23-24 : 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. 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it.
• Phil 2:13 : 13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Eph 4:12 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
• Heb 13:20-21 : 20 Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus, 21 make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Rom 8:28-30 : 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: 30 and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• 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.
• Ps 138:8 : 8 Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; Forsake not the works of thine own hands.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, {G2424} after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself {G5209} perfect, establish, strengthen you.
• Phil 1:10 : 10 so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;
• John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
• 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;
• Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.
• Heb 12:2 : 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Eph 2:4-9 : 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly [places], in Christ Jesus: 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: 8 for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; 9 not of works, that no man should glory. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
• Titus 3:4-6 : 4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God {G138} chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 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,
• 2 Thess 3:4 : 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command.
• Phil 1:29 : 29 because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:
• Col 2:12 : 12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein {G1722} ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
• Phlm 1:21 : 21 Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.