Colossians 3:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅπου οὐκ ἔνι Ἕλλην καὶ Ἰουδαῖος, περιτομὴ καὶ ἀκροβυστία, Βάρβαρος, Σκύθης, δοῦλος, ἐλεύθερος: ἀλλὰ τὰ πάντα καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν Χριστός.

Transliteration

Where not eni Hellēn and Ioudaios, peritomē and akrobystia, Barbaros, Skythēs, doulos, eleutheros: but the panta and in pasin Christos.

Grammar Details

• *Hopou*: relative adverb - where
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *eni*: contracted form of present active indicative, 3rd person singular - there is
• *Hellēn*: nominative, masculine, singular - Greek
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *Ioudaios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jew
• *peritomē*: nominative, feminine, singular - circumcision
• *akrobystia*: nominative, feminine, singular - uncircumcision
• *Barbaros*: nominative, masculine, singular - Barbarian
• *Skythēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - Scythian
• *doulos*: nominative, masculine, singular - slave
• *eleutheros*: nominative, masculine, singular - free person
• *alla*: contrastive conjunction - but
• *panta*: nominative, neuter, plural - all things
• *pasin*: dative, masculine, plural - in all
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ

Word Meanings

• *eni*: there is/exists
• *Hellēn*: Greek/Gentile/non-Jew
• *Ioudaios*: Jew/Jewish person
• *peritomē*: circumcision/circumcised people
• *akrobystia*: uncircumcision/uncircumcised people
• *Barbaros*: Barbarian/non-Greek speaker/foreigner
• *Skythēs*: Scythian/nomadic people considered uncivilized
• *doulos*: slave/servant/bondservant
• *eleutheros*: free person/freedman
• *panta*: all things/everything

Referenced Verses

• Rom 10:12 : 12 And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:
• 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
• Eph 1:23 : 23 Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.
• Gal 3:28-29 : 28 There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.
• 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
• Acts 28:2 : 2 And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.
• Eph 3:6 : 6 Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,
• Eph 6:8 : 8 In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.
• Phil 3:7-9 : 7 But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ. 8 Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, 9 And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• Col 2:10 : 10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:
• 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
• 2 John 1:9 : 9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
• Gal 6:14-15 : 14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it. 15 For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
• Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.
• Rom 1:14 : 14 I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.
• Rom 3:29 : 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:
• Rom 4:10-11 : 10 How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it: 11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
• Rom 8:10-11 : 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.
• Rom 9:24-26 : 24 Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved. 26 And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.
• Rom 9:30-31 : 30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: 31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.
• 1 Cor 7:21-22 : 21 If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it. 22 For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
• 1 Cor 14:11 : 11 But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
• Rom 15:9-9 : 9 And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name. 10 And again he says, Take part, you Gentiles, in the joy of his people. 11 And again, Give praise to the Lord, all you Gentiles; and let all the nations give praise to him. 12 And again Isaiah says, There will be the root of Jesse, and he who comes to be the ruler over the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles put their hope. 13 Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Cor 1:29-30 : 29 So that no flesh might have glory before God. 30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
• 1 Cor 3:21-23 : 21 So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours; 22 Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
• Ps 117:2 : 2 For great is his mercy to us, and his faith is unchanging for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
• Isa 19:23-25 : 23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth: 25 Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.
• Isa 49:6 : 6 It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
• Isa 52:10 : 10 The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
• Isa 66:18-22 : 18 And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory. 19 And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations. 20 And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says the Lord. 22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.
• Jer 16:19 : 19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
• Hos 2:23 : 23 And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
• Amos 9:12 : 12 So that the rest of Edom may be their heritage, and all the nations who have been named by my name, says the Lord, who is doing this.
• Mic 4:2 : 2 And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
• Zech 2:11 : 11 Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.
• Zech 8:20-23 : 20 This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come, 21 And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. 22 And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. 23 This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
• Mal 1:11 : 11 For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
• Matt 12:18-21 : 18 See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles. 19 His coming will not be with fighting or loud cries; and his voice will not be lifted up in the streets. 20 The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all. 21 And in his name will the Gentiles put their hope.
• John 6:56-57 : 56 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him. 57 As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
• John 15:5 : 5 I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
• Acts 10:34-35 : 34 Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
• Acts 13:46-48 : 46 Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles. 47 For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth. 48 And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.
• Acts 15:17 : 17 So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,
• Acts 26:17-18 : 17 And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.