Colossians 3:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐνδύσασθε οὖν, ὡς ἐκλεκτοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἅγιοι καὶ ἠγαπημένοι, σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμῶν, χρηστότητα, ταπεινοφροσύνην, πρᾳότητα, μακροθυμίαν·

Transliteration

Endysasthe oun, as eklektoi of the Theou, hagioi and having been ēgapēmenoi, splanchna of oiktirmōn, chrēstotēta, tapeinophrosynēn, praotēta, makrothymian;

Grammar Details

• *endysasthe*: aorist middle imperative, 2nd person plural - put on/clothe yourselves with
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *hōs*: comparative particle - as/like
• *eklektoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - chosen/elect ones
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *hagioi*: nominative, masculine, plural - holy ones/saints
• *ēgapēmenoi*: perfect passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been loved
• *splanchna*: accusative, neuter, plural - inward affections/bowels/heart
• *oiktirmōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of compassions/mercies
• *chrēstotēta*: accusative, feminine, singular - kindness
• *tapeinophrosynēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - humility
• *praotēta*: accusative, feminine, singular - gentleness/meekness
• *makrothymian*: accusative, feminine, singular - patience/longsuffering

Word Meanings

• *endysasthe*: put on/clothe yourselves with/wear
• *eklektoi*: chosen/elect/selected ones
• *hagioi*: holy ones/saints/set apart ones
• *ēgapēmenoi*: having been loved/beloved
• *splanchna oiktirmōn*: heart of compassion/tender mercies/compassionate heart
• *chrēstotēta*: kindness/goodness/benevolence
• *tapeinophrosynēn*: humility/lowliness of mind/modesty
• *praotēta*: gentleness/meekness/mildness
• *makrothymian*: patience/longsuffering/forbearance

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:32 : 32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.
• Eph 4:2 : 2 With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;
• 2 Pet 1:5-8 : 5 So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue, 6 And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind, 7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself. 8 For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
• Col 3:10 : 10 And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;
• 1 Thess 1:3-6 : 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; 4 Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose; 5 Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you. 6 And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, 23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
• 1 John 3:14-20 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death. 15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. 16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers. 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him? 18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith. 19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him, 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
• 1 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride: 9 Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing. 10 For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit: 11 And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.
• Eph 4:24 : 24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: 14 And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,
• Titus 3:4-6 : 4 But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit, 6 Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
• Isa 63:15 : 15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:
• Isa 65:9 : 9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.
• Isa 65:22 : 22 They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
• Jer 31:3 : 3 From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.
• Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
• Ezek 16:8 : 8 Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
• Matt 24:22 : 22 And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
• Matt 24:31 : 31 And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
• Mark 13:20 : 20 And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.
• Mark 13:22 : 22 Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.
• Mark 13:27 : 27 And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven.
• Luke 1:78 : 78 Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
• Rom 1:7 : 7 To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 8:29-33 : 29 Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers: 30 And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory. 31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things? 33 Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;
• Rom 9:11 : 11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
• Rom 11:5-7 : 5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace. 6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace. 7 What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
• Rom 12:9-9 : 9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good. 10 Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
• 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,
• 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.
• Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.
• Phil 2:1-4 : 1 If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity, 2 Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind; 3 Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself; 4 Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.
• Eph 1:4 : 4 Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
• Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
• Isa 42:1 : 1 See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
• Isa 45:4 : 4 Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.
• 2 John 1:13 : 13 The children of your noble sister, who is of God's selection, send you their love.
• Rev 17:14 : 14 These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.