Colossians 3:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ λόγος τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐνοικείτω ἐν ὑμῖν πλουσίως ἐν πάσῃ σοφίᾳ· διδάσκοντες καὶ νουθετοῦντες ἑαυτοὺς ψαλμοῖς καὶ ὕμνοις καὶ ᾠδαῖς πνευματικαῖς, ἐν χάριτι ᾄδοντες ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν τῷ Κυρίῳ.

Transliteration

The logos of the Christou enoikeitō in you plousiōs in all sophia; didaskontes and nouthetountes heautous with psalmois and hymnois and ōdais pneumatikais, in chariti adontes in the kardia of you to the Kyriō.

Grammar Details

• *logos*: nominative, masculine, singular - word
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ
• *enoikeitō*: present active imperative, 3rd person singular - let dwell/indwell
• *hymin*: dative, 2nd person plural pronoun - in you
• *plousiōs*: adverb - richly/abundantly
• *pasē*: dative, feminine, singular - all/every
• *sophia*: dative, feminine, singular - wisdom
• *didaskontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - teaching
• *nouthetountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - admonishing
• *heautous*: accusative, masculine, plural, reflexive pronoun - yourselves/one another
• *psalmois*: dative, masculine, plural - psalms
• *hymnois*: dative, masculine, plural - hymns
• *ōdais*: dative, feminine, plural - songs/odes
• *pneumatikais*: dative, feminine, plural - spiritual
• *chariti*: dative, feminine, singular - grace/gratitude
• *adontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - singing
• *kardia*: dative, feminine, singular - heart
• *hymōn*: genitive, 2nd person plural pronoun - of you/your
• *Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - to the Lord

Word Meanings

• *logos*: word/message/teaching
• *enoikeitō*: let dwell/inhabit/live in
• *plousiōs*: richly/abundantly/fully
• *sophia*: wisdom/skill/insight
• *didaskontes*: teaching/instructing/educating
• *nouthetountes*: admonishing/warning/instructing
• *psalmois*: psalms/songs from scripture
• *hymnois*: hymns/songs of praise
• *ōdais pneumatikais*: spiritual songs/divinely inspired songs
• *chariti*: grace/gratitude/thankfulness
• *adontes*: singing/chanting/making melody

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
• John 15:7 : 7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
• Eph 5:19 : 19 Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
• Eph 1:17 : 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• 1 John 2:24 : 24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
• 2 John 1:2 : 2 Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:
• Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Rom 10:17 : 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• Job 23:12 : 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
• Deut 6:6-9 : 6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. 8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; 9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
• Eph 5:17 : 17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.
• Col 1:9 : 9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
• 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Neh 12:46 : 46 For in the days of David and Asaph in the past, there was a master of the music, and songs of blessing and praise to God.
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
• Jas 3:17 : 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.
• Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.
• Isa 30:29 : 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.
• Jer 15:16 : 16 But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
• 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
• Ps 32:7 : 7 You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)
• Ps 119:54 : 54 Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
• Prov 2:6-7 : 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason: 7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
• Prov 14:8 : 8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
• Ps 28:7 : 7 The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.
• Ps 30:11-12 : 11 By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy; 12 So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.
• 1 Chr 25:7 : 7 And the number of them, with their brothers who were trained and expert in making melody to the Lord, was two hundred and eighty-eight.
• Deut 11:18-20 : 18 So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow; 19 Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up: 20 Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:
• 1 Kgs 3:9-9 : 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people? 10 Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord. 11 And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes; 12 I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
• Matt 26:30 : 30 And after a song of praise to God, they went out to the Mountain of Olives.
• Isa 5:1 : 1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
• John 5:39-40 : 39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me. 40 And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
• Col 4:6 : 6 Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
• Jas 5:13 : 13 Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.
• 1 Pet 1:11-12 : 11 Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them. 12 And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
• 1 Thess 5:11-12 : 11 So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing. 12 But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;
• Titus 3:6 : 6 Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• 2 Thess 3:15 : 15 Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.
• Rev 19:10 : 10 And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
• 1 Thess 4:18 : 18 So then, give comfort to one another with these words.
• Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;
• Ps 71:23 : 23 Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.
• Ps 103:1-2 : 1 <Of David.> Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name. 2 Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory.
• Ps 138:1 : 1 <Of David.> I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.
• Prov 18:1 : 1 He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
• Song 1:1 : 1 The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
• Ps 47:6-7 : 6 Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise. 7 For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.
• Isa 10:2 : 2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
• Isa 26:1 : 1 In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and towers.
• Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.
• 1 Cor 14:15 : 15 What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.
• 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.
• Heb 12:12-15 : 12 For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong, 13 And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong. 14 Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord; 15 Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
• Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
• Rev 14:3 : 3 And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.
• Rev 15:3 : 3 And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.
• 1 John 2:14 : 14 I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.