Colossians 3:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰδότες ὅτι ἀπὸ Κυρίου ἀπολήψεσθε τὴν ἀνταπόδοσιν τῆς κληρονομίας: τῷ γὰρ Κυρίῳ Χριστῷ δουλεύετε.

Transliteration

Eidotes that from Kyriou you will apolēpsesthe the antapodosin of the klēronomias: for the Kyriō Christō you douleuete.

Grammar Details

• *eidotes*: perfect active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - knowing
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - from the Lord
• *apolēpsesthe*: future middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you will receive
• *antapodosin*: accusative, feminine, singular - reward/recompense
• *klēronomias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of the inheritance
• *gar*: explanatory particle - for
• *Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - to the Lord
• *Christō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Christ
• *douleuete*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you serve

Word Meanings

• *eidotes*: knowing/understanding/being aware
• *apolēpsesthe*: will receive/obtain/get back
• *antapodosin*: reward/recompense/repayment
• *klēronomias*: inheritance/possession/property
• *douleuete*: serve/are slaves to/render service to

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
• Eph 6:8 : 8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
• Acts 20:32 : 32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
• Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
• Rom 2:6-7 : 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
• Rom 14:18 : 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
• 1 Cor 3:8 : 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
• 1 Cor 9:17-18 : 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
• Gal 1:10 : 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
• Eph 6:6 : 6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• Gen 15:1 : 1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
• Ruth 2:12 : 12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
• Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
• Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
• Matt 5:46 : 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
• Matt 6:1-2 : 1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
• Matt 6:5 : 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
• Matt 6:16 : 16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
• Matt 10:41 : 41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
• Luke 6:35 : 35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
• Luke 14:14 : 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
• John 12:26 : 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
• Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• Heb 9:15 : 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
• Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• Heb 11:6 : 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
• 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: