Colossians 1:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Περιπατῆσαι ὑμᾶς ἀξίως τοῦ Κυρίου εἰς πᾶσαν ἀρεσκείαν, ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ ἀγαθῷ καρποφοροῦντες, καὶ αὐξανόμενοι εἰς τὴν ἐπιγνώσιν τοῦ Θεοῦ·

Transliteration

To peripatēsai you axiōs of the Kyriou unto all areskeian, in every ergō agathō karpoforountes, and auxanomenoi unto the epignōsin of Theou;

Grammar Details

• *peripatēsai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to walk
• *axiōs*: adverb - worthily
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Lord, standard
• *areskeian*: accusative, feminine, singular - pleasing, goal
• *ergō*: dative, neuter, singular - work, sphere
• *agathō*: dative, neuter, singular - good, quality
• *karpoforountes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - bearing fruit
• *auxanomenoi*: present, passive/middle, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - growing/increasing
• *epignōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - full knowledge, goal
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God, possessive

Word Meanings

• *peripatēsai*: to walk/live/conduct oneself
• *axiōs*: worthily/suitably/in a manner worthy of
• *areskeian*: pleasing/satisfaction/what is pleasing
• *ergō*: work/deed/action
• *agathō*: good/beneficial/useful
• *karpoforountes*: bearing fruit/being productive
• *auxanomenoi*: growing/increasing/expanding
• *epignōsin*: full knowledge/recognition/acknowledgment

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:1 : 1 Live in Unity I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,
• 1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.
• Mic 4:5 : 5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods, we will follow the LORD our God forever.
• Rom 6:4 : 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.
• 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 Apostolic Ministry But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place.
• 2 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 May grace and peace be lavished on you as you grow in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord! 3 Believers’ Salvation and the Work of God I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.
• Heb 13:16 : 16 And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.
• Titus 3:14 : 14 Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.
• 2 Pet 1:8 : 8 For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.
• Col 2:6 : 6 Warnings Against the Adoption of False Philosophies Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
• Prov 16:7 : 7 When a person’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.
• Hab 2:14 : 14 For recognition of the LORD’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.
• John 15:8 : 8 My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.
• John 15:16 : 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
• Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
• Eph 5:10 : 10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
• Eph 5:15 : 15 Live Wisely Therefore consider carefully how you live– not as unwise but as wise,
• Phil 1:11 : 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that– whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent– I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,
• Phil 4:18 : 18 For I have received everything, and I have plenty. I have all I need because I received from Epaphroditus what you sent– a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, very pleasing to God.
• Eph 1:17 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
• Eph 4:13 : 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.
• John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
• Isa 53:11 : 11 Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done.“My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins.
• Dan 12:4 : 4 “But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”
• Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
• 2 Cor 9:8 : 8 And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.
• 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
• Heb 11:5 : 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.
• Titus 3:1 : 1 Conduct Toward Those Outside the Church Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
• 2 Tim 2:4 : 4 No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.
• Col 4:5 : 5 Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.
• Col 2:19 : 19 He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
• Rom 4:12 : 12 And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.