Colossians 1:23

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

yf ye continue grounded and stablysshed in the fayth and be not moved awaye from the hope of the gospell wher of ye have herde howe that it is preached amonge all creatures which are vnder heven wher of I Paul am made a minister.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἴ γε ἐπιμένετε τῇ πίστει τεθεμελιωμένοι καὶ ἑδραῖοι, καὶ μὴ μετακινούμενοι ἀπὸ τῆς ἐλπίδος τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, οὗ ἠκούσατε, τοῦ κηρυχθέντος ἐν πάσῃ τῇ κτίσει τῇ ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν· οὗ ἐγενόμην ἐγὼ Παῦλος διάκονος·

Transliteration

If indeed you epimenete in the pistei having been tethemeliōmenoi and hedraioi, and not being metakinoumenoi from the elpidos of the euangeliou, which you ēkousate, the having been kērychthentos in all the ktisei the under the ouranon; of which egenomēn I Paulos diakonos;

Grammar Details

• *epimenete*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you continue
• *pistei*: dative, feminine, singular - faith, sphere
• *tethemeliōmenoi*: perfect, passive, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been founded
• *hedraioi*: nominative, masculine, plural - steadfast
• *metakinoumenoi*: present, passive, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - being moved away
• *elpidos*: genitive, feminine, singular - of hope, source
• *euangeliou*: genitive, neuter, singular - of gospel, possessive
• *ēkousate*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you heard
• *kērychthentos*: aorist, passive, participle, genitive, neuter, singular - having been proclaimed
• *ktisei*: dative, feminine, singular - creation, sphere
• *ouranon*: accusative, masculine, singular - heaven, location
• *egenomēn*: aorist, middle, indicative, 1st person singular - I became
• *Paulos*: nominative, masculine, singular - proper name
• *diakonos*: nominative, masculine, singular - servant

Word Meanings

• *epimenete*: continue/remain/persist
• *pistei*: faith/trust/belief
• *tethemeliōmenoi*: having been founded/established/grounded
• *hedraioi*: steadfast/firm/stable
• *metakinoumenoi*: being moved away/shifted/removed
• *elpidos*: hope/expectation
• *euangeliou*: gospel/good news
• *kērychthentos*: having been proclaimed/preached/announced
• *ktisei*: creation/creature/what is created
• *ouranon*: heaven/sky
• *egenomēn*: became/was made/came to be
• *diakonos*: servant/minister/deacon

Referenced Verses

• Heb 3:14 : 14 We are partetakers of Christ yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the fyrst substanc
• Col 1:5-6 : 5 for the hopes sake which is layde vp in store for you in heven of which hope ye have herde before by ye true worde of the gospe 6 which is come vnto you eve as it is in to all ye worlde and is frutefull as it is amoge you fro the fyrst daye in ye which ye herde of it and had experiece in ye grace of God in the trueth
• Matt 24:13-14 : 13 But he that endureth to the ende the same shalbe safe. 14 And this gladtidingees of the kyngdome shalbe preached in all the worlde for a witnes vnto all nacions: and then shall the ende come.
• Rom 10:18 : 18 But I axe: have they not herde? No dout their sounde went out into all londes: and their wordes in to the endes of the worlde.
• Acts 2:5 : 5 And ther were dwellinge at Ierusalem Iewes devoute men which were of all nacions vnder heaven.
• Heb 10:38 : 38 But the iust shall live by faith. And yf he withdrawe him silfe my soule shall have no pleasure in him.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a sonne hath rule over the housse whose housse are we so that we hold fast the confydence and the reioysynge of that hope vnto the ende.
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Feare none of thoo thynges which thou shalt soffre. Beholde the devyll shall caste of you into preson to tempte you and ye shall have tribulacion.x. dayes. Be faythfull vnto the deeth and I will geve the a croune of lyfe.
• 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 For this cause when I coulde no lenger forbeare I sent that I myght have knowledge of youre fayth lest haply the tempter had tempted you and that oure laboure had bene bestowed in vayne.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 yt Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by fayth yt ye beynge roted and grounded in loue
• Gal 6:9 : 9 Let vs not be wery of well doynge. For when the tyme is come we shall repe with out werines.
• Acts 14:22 : 22 and strengthed the disciples soules exhortinge them to continue in the faith affyrminge yt we must thorowe moche tribulacion entre into the kyngdome of God.
• Mark 16:15 : 15 And he sayd vnto them: Goo ye in to all the worlde and preache the glad tyges to all creatures
• Luke 8:13-15 : 13 They on the stonnes are they which when they heare receave the worde with ioye. But these have noo rootes which for a whyle beleve and in tyme of temtacio goo awaye. 14 And yt which fell amonge thornes are they which heare and goo forth and are choked wt cares and wt riches and volupteous lyvinge and bringe forth noo frute. 15 That in ye good grounde are they which with a good and pure hert heare the worde and kepe it and bringe forth frute with pacience.
• Luke 22:32 : 32 bnt I have prayed for the that thy faith fayle not. And when thou arte converted strengthe thy brethre.
• John 8:30-32 : 30 As he spake these wordes many beleved on him. 31 Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleved on him. If ye cotinue in my wordes then are ye my very disciples 32 and shall knowe the trueth: and the trueth shall make you free.
• John 15:6 : 6 Yf a man byde not in me he ys cast forthe as a braunche and is wyddered: and men gadder it and cast it into the fyre and it burneth.
• John 15:9-9 : 9 As the father hath loved me eve so have I leved you. Continue in my love. 10 Yf ye shall kepe my comaudemetes ye shall byde in my love eve as I have kept my fathers comaundementes and byde in his love.
• 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 which hath made vs able to minister the newe testamet not of the letter but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth but the sprete geveth lyfe.
• Col 1:25 : 25 wher of I am made a minister acordynge to the ordinaunce of god which ordinaunce was geven me vnto you warde to fulfill ye worde of god
• Col 2:7 : 7 roted and bylt in him and stedfaste in the fayth as ye have learned: and therin be plenteous in gevynge thankes.
• 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 which are kept by the power of God thorow fayth vnto salvacion which salvacion is prepared all redy to be shewed in the last tym
• 1 John 3:1-3 : 1 Beholde what love the father hath shewed on vs that we shuld be called the sonnes of god. For this cause the worlde knoweth you not because it knoweth not him. 2 Derely beloved now are we ye sonnes of God and yet it dothe not appere what we shal be. But we knowe that when it shall appere we shal be lyke him. For we shall se him as he is. 3 And every man that hath thys hope in him pourgeth him silfe even as he ys pure.
• 2 Pet 2:18-22 : 18 For when they have spoke the swellinge wordes of vanytie they begyle wt wantanes thorowe yt lustes of the flesshe them that were clene escaped: but now are wrapped in errours. 19 They promys them libertye and are them selves ye bonde servauntes of corrupcion. For of whom soever a man is over come vnto ye same is he in bondage. 20 For yf they after they have escaped from the filthynes of the worlde thorowe ye knowledge of ye Lorde and of ye saviour Iesus Christ they are yet tagled agayne therin and overcome: then is ye latter ende worsse with them then the beginninge. 21 For it had bene better for the not to have knowne ye waye of righteousnes then after they have knowe it to turne fro the holy comaundmet geve vnto them. 22 It is happened vnto them accordinge to the true proverbe: The dogge is turned to his vomet agayne and the sow that was wesshed to her wallowynge in the myre.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 And ye anoyntynge which ye have receaved of him dwelleth in you. And ye nede not that eny man teache you: but as ye annoyntynge teaheth you all thynges and is true and is no lye: and as it taught you even so byde therin.
• 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be God ye father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ which thorow is aboundant mercie begat vs agayne vnto a lively hope by the resurreccion of Iesus Christ fro deeth
• Heb 4:14 : 14 Seynge then that we have a great hye prest whych is entred into heven (I meane Iesus the sonne of God) let vs holde oure profession.
• Heb 6:19 : 19 which hope we have as an ancre of the soule both sure and stedfast. Which hope also entreth in into tho thynges which are with in the vayl
• 2 Tim 4:5-6 : 5 But watch thou in all thynges and suffre adversitie and do the worke of an evangelist fulfill thyne office vnto the vtmost. 6 For I am now redy to be offered and the tyme of my departynge is at honde.
• Titus 3:7 : 7 that we once iustified by his grace shuld be heyres of eternall lyfe thorowe hope
• 1 Thess 3:3 : 3 yt no ma shulde be moved in these affliccios. For ye youre selves knowe that we are even apoynted therevnto.
• 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let vs which are of the daye be sober armed with the brest plate of fayth and love and with hope of salvacio as an helmet.
• 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Oure LORde Iesu Christ hym silfe and God oure father which hath loved vs and hath geven vs everlastynge consolacion and good hope thorowe grace
• 1 Tim 1:12 : 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus oure Lorde which hath made me stronge: for he counted me true and put me in office
• 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 wherevnto I am ordayned a preacher and an apostle: I tell the trueth in Christ and lye not beynge the teacher of the gentyls in fayth and veritie.
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therfore seinge that we have soche an office eve as mercy is come on vs we faynte not:
• 2 Cor 5:18-20 : 18 Neverthelesse all thinges are of god which hath reconciled vs vnto him sylfe by Iesus Christ and hath geven vnto vs the office to preach the atonement. 19 For god was in Christ and made agrement bitwene the worlde and hym sylfe and imputed not their synnes vnto them: and hath comitted to vs the preachynge of ye atonmet. 20 Now then are we messengers in the roume of Christ: even as though God did beseche you thorow vs: So praye we you in Christes stede that ye be atone with God:
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We as helpers therfore exhorte you yt ye receave not the grace of god in (vayne)
• 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 They are ye ministers of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am moare: In labours moare aboundat: In strypes above measure: In preson more plenteously: In deeth ofte.
• Gal 4:11 : 11 I am in feare of you lest I have bestowed on you laboure in vayne.
• Gal 5:5 : 5 We loke for and hope in the sprite to be iustified thorow fayth.
• Gal 5:7 : 7 Ye did runne well: who was a let vnto you that ye shuld not obey the trueth?
• Eph 1:18 : 18 and lighten the eyes of youre myndes yt ye myght knowe what that hope is where vnto he hath called you and what the riches of his glorious inheritaunce is apon the sainctes
• Eph 2:21 : 21 in whom every bildynge coupled togedder groweth vnto an holy temple in ye LORde
• Eph 3:7-8 : 7 whereof I am made a minister by the gyfte of the grace of god geve vnto me thorow ye workynge of his power. 8 Vnto me the lest of all sayntes is this grace geven that I shuld preache amonge the gentyls the unsearchable ryches of Christ
• Eph 4:16 : 16 in whom all the body ys coupled and knet togedder in every ioynt wherwith one ministreth to another (accordinge to the operacion as every parte hath his measure) and increaseth the body vnto the edyfyinge of it silfe in love.
• Acts 4:12 : 12 Nether is ther salvacio in eny other. Nor yet also is ther eny other name geven to men wherin we must be saved.
• Acts 11:23 : 23 Which when he was come and had sene the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of hert they wolde continually cleave vnto ye Lorde.
• Acts 1:17 : 17 For he was noubred with vs and had obtayned fellouship in this ministracion.
• Acts 1:25 : 25 that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion and apostleshippe from the which Iudas by transgression fell that he myght go to his awne place.
• Luke 6:48 : 48 He is like a man which bilt an housse: and digged depe and layde the foundacio on a rocke. Whe the waters arose the fludde bet apo that housse and coulde not move yt. For it was grounded apon a rocke.
• Deut 2:25 : 25 This daye I will begynne to send the feare and dreade of the vppon all nacions that are vnder al portes of heauen: so that whe they heare speake of the, they shall tremble and quake for feare of the.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 Ye and leste thou lyfte vpp thyne eyes vnto heuen, and when thou seyst the sonne and the mone and the starres and what soeuer is contayned in heauen, shuldest be disceaued and shuldest bow thi selfe vnto them ad serue the thinges which the Lorde thy God hath distributed vnto all nacions that are vnder al quarters of heauen.
• Matt 7:24-25 : 24 Whosoever heareth of me these sayinges and doethe the same I wyll lyken hym vnto a wyse man which bylt hys housse on a rocke: 25 and aboundance of rayne descended and the fluddes came and the wyndes blewe and bet vpon that same housse and it fell not because it was grounded on the rocke.
• Acts 20:24 : 24 But none of tho thinges move me: nether is my lyfe dere vnto my selfe that I myght fulfill my course wt ioye and the ministracio which I have receaved of ye Lorde Iesu to testify the gospell of ye grace of god.
• Acts 26:16 : 16 But ryse and stond vp on thy fete. For I have apered vnto the for this purpose to make the a minister and a witnes both of tho thinges which thou hast sene and of tho thinges in the which I will appere vnto the
• Rom 2:7 : 7 that is to saye prayse honoure and immortalite to them which cotinue in good doynge and seke eternall lyfe.
• Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope maketh not ashamed for the love of God is sheed abrod in oure hertes by the holy goost which is geven vnto vs.
• Rom 15:16 : 16 that I shuld be the minister of Iesu Christ amonge the gentyls and shuld minister the gladde tydynges of God that the gentyls myght be an acceptable offerynge sanctyfied by the holy goost.
• 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What is Paul? What thinge is Apollo? Only miministers are they by who ye beleved even as the Lorde gave every ma grace.
• 1 Cor 4:1-3 : 1 Let men this wyse esteme vs eve as the ministers of Christ and disposers of ye secretes of God. 2 Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull. 3 With me is it but a very smal thinge that I shuld be iudged of you ether of (mans daye) No I iudge not myn awne selfe.
• 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therfore my deare brethren be ye stedfast and unmovable alwayes ryche in the workes of the Lorde for as moch as ye knowe how yt youre labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.
• 2 Tim 1:11-12 : 11 whervnto I am apoynted a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher of the gentyls: 12 for the which cause I also suffre these thinges. Neverthelesse I am not a shamed For I knowe who I have beleved and am sure that he is able to kepe that which I have comitted to his kepynge agaynst that daye.