Colossians 3:12

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Now therfore as electe of god holy and beloved put on tender mercie kyndnes humblenes of myndes meknes longe sufferynge

📖 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 Be ye courteouse one to another and mercifull forgevynge one another eve as god for Christes sake forgave you.
• Eph 4:2 : 2 in all humblenes of mynde and meknes and longe sufferynge forbearinge one another thorowe love
• 2 Pet 1:5-8 : 5 And hervnto geve all diligence: in youre fayth minister vertve and in vertue knowledg 6 and in knowledge temperancy and in temrancy pacience in pacience godlynes 7 in godlynes brotherly kyndnes in brotherly kyndnes love. 8 For yf these thinges be amonge you and are plenteous they wyll make you that ye nether shalbe ydle nor vnfrutefull in the knowledge of oure LORde Iesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love him for he loved vs fyrst.
• Col 3:10 : 10 and the new put on which is renued in knowledge after the ymage of him that made him
• 1 Thess 1:3-6 : 3 with out ceasynge and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faythe and labour in love and perseveraunce in the hope of oure LORde Iesus Christ in the sight of God oure father: 4 because we knowe brethren beloved of god how yt ye are electe. 5 For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only but also in power and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure selves amonge you for youre sakes. 6 And ye became folowers of vs and of the lord and receaved the worde in moche affliccion with ioye of the holy gost:
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But ye frute of sprete is loue ioye peace longesufferinge getlenes goodnes faythfulnes 23 meknes temperancye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe.
• 1 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 In coclusion be ye all of one mynde one suffre with another love as brethren be petifull be courteous 9 not redringe evyll for evyll nether rebuke for rebuke: but contrary wyse blesse remembringe yt ye are thervnto called even yt ye shuld be heyres of blessinge. 10 If eny ma longe after life and loveth to se good dayes let him refrayne his tonge fro evyll and his lippes that they speake not gyle. 11 Let him eschue evyll and do good: let him seke peace and ensue it.
• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherfore brethren geve the moare diligence forto make youre callynge and eleccion sure. For yf ye do soche thynges ye shall never erre.
• 1 John 3:14-20 : 14 We knowe that we are translated from deeth vnto lyfe be cause we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abydeth in deeth. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a man slear. And ye knowe that no man slear hath eternall lyfe abydinge in him. 16 Herby perceave we love: that he gave his lyfe for vs: and therfore ought we also to geve oure lyves for the brethre. 17 Whosoever hath this worldes good and seith his brother have neade: and shutteth vp his copassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My babes let vs not love in worde nether in tonge: but with dede and in veritie: 19 for therby we knowe that we are of the veritie and can before him quiet oure hertes. 20 But yf oure hertes condempne vs God is gretter then oure hertes and knoweth all thinges.
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we are bounde to geve thankes alwaye to god for you brethren beloved of the LORde for because that God hath from the begynnynge chosen you to saluacion thorow sanctifyinge of the sprete and thorowe belevynge the trueth: 14 whervnto he called you byoure gospell to obtayne ye glorye that cometh of oure lord Iesu Christ.
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Herefore I suffre all thinges for ye electes sakes that they myght also obtayne that saluacion which is in Christ Iesu with eternall glory.
• Titus 1:1 : 1 ¶ Paul the seruaunt of God and an Apostle of Iesu Christ to preache the fayth of goddis electe and ye knowledge of that trueth which is after godlynes
• Titus 3:4-6 : 4 But after that the kyndnes and love of oure saveoure God to mawarde appered 5 not of ye dedes of rightewesnes which we wrought but of his mercie he saved vs by ye foutayne of the newe birth and with the renuynge of the holy goos 6 which he shed on vs aboundantly thorow Iesus Christ oure saveoure
• Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is fyrst pure then peasable gentle and easy to be entreated full of mercy and good frutes without iudgynge and without simulacio: 18 yee and the frute of rightewesnes is sowen in peace of them that mayntene peace.
• Eph 4:24 : 24 and put on that newe man which after the ymage of God is shapen in ryghtewesnes and true holynes.
• Eph 1:4 : 4 accordynge as he had chosen vs in him before ye foudacio of ye worlde was layde that we shuld be saintes and without blame before him thorow loue.
• Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God which is rich in mercy thorow his greate love wherwith he loved vs 5 even when we were deed by synne hath quickened vs together in Christ (for by grace are ye saved)
• Phil 1:8 : 8 For God beareth me recorde how greatly I longe after you all from the very herte rote in Iesus Christ.
• Phil 2:1-4 : 1 If ther be amoge you eny consolacion in Christ yf ther be eny cofortable love yf there be eny fellishippe of the sprete yf ther be eny copassion or mercy: 2 fulfyll my ioye that ye drawe one waye havinge one love beynge of one accorde and of one mynde 3 that nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe 4 and that no man consyder his awne but what is mete for other.
• Matt 24:22 : 22 Ye and except those dayes shuld be shortened there shuld no fleshe be saved: but for ye chosens sake those dayes shalbe shortened.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall arise false christes and false prophete and shall do great myracles and wondres. In so moche yt if it were possible ye verie electe shuld be deceaved.
• Matt 24:31 : 31 And he shall sende his angeles with the greate voyce of a trope and they shall gader to gether his chosen from the fower wyndes and from the one ende of the worlde to the other.
• Mark 13:20 : 20 And excepte yt the Lorde shuld shorten those dayes no ma shuld be saved. But for the electes sake which he hath chosen he hath shortened those dayes.
• Mark 13:22 : 22 For falce Christes shall aryse and falce Prophetes and shall shewe myracles and wondres to deceave yf it were possible evyn the electe.
• Mark 13:27 : 27 And then shall he sende his angels and shall gaddre to gedder his electe from the fower wyndes and from the one ende of the worlde to the other.
• Luke 1:78 : 78 Through the tender mercy of oure God wherby the daye springe from an hye hath visited vs.
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not god avenge his electe which crye daye and nyght vnto him ye though he differre them?
• Rom 1:7 : 7 To all you of Rome beloved of God and saynctes by callinge. Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
• Rom 8:29-33 : 29 For those which he knewe before he also ordeyned before yt they shuld be lyke fassioned vnto the shape of his sonne that he myght be ye fyrst begotten sonne amoge many brethren. 30 Morover which he apoynted before them he also called. And which he called them also he iustified which he iustified them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then saye vnto these thinges? yf god be on oure syde: who can be agaynst vs? 32 which spared not his awne sonne but gave him for vs all: how shall he not wt him geve vs all thinges also? 33 Who shall laye eny thinge to ye charge of goddes chosen? it is god that iustifieth:
• Rom 9:11 : 11 yeer the chyldren were borne when they had nether done good nether bad: that the purpose of God which is by election myght stonde
• Rom 11:5-7 : 5 Even so at this tyme ys ther a remnanaunt lefte thorow the eleccion of grace. 6 Yf it be of grace the is it not of workes. For then were grace no moare grace. Yf it be of workes then is it no moare grace. For then were deservyng no lenger deservynge. 7 What then? Israel hath not obtayned that that he sought. No but yet the election hath obtayned it. The remnaunt are blynded
• Rom 12:9-9 : 9 Let love be wt out dissimulacion. Hate that which is evyll and cleave vnto that which is good. 10 Be kynde one to another with brotherly love. In gevynge honoure goo one before another.
• 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 in purenes in knowledge in longe sufferynge in kyndnes in the holy goost in love vnfayned
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Iesu Christ nether is circumcision enythinge worth nether yet vncircocision but faith which by love is mighty in operacion.
• 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 Se that none recopence evill for evyll vnto eny man: but ever folowe that which is good both amonge youre selves and to all men.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 by ye forknowledge of God ye father thorow the sanctifyinge of the sprete vnto obedience and springklinge of the bloud of Iesus Christ. Grace be with you and peace be multiplyed.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 which saved vs and called vs wt an holy callinge not acordinge to oure dedes but accordynge to his awne purpose and grace which grace was geve vs thorowe Christ Iesu before the worlde was
• 2 John 1:13 : 13 The sonnes of thy electe syster grete the. Amen.
• Rev 17:14 : 14 These shall fyght with the lambe and the lambe shall overcome them: For he is LORde of LORdes and kynge of kynges: and they that are on hys syde are called and chosen and faythfull.