Colossians 1:24

World English Bible (2000)

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅς νῦν χαίρω ἐν τοῖς παθήμασιν μου ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, καὶ ἀνταναπληρῶ τὰ ὑστερήματα τῶν θλίψεων τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου ὑπὲρ τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ, ὅ ἐστιν ἡ ἐκκλησία:

Transliteration

Who now chairō in the pathēmasin of me hyper you, and antanaplērō the hysterēmata of the thlipseōn of the Christou in the sarki of me hyper the sōmatos of him, which estin the ekklēsia:

Grammar Details

• *chairō*: present, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I rejoice
• *pathēmasin*: dative, neuter, plural - sufferings, sphere
• *hyper*: preposition with genitive - on behalf of
• *antanaplērō*: present, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I fill up in turn
• *hysterēmata*: accusative, neuter, plural - lacks, direct object
• *thlipseōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - of afflictions, possessive
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ, possessive
• *sarki*: dative, feminine, singular - flesh, location
• *sōmatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of body, beneficiary
• *estin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *ekklēsia*: nominative, feminine, singular - church

Word Meanings

• *chairō*: rejoice/am glad
• *pathēmasin*: sufferings/afflictions/hardships
• *hyper*: on behalf of/for the sake of
• *antanaplērō*: fill up in turn/complete in return/supply
• *hysterēmata*: lacks/deficiencies/what is lacking
• *thlipseōn*: afflictions/troubles/distresses
• *sarki*: flesh/physical body/human nature
• *sōmatos*: body/physical form
• *ekklēsia*: church/assembly/congregation

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
• Rom 5:3 : 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
• 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
• Eph 3:13 : 13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
• Phil 3:10 : 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
• Col 1:18 : 18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
• Jas 1:2 : 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
• 2 Cor 1:5-8 : 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. 7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort. 8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
• Matt 5:11-12 : 11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus' name.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
• Eph 1:23 : 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
• Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
• 2 Tim 2:9-9 : 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained. 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Phil 2:17-18 : 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. 18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.