Colossians 1:28

World English Bible (2000)

whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὃν ἡμεῖς καταγγέλλομεν, νουθετοῦντες πάντα ἄνθρωπον, καὶ διδάσκοντες πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐν πάσῃ σοφίᾳ· ἵνα παραστήσωμεν πάντα ἄνθρωπον τέλειον ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ:

Transliteration

Whom we katangellomen, nouthetountes every anthrōpon, and didaskontes every anthrōpon in all sofia; that we might parastēsōmen every anthrōpon teleion in Christō Iēsou:

Grammar Details

• *katangellomen*: present, active, indicative, 1st person plural - we proclaim
• *nouthetountes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - admonishing
• *anthrōpon*: accusative, masculine, singular - man/person
• *didaskontes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - teaching
• *sofia*: dative, feminine, singular - wisdom, manner
• *parastēsōmen*: aorist, active, subjunctive, 1st person plural - we might present
• *teleion*: accusative, masculine, singular - complete
• *Christō*: dative, masculine, singular - in Christ, sphere
• *Iēsou*: dative, masculine, singular - Jesus, appositional

Word Meanings

• *katangellomen*: proclaim/announce/declare
• *nouthetountes*: admonishing/warning/instructing
• *anthrōpon*: person/human being/man
• *didaskontes*: teaching/instructing
• *sofia*: wisdom/insight/skill
• *parastēsōmen*: might present/bring/place before
• *teleion*: complete/perfect/mature

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:11-13 : 11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
• Eph 5:27 : 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Col 1:22 : 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
• 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
• Matt 5:48 : 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
• Jer 3:15 : 15 I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
• 2 Tim 2:24-25 : 24 The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• 1 Thess 5:12-14 : 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
• 1 Cor 2:15 : 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
• 1 Cor 4:14 : 14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
• 1 Cor 15:12 : 12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
• 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
• 2 Cor 10:14 : 14 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
• 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• Col 2:10 : 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
• 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
• Phil 1:15-18 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will. 16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains; 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News. 18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
• Deut 4:5 : 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
• Prov 8:5 : 5 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.
• Eccl 12:9 : 9 Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
• Rom 16:25 : 25
• 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
• Ezek 3:17-21 : 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. 20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
• Ezek 7:10 : 10 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
• Ezek 33:4-9 : 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 8 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
• Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
• Mark 6:34 : 34 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
• Luke 21:15 : 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
• Acts 3:20 : 20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,
• Acts 5:42 : 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
• Acts 8:5 : 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
• Acts 8:35 : 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
• Acts 9:20 : 20 Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
• Acts 10:36 : 36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all--
• Acts 11:20 : 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 13:38 : 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
• Acts 17:3 : 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
• Acts 17:18 : 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
• Acts 20:27-28 : 27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• Heb 10:14 : 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.