Colossians 1:6

World English Bible (2000)

which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῦ παρόντος εἰς ὑμᾶς, καθὼς καὶ ἐν παντὶ τῷ κόσμῳ· καὶ ἐστὶν καρποφορούμενον, καθὼς καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀφʼ ἧς ἡμέρας ἠκούσατε, καὶ ἐπέγνωτε τὴν χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ:

Transliteration

The parontos to you, kathōs also in all the kosmō; and it estin karpoforoumenon, kathōs also in you, from which hēmeras you ēkousate, and epegnōte the charin of Theou in alētheia:

Grammar Details

• *parontos*: present, active, participle, genitive, neuter, singular - being present/having come
• *kathōs*: comparative adverb - just as/even as
• *kosmō*: dative, masculine, singular - world, location
• *estin*: 3rd person singular, present, active, indicative - is
• *karpoforoumenon*: present, middle, participle, nominative, neuter, singular - bearing fruit
• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - day, possessive/temporal
• *ēkousate*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you heard
• *epegnōte*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you knew fully/recognized
• *charin*: accusative, feminine, singular - grace, direct object
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God, possessive
• *alētheia*: dative, feminine, singular - in truth, manner

Word Meanings

• *parontos*: present/having come/arrived
• *kathōs*: just as/even as/according as
• *kosmō*: world/universe/ordered system
• *karpoforoumenon*: bearing fruit/producing results
• *epegnōte*: knew fully/recognized/acknowledged
• *charin*: grace/favor/goodwill
• *alētheia*: truth/reality/genuineness

Referenced Verses

• John 15:16 : 16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• Col 1:23 : 23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
• Ps 98:3 : 3 He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• Matt 24:14 : 14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
• Mark 4:8 : 8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
• Rom 1:13 : 13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
• Rom 10:17-18 : 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."
• Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
• Rom 15:28 : 28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
• 1 Cor 15:10-11 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• 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,
• Eph 3:2 : 2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;
• Eph 4:21 : 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
• Eph 4:23 : 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
• Eph 5:9 : 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
• Mark 4:26-29 : 26 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. 28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
• Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
• John 4:23 : 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
• Matt 28:19 : 19 Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
• Phil 4:17 : 17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
• Col 1:10 : 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Titus 2:11-12 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
• 1 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Acts 11:18 : 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"
• Acts 12:24 : 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'