Philippians 1:10

World English Bible (2000)

so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰς τὸ δοκιμάζειν ὑμᾶς τὰ διαφέροντα· ἵνα ἦτε εἰλικρινεῖς καὶ ἀπρόσκοποι εἰς ἡμέραν Χριστοῦ·

Transliteration

For the dokimazein you the diapheronta; that you may be eilikrineis and aproskopoi unto hēmeran Christou;

Grammar Details

• *dokimazein*: present active infinitive - to approve/test/discern
• *diapheronta*: present active participle, accusative, neuter, plural - things that differ/excel
• *ēte*: present subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you may be
• *eilikrineis*: nominative, masculine, plural - pure/sincere
• *aproskopoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - without offense/blameless
• *hēmeran*: accusative, feminine, singular - day
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ

Word Meanings

• *dokimazein*: to test/to approve/to discern/to distinguish
• *diapheronta*: things that differ/things that excel/things of value/what matters
• *eilikrineis*: pure/sincere/unmixed/genuine
• *aproskopoi*: without offense/blameless/not causing others to stumble

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Rom 2:18 : 18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
• Phil 1:6 : 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Eph 5:10 : 10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
• 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Acts 24:16 : 16 Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
• Rev 2:2 : 2 "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• Heb 5:12-14 : 12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
• 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.
• Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
• Phil 1:16 : 16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
• 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
• 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
• 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
• Gal 5:11 : 11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
• Eph 4:15 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• Rom 7:16 : 16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
• Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
• Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
• Gen 20:5 : 5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
• Josh 24:14 : 14 "Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
• Job 12:11 : 11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
• Job 34:3 : 3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
• Isa 7:15-16 : 15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
• Amos 5:14-15 : 14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. 15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."
• Mic 3:2 : 2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea. 7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
• Matt 26:33 : 33 But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
• John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.