Colossians 1:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Περιπατῆσαι ὑμᾶς ἀξίως τοῦ Κυρίου εἰς πᾶσαν ἀρεσκείαν, ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ ἀγαθῷ καρποφοροῦντες, καὶ αὐξανόμενοι εἰς τὴν ἐπιγνώσιν τοῦ Θεοῦ·

Transliteration

To peripatēsai you axiōs of the Kyriou unto all areskeian, in every ergō agathō karpoforountes, and auxanomenoi unto the epignōsin of Theou;

Grammar Details

• *peripatēsai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to walk
• *axiōs*: adverb - worthily
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Lord, standard
• *areskeian*: accusative, feminine, singular - pleasing, goal
• *ergō*: dative, neuter, singular - work, sphere
• *agathō*: dative, neuter, singular - good, quality
• *karpoforountes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - bearing fruit
• *auxanomenoi*: present, passive/middle, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - growing/increasing
• *epignōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - full knowledge, goal
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God, possessive

Word Meanings

• *peripatēsai*: to walk/live/conduct oneself
• *axiōs*: worthily/suitably/in a manner worthy of
• *areskeian*: pleasing/satisfaction/what is pleasing
• *ergō*: work/deed/action
• *agathō*: good/beneficial/useful
• *karpoforountes*: bearing fruit/being productive
• *auxanomenoi*: growing/increasing/expanding
• *epignōsin*: full knowledge/recognition/acknowledgment

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:1 : 1 Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
• 1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
• Heb 13:21 : 21 make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom `is' the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
• Mic 4:5 : 5 For all the peoples do walk, Each in the name of its god -- and we, We do walk in the name of Jehovah our God, To the age and for ever.
• Rom 6:4 : 4 we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
• 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 and to God `are' thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,
• 2 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 Grace to you, and peace be multiplied in the acknowledgement of God and of Jesus our Lord! 3 As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
• Heb 13:16 : 16 and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.
• Titus 3:14 : 14 and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
• 2 Pet 1:8 : 8 for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.
• Col 2:6 : 6 as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,
• Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.
• Hab 2:14 : 14 For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover `the bottom of' a sea.
• John 15:8 : 8 `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.
• John 15:16 : 16 `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
• Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
• Eph 5:10 : 10 proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,
• Eph 5:15 : 15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
• Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that `is' through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,
• Phil 4:18 : 18 and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:
• Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,
• Eph 2:10 : 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
• Eph 4:13 : 13 till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,
• John 17:3 : 3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
• Isa 53:11 : 11 Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.
• Dan 12:4 : 4 And thou, O Daniel, hide the things, and seal the book till the time of the end, many do go to and fro, and knowledge is multiplied.'
• Col 3:20 : 20 the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
• 2 Cor 9:8 : 8 and God `is' able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,
• 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
• Heb 11:5 : 5 By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,
• Titus 3:1 : 1 Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!
• 2 Tim 2:4 : 4 no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
• Col 4:5 : 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;
• Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Rom 4:12 : 12 and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.