Colossians 1:24

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, 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 thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,
• Rom 5:3 : 3 And not only `so', but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;
• 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,
• Eph 3:13 : 13 wherefore, I ask `you' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
• Phil 3:10 : 10 to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
• Col 1:18 : 18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,
• Jas 1:2 : 2 All joy count `it', my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;
• 2 Cor 1:5-8 : 5 because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort; 6 and whether we be in tribulation, `it is' for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, `it is' for your comfort and salvation; 7 and our hope `is' stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort. 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;
• Matt 5:11-12 : 11 `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake -- 12 rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward `is' great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, 11 for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh, 12 so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; 24 from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive; 25 thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; 26 journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; 27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
• Eph 1:23 : 23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,
• Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,
• 2 Tim 2:9-9 : 9 in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound; 10 because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.
• Phil 2:17-18 : 17 but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all, 18 because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.