Colossians 1:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

whom we proclaim, warning 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 and He gave some `as' apostles, and some `as' prophets, and some `as' proclaimers of good news, and some `as' shepherds and teachers, 12 unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ, 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,
• Eph 5:27 : 27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
• Col 1:22 : 22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
• 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
• Matt 5:48 : 48 ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who `is' in the heavens is perfect.
• Jer 3:15 : 15 And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.
• 2 Tim 2:24-25 : 24 and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, 25 in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,
• 1 Thess 5:12-14 : 12 And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you, 13 and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves; 14 and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;
• Acts 20:31 : 31 `Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;
• 1 Cor 2:15 : 15 and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;
• 1 Cor 4:14 : 14 Not `as' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,
• 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
• 1 Cor 15:12 : 12 And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?
• 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
• 2 Cor 10:14 : 14 for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,
• 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
• Eph 3:8 : 8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
• Col 2:10 : 10 and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
• 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,
• Phil 1:15-18 : 15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ; 16 the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds, 17 and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set: 18 what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed -- and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.
• Deut 4:5 : 5 `See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;
• Prov 8:5 : 5 Understand, ye simple ones, prudence, And ye fools, understand the heart,
• Eccl 12:9 : 9 And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes.
• Rom 16:25 : 25 And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent,
• 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,
• Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear `is' uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.
• Ezek 3:17-21 : 17 that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me. 18 In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require. 19 And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered. 20 `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require. 21 And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteous -- that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.'
• Ezek 7:10 : 10 Lo, the day, lo, it hath come, Gone forth hath the morning, Blossomed hath the rod, flourished the pride.
• Ezek 33:4-9 : 4 And the hearer hath heard the voice of the trumpet, and he hath not taken warning, And come in doth the sword, and taketh him away, His blood is on his head. 5 The voice of the trumpet he heard, And he hath not taken warning, his blood is on him, And he who took warning his soul hath delivered. 6 And the watchman, when he seeth the sword coming in, And he hath not blown with a trumpet, And the people hath not been warned, And come in doth a sword, And taketh away of them -- a soul, He in his iniquity is taken away, And his blood from the hand of the watchman I require. 7 And thou, son of man, A watchman I gave thee to the house of Israel, And thou hast heard from My mouth a word, And thou hast warned them from Me. 8 In My saying to the wicked, O wicked one -- thou dost surely die, And thou hast not spoken to warn the wicked from his way, He -- the wicked -- in his iniquity doth die, And his blood from thy hand I require. 9 And thou, when thou hast warned the wicked of his way, to turn back from it, And he hath not turned back from his way, He in his iniquity doth die, And thou thy soul hast delivered.
• Matt 3:7 : 7 And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
• Mark 6:34 : 34 and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.
• Luke 21:15 : 15 for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.
• Acts 3:20 : 20 and He may send Jesus Christ who before hath been preached to you,
• Acts 5:42 : 42 every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news -- Jesus the Christ.
• Acts 8:5 : 5 And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ,
• Acts 8:35 : 35 and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.
• Acts 9:20 : 20 and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
• Acts 10:36 : 36 the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news -- peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,)
• Acts 11:20 : 20 and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news -- the Lord Jesus,
• Acts 13:38 : 38 `Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared,
• Acts 17:3 : 3 opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ -- Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'
• Acts 17:18 : 18 And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,
• Acts 20:27-28 : 27 for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God. 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
• Heb 10:14 : 14 for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;
• 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.
• 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!