Colossians 1:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye 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 `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.
• Col 1:23 : 23 if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
• Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that `is' through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few `words' I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.
• Ps 98:3 : 3 He hath remembered His kindness, And His faithfulness to the house of Israel, All ends of earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• Matt 24:14 : 14 and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.
• Mark 4:8 : 8 and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'
• Rom 1:13 : 13 And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.
• Rom 10:17-18 : 17 so then the faith `is' by a report, and the report through a saying of God, 18 but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- `to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'
• Rom 15:19 : 19 in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;
• Rom 15:28 : 28 This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;
• Rom 16:26 : 26 and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --
• 1 Cor 15:10-11 : 10 and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me; 11 whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --
• 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,
• Eph 3:2 : 2 if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,
• Eph 4:21 : 21 if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;
• Eph 4:23 : 23 and to 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 And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth, 27 and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how; 28 for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear; 29 and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'
• Mark 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
• John 4:23 : 23 but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;
• Matt 28:19 : 19 having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them -- to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
• Ps 110:3 : 3 Thy people `are' free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.
• Phil 4:17 : 17 not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;
• Col 1:10 : 10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
• 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,
• Titus 2:11-12 : 11 For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, 12 teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,
• 1 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied! 3 Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
• Acts 11:18 : 18 And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'
• Acts 12:24 : 24 And the word of God did grow and did multiply,
• Acts 16:14 : 14 and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me.