Philippians 1:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a 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 establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Rom 12:2 : 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
• Rom 2:18 : 18 and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,
• Phil 1:6 : 6 having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform `it' till a day of Jesus Christ,
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable 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 all things prove; that which is good hold fast;
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;
• Acts 24:16 : 16 and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
• Rev 2:2 : 2 I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,
• Heb 5:12-14 : 12 for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, 13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant, 14 and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
• 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;
• Eph 6:24 : 24 The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.
• Phil 1:16 : 16 the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,
• 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
• 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.
• 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,
• 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, 14 and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; 15 no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
• Gal 5:11 : 11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
• Eph 4:15 : 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
• Rom 7:16 : 16 And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that `it is' good,
• Rom 7:22 : 22 for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
• Rom 12:9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling. 21 Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
• Rom 16:17 : 17 And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;
• Gen 20:5 : 5 hath not he himself said to me, She `is' my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He `is' my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.'
• Josh 24:14 : 14 `And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;
• Job 12:11 : 11 Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?
• Job 34:3 : 3 For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
• Isa 7:15-16 : 15 Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good. 16 For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.
• Amos 5:14-15 : 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, And it is so; Jehovah, God of Hosts, `is' with you, as ye said. 15 Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.
• Mic 3:2 : 2 Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,
• Matt 16:23 : 23 and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea. 7 `Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but wo to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!
• Matt 26:33 : 33 And Peter answering said to him, `Even if all shall be stumbled at thee, I will never be stumbled.'
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'
• John 3:20 : 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;