Colossians 1:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood 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 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
• Col 1:23 : 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
• Phil 1:11 : 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 Final Greetings Through Silvanus, whom I know to be a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, in order to encourage you and testify that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.
• Ps 98:3 : 3 He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel. All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us.
• Matt 24:14 : 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
• Mark 4:8 : 8 But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”
• Rom 1:13 : 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you(and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
• Rom 10:17-18 : 17 Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ. 18 But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
• Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
• Rom 15:28 : 28 Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,
• Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
• 1 Cor 15:10-11 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 God’s Suffering Servants Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
• 2 Cor 10:14 : 14 For we were not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach as far as you, because we were the first to reach as far as you with the gospel about Christ.
• Eph 3:2 : 2 if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,
• Eph 4:21 : 21 if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.
• Eph 4:23 : 23 to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
• Eph 5:9 : 9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–
• Mark 4:26-29 : 26 The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground. 27 He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”
• Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
• John 4:23 : 23 But a time is coming– and now is here– when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
• Matt 28:19 : 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
• Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people willingly follow you when you go into battle. On the holy hills at sunrise the dew of your youth belongs to you.
• Phil 4:17 : 17 I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.
• Col 1:10 : 10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
• 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction(surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
• Titus 2:11-12 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. 12 It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• 1 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure! 3 New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Acts 11:18 : 18 When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying,“So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”
• Acts 12:24 : 24 But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.
• Acts 16:14 : 14 A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, a God-fearing woman, listened to us. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’