Colossians 1:6 BSB — MannaFest

Colossians 1:6

that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

KJV

Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Which is come unto you - The doctrine of the Gospel is represented as a traveler, whose object it is to visit the whole habitable earth; and, having commenced his journey in Judea, had proceeded through Syria and through different parts of Asia Minor, and had lately arrived at their city, every where proclaiming glad tidings of great joy to all people.

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Original language & word study

30 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τοῦ	tou	which	G3588 →
παρόντος	parontos	is being present	G3918 →
εἰς	eis	unto	G1519 →
ὑμᾶς,	humas	you,	G4771 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
παντὶ	panti	all	G3956 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
κόσμῳ	kosmō	world	G2889 →
ἐστὶν	estin	it is	G1510 →
καρποφορούμενον	karpophoroumenon	bearing fruit	G2592 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
αὐξανόμενον	auxanomenon	increasing	G837 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ἐν	en	among	G1722 →
ὑμῖν	humin	you	G4771 →
ἀφ᾽	aph᾽	from	G575 →
ἧς	hēs	the	G3739 →
ἡμέρας	hēmeras	day	G2250 →
ἠκούσατε	ēkousate	you heard	G191 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐπέγνωτε	epegnōte	you knew	G1921 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
χάριν	charin	grace	G5485 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἀληθείᾳ,	alētheia	truth,	G225 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
leads to
- Jeremiah 1:5–7
  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- John 15:19
  If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- 2 Timothy 3:15–17
  From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 1:15
  But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
Through
Colossians 1:23
if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul,…
leads to
- Hebrews 3:14
  We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
- Hebrews 3:6
  But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
- Matthew 24:13–14
  But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.