Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
KJV
ἐν ᾧ εἰσιν πάντες οἱ θησαυροὶ τῆς σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως ἀπόκρυφοι.
Greek NT
in quo sunt omnes thesauri sapientiæ et scientiæ absconditi.
Vulgate
in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
ASV
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γνῶσις
gnosis
noun · 29×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θησαυρός
thesauros
noun · 17×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σοφία
sophia
noun · 51×
ἀπόκρυφος
apokruphos
adjective · 3×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ | RP: + τῆς
- καὶ — SBLGNT
- καὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τῆς — Robinson-Pierpont
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Themes
Historic Christian voices
12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. And ye indeed say that you know even His substance, but that the Son not even the day, the Son, who is always in the bosom of the Father; and yet His substance is much greater than the days, even infinitely greater. How then, while assigning to yourselves the greater things, do you not allow even the less to the Son, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…
§48Christ must be acknowledged Head of the Church for this reason too, that, as supernatural gifts have their fullness and perfection in Him, it is of this fullness that His Mystical Body receives. It is pointed out by many of the Fathers, that as the head of our mortal body is the seat of all the senses, while the other parts of our organism have only the sense of touch, so all t…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…
The design of his confessions being declared, he seeks from God the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and begins to expound the words of Genesis 1:1, concerning the creation of the world. The questions of rash disputers being refuted, What did God before he created the world? That he might the better overcome his opponents, he adds a copious disquisition concerning time. Chapte…
Did Christ have any knowledge besides the Divine? Did He have the knowledge which the blessed or comprehensors have? Did He have an imprinted or infused knowledge? Did He have any acquired knowledge? Article 1. Whether Christ had any knowledge besides the Divine? Objection 1. It would seem that in Christ there was no knowledge except the Divine. For knowledge is necessary that …
The perpetual agreement of the Catholic Church has maintained and maintains this too: that there is a twofold order of knowledge, distinct not only as regards its source, but also as regards its object. With regard to the source: we know in one by natural reason, in the other by divine faith. With regard to the object: because besides those things to which natural reason can at…
He assumed, it is to be noted , the ignorant and servile nature. For it is man's nature to be the servant of God, his Creator, and he does not possess knowledge of the future. If, then, as Gregory the Theologian holds, you are to separate the realm of sight from the realm of thought, the flesh is to be spoken of as both servile and ignorant, but on account of the identity of su…
Stromata (Miscellanies) · 2 passages
Whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just — these belong to God, regardless of who first articulated them. If a Greek philosopher said something true, he borrowed (perhaps unknowingly) from the truth that belongs to Christ. Clement insists that Christians should not fear philosophy but should claim every genuine truth as part of the inher…
The true Gnostic is not the heretical sectarian who claims secret knowledge but the mature Christian who has progressed from faith to knowledge, from milk to solid food. Such a person knows the deep things of God, not through esoteric ritual but through Scripture, prayer, and the disciplined life. Clement reclaims the word "gnosis" from the heretics and defines it as the perfec…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:5 — That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
- 1Cor 1:24 — But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
- 1Cor 1:24 — But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
- 1Cor 1:30 — But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
- 1Cor 2:6 — Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
- 1Kgs 3:12 — Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
- 1Kgs 3:28 — And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
- 2Cor 4:7 — But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
- 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- 2Tim 3:15 — And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
- Col 1:9 — For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
- Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
- Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
- Col 1:27 — To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
- Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Col 3:16 — Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- Deut 34:9 — And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Eph 1:8 — Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
- Eph 1:8 — Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
- Eph 3:9 — And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
- Ezek 28:12 — Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
- Isa 9:6 — For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prin
- Isa 40:14 — With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
- Job 12:13 — With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
- Job 28:12 — But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
- Job 28:21 — Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
- Job 28:21 — Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
- John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- John 1:16 — And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- John 16:15 — All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
- Luke 11:49 — Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
- Matt 10:26 — Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
- Matt 13:44 — Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
- Matt 13:46 — Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
- Prov 1:20 — Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
- Prov 2:4 — If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
- Prov 2:7 — He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
- Prov 8:12 — I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
- Prov 8:14 — Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.