What Does Colossians 2:10 Mean?
and you have been filled in him, who is the head of every rule and authority.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:THE KEY
You are already filled in the one who stands over every power.
THE MEANING
You are filled in him, and that fullness is your present standing. The one who holds all rule and authority is the one in whom you are filled. Your completeness rests in him now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that you must accumulate enough to become complete. This verse locates your fullness in him already.
THE ROOT
πεπληρωμένοι
peplērōmenoi
GROWS FROM
πληρόω
Fill, make full, bring to fullness.
The Greek form is a perfect passive: you have been filled, and that fullness stands as your present condition. The next verse says all fullness dwells in him, so “complete” carries the sense of being filled from the fullness that is already in him.
ALSO GROWS
plērōma: Fullness; that which fills or is full.
πλήρωμα
The same word family appears in the preceding verse, where all fullness dwells in him.
anaplēroō: Fill up; supply what is lacking.
ἀναπληρόω
This related verb makes the root’s movement vivid: fullness is what fills the measure.
THE PATTERN
Fullness is found in God’s presence and received through the one in whom it dwells.
You make me perceive the path of life; before your face is the fullness of joy, and at your right hand are sweetnesses forever.And from his fullness we have all taken, and favor for favor.For in him settles all the filling of the divinity, bodily.THE THREAD
For in him settles all the filling of the divinity, bodily.The same Greek word family links “fulness” here with “complete” in the next verse. All fullness dwells in him; you are filled in him.
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