G1510–εἰμί–eimi

so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,

ἦτε ēte “you may be”

Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation--a token coming from God.

ἐστὶν estin “is”

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

ἐστιν estin “is”

I send him because he is longing to see you all and is distressed at your having heard of his illness.

ἦν ēn “he was”

I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow.

ὦ. ō “may be.”

For we are the true circumcision--we who render to God a spiritual worship and make our boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in outward ceremonies:

ἐσμεν esmen “are”

Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.

ἦν ēn “were”

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever wins respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is of good repute--if there is any virtue or anything deemed worthy of praise--cherish the thought of these things.

ἐστὶν estin “is”

The doctrines and the line of conduct which I taught you--both what you heard and what you saw in me-- hold fast to them; and God who gives peace will be with you.

ἔσται estai “will be”

I do not refer to this through fear of privation, for (for my part) I have learned, whatever be my outward experiences, to be content.

εἰμι eimi “I am”

For it has reached you, and remains with you, just as it has also spread through the whole world, yielding fruit there and increasing, as it has done among you from the day when first you heard it and came really to know the grace of God,

ἐστὶν estin “it is”

as you learned it from Epaphras our dearly-loved fellow servant. He is to you a faithful minister of Christ in our stead,

ἐστιν estin “is”

Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of all creation.

ἐστιν estin “is”

And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe is a harmonious whole.

ἐστιν estin “is”

Moreover He is the Head of His Body, the Church. He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, in order that He Himself may in all things occupy the foremost place.

ἐστιν estin “is”ἐστιν estin “is”

And you, estranged as you once were and even hostile in your minds, amidst your evil deeds,

ὄντας ontas “being”

Now I can find joy amid my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my own person whatever is lacking in Christ's afflictions on behalf of His Body, the Church.

ἐστιν estin “is”

to whom it was His will to make known how vast a wealth of glory for the Gentile world is implied in this truth--the truth that `Christ is in you, the hope of glory.'

ἐστιν estin “is”

In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.

εἰσιν eisin “are”

For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.

εἰμι, eimi “I am,”

Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.

ἔσται estai “there will be”

and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.

ἐστὲ este “you are”ἐστιν estin “is”

And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

ὄντας ontas “being”

The bond, with its requirements, which was in force against us and was hostile to us, He cancelled, and cleared it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross.

ἦν ēn “was”

These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

ἐστιν estin “are”