Colossians 1:6

Which is come unto you [τ ο υ π α ρ ο ν τ ο ς ε ι ς υ μ α ς]. Lit., which is present unto you. Has come and is present. Compare Luke 11:7, "are with me into bed."

In all the world. Hyperbolical. Compare Romans 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; Acts 17:6. Possibly with a suggestion of the universal character of the Gospel as contrasted with the local and special character of false Gospels. Compare ver. 23.

And bringeth forth fruit [κ α ι ε σ τ ι κ α ρ π ο φ ο ρ ο υ μ ε ν ο ν]. Lit., and is bearing fruit. The text varies. The best texts omit and. Some join esti is with the previous clause, as it is in all the world, and take bearing fruit as a parallel participle. So Rev. Others, better, join is with the participle, "even as it is bearing fruit." This would emphasize the continuous fruitfulness of the Gospel. The middle voice of the verb, of which this is the sole instance, marks the fruitfulness of the Gospel by its own inherent power. Compare the active voice in ver. 10, and see Mark 4:28, " the earth bringeth forth fruit aujtomath of herself, self - acting. For a similar use of the middle, see show, Ephesians 2:7; worketh, Galatians 5:6.

Increasing [α υ ξ α ν ο μ ε ν η ν]. Not found in Tex. Rec., nor in A. V., but added in later and better texts, and in Rev. "Not like those plants which exhaust themselves in bearing fruit. The external growth keeps pace with the reproductive energy" (Lightfoot). "It makes wood as well" [μ α χ λ α ρ ε ν].