Colossians 3:6

For which things" sake, &c. See Ephesians 5:6 for an almost verbal parallel, only observing that the words "on the children of disobedience" should perhapsbe omitted from the reading here; they are possibly an early insertion from Ephesians.

" The wrath of God" :the eternal personalantagonism of the Holy One, as such, to sin. It is no impulsive "passion," but it is also no figure of speech, however it may be ignored or explained away. Cp. John 3:36; Romans 1:18; Romans 2:5; Romans 2:8; Romans 5:9; Romans 9:22; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Revelation 6:16; Revelation 19:15, &c.; and see Ephesians 2:3, with our note.

" Cometh" : is coming; is on its way, till in "the day of wrath" (Romans 2:5) it falls.

on the children of disobedience So Ephesians 5:6. Documentary evidence is in favour of the retention of these words, but some important documents omit them. Lightfoot pronounces them an interpolation from Eph., but R. V. text retains them.