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Colossians 2:10

COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON Colossians 2:10 you have been filled in him. Believers share in Christ’s power and authority over every rule and authority through their union with him. Here is the letter’s main theme. The divine “fullness” is in Christ (v. Colossians 2:9), and believers are “filled in him.” They have everything they need in Christ. The term head is clearly used here with the sense of “authority over” (see note on 1 Cor. 11:3).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 10. _AND YE ARE COMPLETE IN HIM_] και εστε εν αυτω πεπληρωμενοι. And, ye are filled with him. Our word _complete_ quite destroys the connection subsisting in the apostle's ideas. The philosophy...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Colossians 2:1. _For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;_ Paul had not met these Colossian Christ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Colossians 2:1. _I would that ye knew what great conflict I have,_ in the inward feelings of my heart and wrestlings of prayer, _for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many,_ in the adjacent di...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    AND YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN FULL LIFE IN UNION WITH HIM. No one could offer them more than they already had in Christ. See 1 Corinthians 3:21-23. HE IS SUPREME. Over angels and all creation!...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 2:9. IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY.—There is no minimising the significance of this statement. It is either true or it is the wildes...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Colossians, chapter two. Paul had never visited Colosse. He had heard of the church from Epaphras, who was the minister there, who had told Paul of the love that the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 1:31; 1 Peter 3:22; Colossians 1:16;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Ye are complete in Him [ε σ τ ε ε ν α υ τ ω π ε π λ η ρ ω μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev., made full. Compare John 1:16; Ephesians 1:23; Ephesians 3:19; Ephesians 4:13

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Colossians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter the second chapter of Colossians, we wish to especially note the first verse, under the theme: "The Preacher's Longings after...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And ye — Who believe. Are filled with him — John 1:16. Christ is filled with God, and ye are filled with Christ. And ye are filled by him. The fulness of Christ overflows his church, Psalms 133:3. He...

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