Colossians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the (a) will of God, and Timotheus [our] brother, (a) By the free bountifulness of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the (a) will of God, and Timotheus [our] brother, (a) By the free bountifulness of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at (b) Colosse: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (b) Colosse is situated in Phrygia, not far from Hierapolis and Laodicea, on that side that faces toward Lycia and Pamphylia.... [ Continue Reading ]
(1) We give thanks to God and the (c) Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, (1) He commends the doctrine that was delivered to them by Epaphras, and their readiness in receiving it. (c) We cannot otherwise think of God to be our salvation, except that he is Christ's Father, in w... [ Continue Reading ]
For the (d) hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; (d) For the glory that is hoped for.... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) Who also declared unto us your love in the (e) Spirit. (2) He declares his good will towards them, telling them that they must not still remain at one place, but go on further both in the knowledge of the Gospel, and also in the true use of it. (e) Your spiritual love, or your love which comes... [ Continue Reading ]
For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of (f) his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; (f) God's will.... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with (g) joyfulness; (3) The gift of continuance is not from us, but it proceeds from the power of God, which he freely gives us. (g) It must not be unwilling, and as it were drawn out of us by fo... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) Giving thanks unto the (5) Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in (h) light: (4) Having ended the preface, he goes to the matter itself, that is to say, to an excellent description (although it is but short) of complete Christianity, which is fitly di... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins: (6) The matter itself of our salvation is Christ the Son of God, who has obtained remission of sins for us by the offering up of himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) Who is the image of the invisible God, (i) the firstborn of every creature: (7) A graphic description of the person of Christ, by which we understand, that in him alone God shows himself to be seen: who was begotten of the Father before anything was made, that is, from everlasting. And by him a... [ Continue Reading ]
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] (k) thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (k) He sets forth the angels with glorious names, so that by the comparison o... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the (l) firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence. (8) Having gloriously declared the excellent dignity of the person of Christ, he describes his office and function, that is, that he is the same... [ Continue Reading ]
For it pleased [the Father] that in him should (m) all fulness dwell; (m) Most plentiful abundance of all things pertaining to God.... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile (n) all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven. (9) Now he teaches how Christ executed that office which his Father gave and commanded to him, that is, by suffering t... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath (o) he reconciled (10) Sanctification is another work of God in us by Christ, in that that he restored us (who hated God extremely and were wholly and willingly given to sin) to his gracious favour i... [ Continue Reading ]
In the body of his (p) flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (p) In that fleshly body, to show us that his body was not an unreal body, but a real one.... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to (q) every creature which is under heaven; (12) whereof I Paul am made a minister; (11) The second treatise of this part of the epistle, in whi... [ Continue Reading ]
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for (r) you, and fill up (s) that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: (r) For our profit and benefit. (s) The afflictions of the Church are said to be Christ's afflictions, by reason of that fellowship... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; (13) He brings another proof of his apostleship, that is, that God is the author of it, by whom also he was appointed especially as apostle for the Gentiles, to the end t... [ Continue Reading ]
[Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his (t) saints: (t) Whom he chose to sanctify to himself in Christ. Moreover, he says that the mystery of our redemption was hidden since the world began, except that it was revealed to a few, who als... [ Continue Reading ]
To whom God (u) would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (u) In this way Paul restrains the curiosity of men.... [ Continue Reading ]
(14) Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in (x) all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: (14) He protests that he faithfully executes his apostleship in every place, bringing men to Christ only through the Lord's plentiful blessing of his labours. (x... [ Continue Reading ]