Colossians

No. 195 Colossians 3:17-25
Colossians closes with a household code, a form familiar from Greek and Roman moral writing, which typically instructed the male head of the house on managing wife, children, and slaves. Paul uses the form and...
No. 315 Colossians 2:16-23
Paul is warning the Colossians about a certain kind of religious pressure, the kind that comes from people eager to judge you by what you eat and drink and which holy days you keep. Do not let anyone condemn...
No. 992 Colossians 3:12-16
Paul tells the Colossians how to dress. As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another, and forgive each other as the...
No. 1124 Colossians 3:1-11
Paul draws the practical conclusion from the gospel. If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is seated; set your minds there, not on earthly things, for you have died, and your...
No. 1444 Colossians 4:1-6
Near the end of his letter, Paul gives practical counsel. Masters are to treat their servants justly, remembering they too have a Master in heaven. He urges the church to continue steadfastly in prayer,...
No. 1529 Colossians 1:9-14
Paul prays for the Colossians without ceasing, that they may be filled with the knowledge of God's will, walk worthily of the Lord, bear fruit in every good work, and be strengthened for endurance with joy....
No. 1793 Colossians 1:1-8
Paul opens his letter to the Colossians with thanksgiving. He has heard of their faith in Christ and their love for all God's people, and he traces both to a third thing: because of the hope laid up for you in...
No. 2351 Colossians 4:12-18
Paul closes the letter to Colossae with greetings, and among them he pauses over Epaphras, one of their own. Paul says he is always striving for them in his prayers, that they may stand perfect and complete in...
No. 3040 Colossians 2:1-5
Paul tells the Colossians how hard he struggles for them and for others he has never even met, longing that their hearts be encouraged, knit together in love, and brought to the full riches of assured...
No. 3162 Colossians 4:7-11
Paul closes his letter to the Colossians by naming his coworkers. Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister; Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, one of their own; Aristarchus, his fellow...
No. 3283 Colossians 1:15-20
This is one of the mountain-peaks of Scripture's vision of Christ. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, the one by whom all things were created, in heaven and on earth, and in...
No. 3305 Colossians 2:6-15
Paul gives one governing command: as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith. Beware of being taken captive by hollow philosophy and human...
No. 3574 Colossians 1:21-29
Paul reminds the Colossians of the great change Christ has worked. Once you were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, but now he has reconciled you in his body of flesh by his death, to present you...