Colossians 3:13

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. FORBEARING - as to present offences. FORGIVING - as to past. ONE ANOTHER [ alleeloon (G240 )] ... ONE ANOTHER, [ heautois (G1438)] - literally, yourselves: one Christian "forbearing" the other; each "forgiving" all; so doing a benefit redounding to HIMSELF, he being included in the all, Christians being members of each other. QUARREL, [ momfeen (G3437)] - 'cause of complaint.' CHRIST - who had so infinitely greater cause of complaint against us...

12-17 We must not only do no hurt to any, but do what good we can to all. Those who are the elect of God, holy and beloved, ought to be lowly and compassionate towards all. While in this world, where there is so much corruption in our hearts, quarrels will sometimes arise. But it is our duty to forgive one another, imitating the forgiveness through which we are saved. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts; it is of his working in all who are his. Thanksgiving to God, helps to make us agreeable to all men. The gospel is the word of Christ. Many have the word, but it dwells in them poorly; it has no power over them. The soul prospers, when we are full of the Scriptures and of the grace of Christ. But when we sing psalms, we must be affected with what we sing. Whatever we are employed about, let us do every thing in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in believing dependence on him. Those wh...

Verse 13. _FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER_] Avoid all occasions of irritating or provoking each other. _FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER_] If ye receive offence, be instantly ready to forgive on the first acknowledgment of the fault. _EVEN AS CHRIST FORGAVE YOU_] Who required no satisfaction, and sought for nothing in you but the broken, contrite heart, and freely forgave you as soon as you returned to Him. No man should for a moment harbour ill will in his heart to any; but the offended party is not called actually to forgive, till the offender, with sorrow, acknowledges his fault. He should be _ready_ to forgive, and while he is so, he can neither feel hatred nor malice towards the offender; but, as Christ does not forgive us till with penitent hearts we return unto him, acknowledging our offences, so those who have trespassed against their neighbour are not to expect any act of forgiveness from the p...

FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER - Notes, Ephesians 4:2. AND FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER - Notes, Matthew 6:12, Matthew 6:14. IF ANY MAN HAVE A QUARREL AGAINST ANY - Margin, “or complaint.” The word used here - μομφή momphē - occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It means, “fault found, blame, censure;” and here denotes occasion of complaint. The idea is, that if another one has given us just occasion of complaint, we are to forgive him; that is, we are: (1)To harbor no malice against him;...

EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 3:1 SECTION VII. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE. The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the controversial to the more practical purport of his letter. There is no break, however, in the current of his thought; for throughout this chapter he urges the pursuit of a practical Christian life in a sense and in a manner silently opposed to the tendencies of Gnosticizing error. How much more congenial was the task to which he now addresses himself we may judge, perhaps, from the ease and simplicity which mark the language of this chapter, as compared with the abrupt and seemingly embarrassed style of the last section. We may analyze the hortatory section of the Epistle ...

FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER,.... Not only bearing one another's burdens, and with one another's weaknesses, but forbearing to render evil for evil, or railing for railing, or to seek revenge for affronts given, in whatsoever way, whether by words or deeds: AND FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER; all trespasses and offences, so far as committed against themselves, and praying to God to forgive them, as committed against him: IF ANY MAN HAVE A QUARREL AGAINST ANY; let him be who he will, high or low, rich or poor, of whatsoever age, state, or condition, and let his quarrel or complaint be what it will, ever so great, or ever so just and well founded, yet let him put up with it, and forgive it: EVEN AS CHRIST FORGAVE YOU, so also do ye; what God is said to do for Christ's sake, Ephesians 4:32, what here Christ is said to do: as Mediator, he has procu

Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God._ Your Lord and Master has gone up to heaven. You profess that he represents you, and that you have gone up there in him and with him. Then do not seek the things that are down here below, the things of earth; but live where your life has gone. Where your treasure is, there let your heart be also. «Seek those things which are above.» Colossians 3:2. _Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead,_ You profess to be dead to the world; is that profession false? You have observed that Scriptural ordinance in which you profess to be buried with Christ; was that observance only an empty form?...

COLOSSIANS 3:13 ku,rioj {C} On the strength of the weight of î46 joined by the best witnesses of both the Alexandrian and the Western texts (A B D* G itd, g vg Speculum _al_) the Committee preferred ku,rioj, and explained Cristo,j (ac C Dc K P Y 614 1739 _Byz Lect_ itb, d, f, g, o syrp, h copsa, bo goth eth Clement _al_) as an interpretation by copyists of the more indefinite ku,rioj, and the other two variant readings (qeo,j a* and qeo.j evn Cristw|/ 33 arm Augustine½...

III. THE PRACTICAL RESULTS: LIVING AS RISEN WITH CHRIST (3-4) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The life hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1)_ 2. The contrast: The old man and the new man (Colossians 3:5) 3. Manifesting Christ (Colossians 3:12) 4. Relationships (Colossians 3:18; Colossians 4:1) Colossians 3:1 Risen with Christ; such is the believer's position. “Ye are dead and your life is hid with Chri

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE RISEN WITH CHRIST. Those who are risen with Christ must aspire to the things above, in the region of Christ's heavenly session at God's right hand. Their minds must be set, not on terrestrial things, but on things high and heavenly. So far as their old life was concerned they died (_i.e._ in baptism); their life now is a hidden life in God. That is what it means to be united with Christ (Colossians 3:3). It is Christ who is our life. Hidden though He be, He shall be manifested at His coming: and His manifestation will involve our manifestation also with Him in glory (Colossians 3:4). Put to death then the members on the earth fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil lust, covetousness. These things incur God's wrath. The Colossians had formerly practised them; but they must now,