What does Colossians 3:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."
Verse 24. _THE REWARD OF THE INHERITANCE_] Here, ye have neither _lands_ nor _property_; ye are _servants_ or _slaves_; be not discouraged, ye have an inheritance in store; be faithful unto God and to...
SERVANTS, OBEY IN ALL THINGS ... - ; see the notes at Ephesians 6:5....
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. Man...
COLOSSIANS 3:18 TO COLOSSIANS 4:1. CERTAIN DUTIES INTERPRETED IN RELATION TO CHRIST. _ Cf._ Ephesians 5:22 *. Col. omits the simile of Christ and the Church. A reason is given why fathers should not h...
THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...
KNOWING. App-132. OF. App-104. REWARD. recompense. Greek. _anta podosia,_ Only here. INHERITANCE. See Ephesians 1:14. SERVE, App-190....
_knowing_ as a certainty of the Gospel. So Ephesians 6:8. For the Christian's prospect of "_reward_" cp. Matthew 5:12; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 6:4; Matthew 16:27; Luke 6:35; Luke 14:14; Romans 2:6-10; 2...
5–4:1. _Practical duties_ Colossians 3:5-17, in the individual life; Colossians 3:18_ to_ Colossians 4:1, in the social relations of a household....
ΕΊΔΌΤΕΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΟΊΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ ΆΠΟΛΉΜΨΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΑΠΟΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G618) получать от кого-л. Предлог указывает на то, что вознаграждение...
23. WHATSOEVER YE DO, WORK HEARTILY, AS UNTO THE LORD, AND NOT UNTO MEN; 24. KNOWING THAT FROM THE LORD YE SHALL RECEIVE THE RECOMPENCE OF THE INHERITANCE: YE SERVE THE LORD CHRIST. _Translation and...
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. REWARD, [ antapodosin (G469 )] OF THE INHERITANCE - `Knowing that it is from the Lord (the Fount...
_CORRECTION-DEPORTMENT_ 17 We should always distinguish between our place "in _ Christ_ " and "in the Lord". "In _ Christ_ " physical distinctions vanish, even the distinction between the sexes is go...
3:24 serve (a-15) _ Douleuo_ , serve as a bondman, see Note, 1 Corinthians 4:1 ....
THE CHRISTIAN'S RISEN LIFE AND THE DUTIES IT ENTAILS 1-4. Resurrection with Christ and the heavenly life. PARAPHRASE] '(1) Seeing then that at your conversion you shared not Christ's death only, but...
CHRIST HAS EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED THE COLOSSIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 3 HOW TO LIVE YOUR NEW LIFE WITH CHRIST V1 You have...
[6. Special Exhortation as to the relations of life. (1) THE DUTY OF WIVES AND HUSBANDS (Colossians 3:18). (2) THE DUTY OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS (Colossians 3:20). (3) THE DUTY OF SLAVES AND MAS...
CHAPTER 3 THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY Colossians 3:18; Colossians 4:1 (R.V.) This chapter deals with the Christian family, as made up of husband and wife, children, and servants. In the family, Christiani...
to Colossians 4:1. ENFORCEMENT OF THE RECIPROCAL DUTIES OF WIVES AND HUSBANDS, CHILDREN AND PARENTS, SLAVES AND MASTERS, WITH FREQUENT REFERENCE TO THESE DUTIES AS INVOLVED IN THEIR DUTY TO CHRIST. In...
HOME AND BUSINESS RELATIONS Colossians 3:18; Colossians 4:1 From these high flights into the eternal and divine, Paul turns to the daily duties of the home, and demands that in the simplest domestic...
The believer is to "seek the things... above." The word "seek" marks aspiration, desire, and passion. The things above are those of the empire of Christ. In order to seek these things the mind must be...
Instructions for Servants and Masters Paul has been criticized by some for not openly condemning slavery. However, the instructions he gave to slave and master must have hastened that terrible system...
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the (p) reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. (p) Because you will have duly obeyed your masters, the time will come, that you will be cha...
(18) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. (19) Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. (20) Children, obey your parents in all things: for this...
The most cursory reader discerns at once that the epistle to the Colossians is the counterpart of that to the Ephesians. They are in nowise the same, but may be viewed each as a supplement to the othe...
_RULES OF SERVICE_ ‘Servants, obey in all things your masters … not with eye-service … but in singleness of heart … do it heartily, as to the Lord … for ye serve the Lord Christ.’ Colossians 3:22 S...
Now begins the direct exhortations founded on the truth that has been developed, and adapted to the state in which the Colossians were; that is, viewed as risen with Christ, but not sitting in heavenl...
KNOWING THAT OF THE LORD YE SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF THE INHERITANCE,.... This is said for the encouragement of Christian servants, who, though they may receive little or nothing from their earthly...
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. Ver. 24. _The reward of inheritance_] And so be made of servants sons, whose it is to inherit....
_Wives, submit yourselves_ Or be subject; _to your own husbands_ Whether they be Christians or heathen. See on Ephesians 5:22. _As it is fit_ Both in regard of God's command, and the evil that would a...
On these verses see the notes on the very similar passage, Ephesians 5:19-33; Ephesians 6:1-9....
The conduct of Christians in various stations in life:...
CHANGING THE OLD FOR THE NEW (vs.1-11) We have seen some practical exhortations mingled with the doctrine of this epistle. Now this chapter begins what is mainly practical instruction based on the t...
Practical Injunctions - 3:18 - 4:1 18WIVES, SUBMIT TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS, AS IS FITTING IN THE LORD. As he does in several letters, Paul spends some time in the practical area and addresses several g...
KNOWING THAT FROM THE LORD YE SHALL RECEIVE THE RECOMPENSE OF THE INHERITANCE: YE SERVE THE LORD CHRIST. 'KNOWING' -The right perspective can make all the difference in the world and in eternity. '...
18-25 The epistles most taken up in displaying the glory of the Divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular in pressing the duties of the Christian life. We must never separa...
KNOWING, being fully persuaded of this undoubted truth, THAT OF THE LORD, who superintends all your services, (not for any merit of yours), EPHESIANS 6:8, the recompence which your Master in heaven ha...
Colossians 3:24 knowing G1492 (G5761) that G3754 from G575 Lord G2962 receive G618 (G5695) reward G469 inheritance G2817 for G1063 serve G1398 (G5719) Lord G2962 Christ G5547 you shall - Colossians 2...
‘Servants obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do work heartily as to...
III. HORTATORY PART: LIVE AS THOSE SHOULD LIVE WHO WERE RAISED WITH CHRIST THE HEAD. (1.) Fellowship with the Exalted Christ the motive for the new life; Colossians 3:1-4. (Transitive paragraph.) (2...
YE SHALL RECEIVE (απολημψεσθε). Future middle indicative of απολαμβανω, old verb, to get back (απο), to recover.THE RECOMPENSE (ανταποδοσιν). "The full recompense," old word, in LXX, but only her...
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. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth._ Th...
CONTENTS: Believer's union with Christ here and hereafter, and the fruit of such union. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The true believer is united with Christ in a union which can never...
Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ,_ above the darkness and torpor of the present world, as in Colossians 2:20, live in conformity to your hope, by seeking _those things that are above._...
FOR CHRIST IS THE REAL MASTER YOU SERVE. Every man is to us _"Christ by proxy_." See Matthew 25:31-46. [Note that these have done either good or bad to Christ by proxy.]...
_Servants, obey in all things your masters._ SERVANTS AND MASTERS I. A precept of obedience. 1. The occasion of this precept seems to spring from the circumstance that converted servants thought th...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:22 BONDSERVANTS, OBEY IN EVERYTHING THOSE WHO ARE YOUR EARTHLY MASTERS. God has ordered family relationships from creation, and Paul’s instructions on marriage represen...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 3:23. WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO IT HEARTILY.— Ephesians 6:7, “With good will doing service.” R.V. gives the distinction which is obliterated by “do, do” of A.V....
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...
So then, If then you are risen with Christ [If you are risen with Christ... going back to buried with Christ in baptism, now risen with Him], seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth a...
1 Corinthians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Corinthians 9:17; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Peter 1:1; Colossians 2:18; Ephesians 6:6; Ephesians 6:8; Galatians 1:10;...
Of the inheritance. Which consists or is in the inheritance. Compare the similar construction, ch Colossians 1:12. See Matthew 21:35-38, where the doulov bond - servant and the klhronomov heir are con...
PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN LIVING Colossians 3:15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts. 2. The call of God to the Church, His Body. 3. Be ye thankful. 4. Let the Word of God d...