Colossians 3:25

But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. BUT. A B C Delta G 'Aleph (') f g, Vulgate, read 'For,' which accords with 'serve ye,' etc. (Colossians 3:24): for gives a motive for obeying the precept. Serve ye the Lord Christ; leave your wrongs as slaves in His hands to put to rights: 'For he (the master) that doeth wrong shall receive back [ komisetai (G2865)] the wrong which he hath done (just retribution in kind); and there is no respect of persons' with the coming Great Judge. He favour the master no more than the slave (Revelation 6:15)....

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 separate the privileges and duties of the gospel. Submission is the duty of wives. But it is submission, not to a severe lord or stern tyrant, but to her own husband, who is engaged to affectionate duty. And husbands must love their wives with tender and faithful affection. Dutiful children are the most likely to prosper. And parents must be tender, as well as children obedient. Servants are to do their duty, and obey their masters' commands, in all things consistent with duty to God their heavenly Master. They must be both just and diligent; without selfish designs, or hypocrisy and disguise. Those who fear God, will be just and faithful when from under their master's eye, because they know they...

Verse Colossians 3:25. _BUT HE THAT DOETH WRONG_] It is possible for an unfaithful servant to wrong and defraud his master in a great variety of ways without being detected; but let all such remember what is here said: He that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done; God sees him, and will punish him for his breach of honesty and trust. Wasting, or not taking proper care of the goods of your master, is such a _wrong_ as God will resent. He that is unfaithful in that which is _little_, will be unfaithful in _much_, if he have opportunity; and God alone is the defence against an unfaithful servant. _THERE IS NO RESPECT_] God neither _esteems_ nor _despises_ any man because of his _outward condition_ and _circumstances_; for there is no respect of persons with him. Every man is, in the eye of God, w

SERVANTS, OBEY IN ALL THINGS ... - ; see the notes at Ephesians 6:5....

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 ...

BUT HE THAT DOTH WRONG,.... Which may be understood, both of servants that do wrong to their masters through sloth and idleness, neglecting their business, embezzling their masters' goods, and defrauding them of their substance; and of masters that injure their servants by withholding from them proper food, and raiment; by cheating them of their wages, either giving them none at all, or too little, or detaining them too long, and by giving them bad language, and hard blows, and such like severe usage: SHALL RECEIVE FOR THE WRONG WHICH HE HATH DONE; either in this world, or in the other; God will avenge all such injuries, sooner or later; so that these words may be considered either as said with a view to deter servants from evil practices, or to comfort them under the maltreatment they may meet with from cruel masters: AND THERE IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS. The Vulgate Latin and Arabic Ve...

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._ Oh! how often we need to be called to this, for the flesh is groveling, and it holds down the spirit; and very often we are seeking the things below as if we had not yet attained to the new life, and did not know anything about the resurrection power of Christ within the soul. Now, if it be that you, believers, have risen with Christ, do not live as if you had never done so, but «seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.» Colossians 3:2. _Set your affection._ Not «your affections.» Tie them up into one bundle. Make one of them....

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

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 harass their children (Colossians 3:21). Slaves who labour worthily shall have an inheritance in heaven (Colossians 3:24)....

THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...