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Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
COLOSSIANS 2:13 u`ma/j (2) {B} A majority of the Committee preferred u`ma/j, which is adequately supported by a* A C K 81 614 1739 syrp, h copsa, bo eth _al,_ and explained (_a_) its omission from ac...
Verse 13. _AND YOU, BEING DEAD IN YOUR SINS_] Ephesians 2:1, Ephesians 2:1, :, c. _THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH_] This must refer to that part of the Colossian Church which was made up of conver...
AND YOU, BEING DEAD IN YOUR SINS - Notes, Ephesians 2:1. AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH - That is, Gentiles, and giving unrestrained indulgence to the desires of the flesh. They lived as those...
II. COMPLETE IN HIM, IN WHOM ALL THE FULLNESS DWELLS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The mystery of God (Colossians 2:1)_ 2. Complete in Christ (Colossians 2:9) 3. Exhortations and warnings (Colossians 2:16
AN URGENT WARNING AGAINST A DEGRADING THEOSOPHY. Let them not be led away by false reasonings, however persuasive. They must think of Paul, despite his bodily absence, as being with them in spirit (1...
LOVE'S STRUGGLE (Colossians 2:1) _ 2:1 I want you to know how great a struggle I am going through for you, and for the people of Laodicaea, and for all those who have never seen me face to face._ He...
God made you alive with Christ, when you were dead in your sins and were still uncircumcised Gentiles. He forgave you all your sins and wiped out the charge-list which set out all your self-admitted d...
Beware lest there will be anyone who will carry you off as his spoil, by insisting on the necessity of a so-called philosophy, which is, in fact, an empty delusion, a philosophy which has been handed...
BEING. i.e. at that time. SINS, App-128. QUICKENED TOGETHER. made alive together. See Ephesians 2:6. HIM. Texts add, "even you". FORGIVEN. graciously forgiven. App-184. TRESPASSES. Some as "sins...
_And you_ It is as if the Apostle would have written, "_and you with Him_" carrying on the last sentence. But he pauses on the word "_you_," and makes a new statement. _dead in_your _sins_ See Ephesi...
13. St Paul still dwells upon the magnitude of the change wrought in the Colossians through Christ, though he now ceases to place this directly under the figure of circumcision. ΚΑῚ ὙΜΑ͂Σ, “and you to...
_You have in Christ far more than what the false teachers promise you and demand of you, for He is superior to all spiritual powers_ (Colossians 2:8) Be watchful not to be led astray. Many a false tea...
ΌΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Praes. part._ подчеркивает длительную черту, ΠΑΡΆΠΤΩΜΑ (G3900) преступление (_см._ Ephesians 2:1). _Dat._ здесь может быть 10с. или instr., описывающи...
DISCOURSE: 2178 TRIUMPHS OF THE CROSS Colossians 2:13. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; b...
13. AND YOU, BEING DEAD THROUGH YOUR TRESPASSES AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH, YOU, _I SAY,_ DID HE MAKE ALIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM, HAVING FORGIVEN US ALL OUR TRESPASSES; _Translation and Paraph...
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; AND YOU (LIKE OTHERS), BEING DEAD - formerly (Ephesia...
__ The Secret of Christ 23 The scope of reconciliation is not confined to mankind: it is as broad as creation. Its proclamation was made to every creature under heaven. It is God's loving purpose to...
THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH] not physical, as if he meant, 'because you were uncircumcised Gentiles,' for the circumcised Jews also were, in Paul's judgment, spiritually dead. He means the spirit...
THE FALSE TEACHING AND ITS REFUTATION 4-15. Hold fast to Christ the All-sufficient Saviour. PARAPHRASE. '(4) I emphasise these truths about Christ lest you should be beguiled by plausible persuasions...
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 2 V1 I am working for you. I am working for the peo...
AND YOU... — Here, exactly as in Ephesians 2:1, there is a remarkable intermixture of the word “we” and the word “you,” the former conveying the universal statement of the gospel message of mercy, the...
(8-15) The general exhortation of the previous verses is now emphasised by a solemn warning against deadly speculative error. Now, (1) _the character of that error in itself_ is described with apparen...
CHAPTER 2 THE TRUE CIRCUMCISION Colossians 2:11 (R.V.) THERE are two opposite tendencies ever at work in human nature to corrupt religion. One is of the intellect; the other of the senses. The one i...
PAUL URGES HIS READERS NOT TO BE BEGUILED BY PLAUSIBLE WORDS, BUT TO HOLD CHRIST FAST AS THE PRINCIPLE OF MORAL CONDUCT. THEY MUST LET NO ONE TAKE THEM CAPTIVE BY DECEITFUL PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN TRADIT...
Partially parallel to Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 2:5. καὶ ὑμᾶς : “and you”. Frequently this is taken to mean “you also,” _i.e._, you Gentiles. But since Paul has been using the second person before, he...
AVOIDING ERRORS Colossians 2:13 The reiteration of the prepositions in and with emphasizes our close identification with our Savior. Such we are in the purpose of God, and so we should be in daily ex...
If for a moment we glance back at the passage beginning with 1:24 and ending with 2:3, we find reference to a threefold mystery: the first, the Church, which is the Body of Christ; then the secret of...
The Circumcision of Christ The Jews stressed the importance of a physical circumcision. In Christ, sinful ways, to which our fleshly desires lead, are cut off. The "circumcision of Christ" may be his...
(12) And you, being dead in your sins (13) and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; (12) Another thing baptism symbolises is, tha...
(11) In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (12) Buried with him in baptism, wherein...
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...
13._And you, when ye were dead. _He admonishes the Colossians to recognize, what he had treated of in a general way, as applicable to themselves, which is by far the most effectual way of teaching. Fa...
Thus we have a double ministry, as well as a double preeminence of Christ, and a double reconciliation; and each having a similar relationship the one to the other: Christ, the Head of all things in h...
AND YOU BEING DEAD IN YOUR SINS,.... Not corporeally, though sin had subjected them to a corporeal death, and their bodies were really mortal, and in a little time must die; but morally, sin had broug...
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Ver. 13. _And you being dead_] _See Trapp on "_ Eph 2:1...
_And you_ Believing Gentiles; _being_ formerly _dead in your sins_ Under the guilt and power of your sins, (see on Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 2:5,) _and the uncircumcision of your flesh_ Your corrupt an...
DEAD IN YOUR SINS; while in their unconverted state. THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH; that inward uncleanness of soul which their outward state of uncircumcision well represented. QUICKENED; made s...
CHRIST THE SOURCE OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE (vs.1-10) In verse 1 the unselfish faith and love of the apostle shines beautifully. He was as deeply concerned for believers who had not seen him as he was...
New Men in Christ - 2:10-15 10AND YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM, WHO IS THE HEAD OF ALL PRINCIPALITY AND POWER. Those who are in Christ - are complete. What else do we need? Christ is our head, making ou...
AND YOU, BEING DEAD THROUGH YOUR TRESPASSES AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION OF YOUR FLESH, YOU,. SAY, DID HE MAKE ALIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM, HAVING FORGIVEN US ALL OUR TRESPASSES; 'BEING DEAD THROUGH YOUR TRES...
8-17 There is a philosophy which rightly exercises our reasonable faculties; a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God, and confirms our faith in him. But there is a philoso...
AND YOU, BEING DEAD IN YOUR SINS: he further shows they had no need of _circumcision in the flesh,_ EPHESIANS 2:11, having all in Christ for justification as well as sanctification, though they (as we...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Thanks to this simplicity of truth, so opposed to the subtlety and vain deceit of philosophy, we cannot possibly have any relish for such perverse opinions. Then, if...
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‘And you being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.' Paul now makes the significan...
1. _Warning Against being Led Away through the Philosophy of the False Teachers_. This section, which is most directly in opposition to the errors at Colossae, is introduced by a paragraph, expressing...
Colossians 2:13. AND YOU, BEING DEAD; when you were dead, while in this state; comp. throughout Ephesians 2:1. By (or, ‘on account of') YOUR TRESPASSES. The preposition ‘in' is rejected by recent crit...
AND YOU (κα υμας). Emphatic position, object of the verb συνεζωοποιησεν (did he quicken) and repeated (second υμας). You Gentiles as he explains.BEING DEAD THROUGH YOUR TRESPASSES (νεκρους οντας τ...
Colossians 2:13 The New Life. We notice here I. The state of the natural man "dead in sins." The death which holds the cold, lifeless limbs of flesh, is not more true and not half so awful, as this...
Colossians 2:1. _For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;_ Paul had not met these Colossian Christ...
Colossians 2:6. _As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:_ Do not go away from him. You have received him; keep to him. Whatever he was to you at first, let him be that...
Colossians 2:6. _As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:_ That is, keep on as you began. Christ was enough for you when, as poor, guilty sinners, you came and trusted...
CONTENTS: Godhead incarnate in Christ. Danger of those who would entice away from Christ. Philosophy and legality, mysticism and asceticism. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Believers who u...
Colossians 2:1. _I would that ye knew what great conflict I have,_ in the inward feelings of my heart and wrestlings of prayer, _for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many,_ in the adjacent di...
YOU WERE AT ONE TIME. To be dead because of sins is to be without spiritual or eternal life. BUT GOD has now. Through the gospel (Romans 1:16-17). This is God's offer to forgive (Acts 2:38)....
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:12 BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM... ALSO RAISED WITH HIM.... MADE ALIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM. Baptism represents an identification with Christ in his death (compare...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:4 The Dangerous Teaching at Colossae. Paul delivers a series of warnings about the teaching that threatens the Colossian church. In doing so, he also provides important...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 2:14. BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING.—“Wiping out the old score,” as we might say. All that bond which was valid against them Christ had for ever rendered nug...
EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 2:1 SECTION IV. THE APOSTLE'S CONCERN FOR THE COLOSSI. AN CHURCH. So far the contents of the letter have been of a general and preparatory character. New the writer be
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Colossians, chapter two. Paul had never visited Colosse. He had heard of the church from Epaphras, who was the minister there, who had told Paul of the love that the...
1 Corinthians 15:36; 1 Corinthians 15:45; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:12;...
Dead [ν ε κ ρ ο υ ς]. Morally, as Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 1:5; Romans 6:11. In your sins [ε ν τ ο ι ς π α ρ α π τ ω μ α σ ι ν]. The best texts omit ejn in, and the dative is instrumental, through or...
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Colossians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we enter the second chapter of Colossians, we wish to especially note the first verse, under the theme: "The Preacher's Longings after...
And you who were dead — Doubly dead to God, not only wallowing in trespasses, outward sins, but also in the uncircumcision of your flesh — A beautiful expression for original sin, the inbred corruptio...
Still our apostle proceeds in proving, that we are complete in Christ, and that the Colossians had no need of circumcision in the flesh, having all in Christ that was necessary for justification as we...