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Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding there in with thanksgiving.
rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding there in with thanksgiving.
COLOSSIANS 2:7 th|/ pi,stei {A} The reading th|/ pi,stei, strongly supported by B D* H 33 81 _al_, best accounts for the rise of the other readings....
Verse 7. _ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM_] It is not usual with the apostle to employ this double metaphor, taken partly from the _growth of a tree_ and the _increase of a building_. They are to be _root...
ROOTED ...IN HIM - As a tree strikes its roots deep in the earth, so our faith should strike deep into the doctrine respecting the Saviour. See the phrase used here explained in the parallel place in...
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...
My struggle is that their hearts may be encouraged, that they may be united together in love, that they may come to all the wealth of the assured ability to take the right decision in any situation, t...
ROOTED. See Ephesians 3:17. BUILT UP. See Acts 20:33, and compare Ephesians 2:20. STABLISHED. See Romans 15:8 (confirm).
_rooted_ A perfect participle. It recurs Ephesians 3:17, the only other place in which St Paul uses precisely this metaphor, which combines the thought of fixity with that of derived and developing li...
[ἘΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΗ͂Ι] ἘΝ ΕΥ̓ΧΑΡΙΣΤΊΑΙ. The reading is very uncertain, for though in itself ἐν αὐτῇ is more difficult yet its undoubted presence in Colossians 4:2 makes it possible that it was introduced thence...
6, 7. _Transition to direct warning against the false teachers_. Right reception of truth is well as far as it goes, but truth must be put into life (Colossians 2:6) Your faith is sound, therefore liv...
ΈΡΡΙΖΩΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ PIΖΌΩ (G4492) заставлять укореняться; _pass._ укореняться, закрепляться. Это слово также использовалось как метафора строительства, закладывание твердого и прочного...
DISCOURSE: 2175 THE CHARACTER OF CHRISTIANS Colossians 2:6. _As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye hav...
OUTLINE OF 2:6-23 D. CHRISTThe antidote for false doctrine; Colossians 2:6-23 1. Walk in Christ as you received him; Colossians 2:6-7 a. Rooted and builded up. b. Established in your faith. c...
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. (HAVING BEEN) ROOTED (Ephesians 3:17). BUILT UP, [ epoikodomoumenoi (G2026)]...
__ 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...
2:7 up (a-4) 'Rooted' is the perfect participle; it speaks of what had been done and continued. 'Built up' is the present, and is continuous. we might say 'being built up.' assured (b-8) Or 'confirmed...
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...
ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM. — There is a significant change of tense in the original, _having been rooted_ — _i.e._ (as in Ephesians 3:17), “rooted and grounded” in Him once for all, and _being built...
(1-7) In these verses St. Paul declares his deep anxiety for the Colossians and Laodiceans and others who had not seen his face, that they might seek, not the false, but the true knowledge, finding “t...
CHAPTER 2 CONCILIATORY AND HORTATORY TRANSITION TO POLEMICS Colossians 2:4 (R.V.) NOTHING needs more delicacy of hand and gentleness of heart than the administration of warning or reproof, especiall...
ἐρριζωμένοι καὶ ἐποικοδομούμενοι : “rooted and built up”. The metaphor changes from περιπατ., and again from ἐρριζ., though Lightfoot points out that the term “to root” is not infrequently applied to...
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...
ESTABLISHED IN THEIR FAITH Colossians 2:1 If you know Christ, you can lay your hand on the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. They are matters of daily experience. The Apostle's aim in this chapter i...
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 good news had been transmitted by God for man's benefit. Those who recognized Jesus Christ as Lord, by yielding to Him in obedience, received that transmission. Those who had so yielded to Christ'...
_Rooted and built up in him, who is the head of all, your Redeemer, and author of your salvation, not upon Angels. (Witham)_...
(4) And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. (5) For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastnes...
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...
_‘IN HIM’_ ‘As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught.’ Colossians 2:6 There is a wonde...
7._And confirmed in the faith. _He now repeats without a figure the same thing that he had expressed by metaphors, — that the prosecution of the way, the support of the root, and of the foundation, is...
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...
ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM,.... By these metaphors, the apostle expresses the safe and happy state of these believers; and which he makes use of as arguments, to engage them to walk on in Christ, and...
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Ver. 7. _Abounding therein with thanksgiving_] Thankfulness for smaller measures...
_As_, or _since, ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord_ Have acknowledged Jesus of Nazareth to be the true Messiah promised to the Jews, and consequently a divinely-commissioned Teacher, Mediator, Sa...
ROOTED AND BUILT; firmly established, like a tree deep rooted, or a house on a rock. A heart abounding in thanksgiving to God for his mercies, especially for Jesus Christ and life through him, is a gr...
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...
Call to Continuance - 2:6-7 6AS YOU THEREFORE HAVE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK IN HIM, ZA "receive means to take to one's side, to receive to one's self, admit, acknowledge" Vine "to rec...
ROOTED AND BUILDED UP IN HIM, AND ESTABLISHED IN YOUR FAITH, EVEN AS YE WERE TAUGHT, ABOUNDING IN THANKSGIVING. 'ROOTED' -...
1-7 The soul prospers when we have clear knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. When we not only believe with the heart, but are ready, when called, to make confession with the mouth. Knowledge an...
ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM; showing how they should abide and persevere in the faith, by continuing in him as branches do in the root, 1 THESSALONIANS 15:4, and resting upon him as a building upon the...
Colossians 2:7 rooted G4492 (G5772) and G2532 up G2026 (G5746) in G1722 Him G846 and G2532 established...
‘As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith (or ‘your faith'), even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.' Paul'...
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 2:7. ROOTED AND BUILT UP. This is to be closely joined with Colossians 2:6. as defining the command, ‘walk in Him.' The first participle points to taking root once for all and continuing ro...
ROOTED (ερριζωμενο). Perfect passive participle of old verb ριζοω from ριζα, root. In N.T. only here and Ephesians 3:17. Paul changes the figure from walk to growing tree.BUILDED UP IN HIM (εποικο...
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...
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 2:1. _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...
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...
KEEP YOUR ROOTS DEEP IN HIM. Your life grows out of him like a tree from the earth. Read what Jesus said about the "Real Vine" in John 15:1-17. AS YOU WERE TAUGHT. By Paul and his helpers....
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:6 YOU RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD. Paul reminds the Colossians of the foundational teaching of Epaphras when they first became Christians. At the heart of this is th...
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 2:7. ROOTED AND BUILT UP.—St. Paul passes over rapidly from one conception to another of quite a different kind. We cannot call it mixed metaphor. We commo...
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 15:58; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Peter 2:4; 1 Peter 5:10;...
Rooted - built up [ε ρ ρ ι ζ ω μ ε ν ο ι - ε π ο ι κ ο δ ο μ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι]. Note the change of metaphor from the solidity of military array to walking, rooting of a tree, and then to building. The me...
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...
Rooted in him — As the vine. Built — On the sure foundation....