Colossians 3:1-4
THE AFFECTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS SET ON THINGS ABOVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE AFFECTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS SET ON THINGS ABOVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE, THEN, BE RISEN WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
SET YOUR AFFECTION ON THINGS ABOVE, NOT ON THINGS ON THE EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL APPEAR, THEN SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY. As the Bible-student will note, the similarity between Colossians and Ephesians is everywhere apparent, but nowhere more pronounced than in this chapter. The apostle here holds out before the Christians the high... [ Continue Reading ]
MORTIFY, THEREFORE, YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH: FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, INORDINATE AFFECTION, EVIL CONCUPISCENCE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY;... [ Continue Reading ]
PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN AND PUTTING ON THE NEW.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHICH THINGS SAKE THE WRATH OF GOD COMETH ON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE WHICH YE ALSO WALKED SOME TIME WHEN YE LIVED IN THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW YE ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE: ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, BLASPHEMY, FILTHY COMMUNICATION OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIE NOT ONE TO ANOTHER, SEEING THAT YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE THERE IS NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW, CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION, BARBARIAN, SCYTHIAN, BOND NOR FREE; BUT CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL. The apostle here shows how the life of the believers in and with Christ should be manifested: Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth: fornicat... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RULE OF GOD'S PEACE AND ITS EFFECT ON VARIOUS STATIONS IN LIFE. The Christians' conduct toward one another... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT ON, THEREFORE, AS THE ELECT OF GOD, HOLY AND BELOVED, BOWELS OF MERCIES, KINDNESS, HUMBLENESS OF MIND, MEEKNESS, LONGSUFFERING,... [ Continue Reading ]
FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER, AND FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, IF ANY MAN HAVE A QUARREL AGAINST ANY; EVEN AS CHRIST FORGAVE YOU, SO ALSO DO YE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABOVE ALL THESE THINGS, PUT ON CHARITY, WHICH IS THE BOND OF PERFECTNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN YOUR HEARTS, TO THE WHICH ALSO YE ARE CALLED IN ONE BODY; AND BE YE THANKFUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU RICHLY IN ALL WISDOM, TEACHING AND ADMONISHING ONE ANOTHER IN PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, SINGING WITH RACE IN YOUR HEARTS TO THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM. The Christians being united in fellowship in Christ, it behooves them to lead a life in conformity with the intimacy and sacredness of that bond, to express in their whole lives an... [ Continue Reading ]
WIVES, SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS, AS IT IS FIT IN THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conduct of Christians in various stations in life:... [ Continue Reading ]
HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, AND BE NOT BITTER AGAINST THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN, OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN ALL THINGS; FOR THIS IS WELL-PLEASING UNTO THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN TO ANGER, LEST THEY BE DISCOURAGED.... [ Continue Reading ]
SERVANTS, OBEY IN ALL THINGS YOUR MASTERS ACCORDING TO THE FLESH; NOT WITH EYE-SERVICE, AS MEN-PLEASERS, BUT IN SINGLENESS OF HEART, FEARING GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO IT HEARTILY, AS TO THE LORD, AND NOT UNTO MEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWING THAT OF THE LORD YE SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF THE INHERITANCE; FOR YE SERVE THE LORD CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE THAT DOETH WRONG SHALL RECEIVE FOR THE WRONG WHICH HE HATH DONE; AND THERE IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS. See Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1. In giving specific instructions to individual classes of Christians the apostle addresses himself first to the wives: Wives, be subject to your husbands, as... [ Continue Reading ]