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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.
If ye, then, be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
CHAPTER III. _The apostle exhorts the Colossians to heavenly-mindedness after_ _the example of Christ, that they may be prepared to appear with_ _him in glory_, 1-4. _Exhorts them also to mortify...
IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST - The apostle in this place evidently founds the argument on what he had said in Colossians 2:12; see the notes at that passage. The argument is, that there was such an...
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. Mani...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE RISEN WITH CHRIST. Those who are risen with Christ must aspire to the things above, in the region of Christ's heavenly session at God's right hand. Their minds must be set, not on...
If then you were raised with Christ, set your hearts on the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Have a mind all of whose thoughts are fixed on the things which are...
THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...
IF App-118. BE RISEN WITH. score raised with. App-178. CHRIST. App-98. THINGS... ABOVE. See Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:13; Philippians 1:14. ON. App-104....
Colossians 3:1-4.The subject continued; life in union with the Risen One 1. _If_ The "_if_" not of conjecture but of assumption, as in Colossians 2:20. He takes them all for granted, as really united...
ΕἸ, no more suggesting doubt than in Colossians 2:20. It “introduces the first member of a conditional syllogism; cf. Romans 5:15” (Ell.). ΟΥ̓͂Ν. With special reference to Colossians 2:20-23 which inc...
20–3:4. _Transition to the detailed practical directions of the Epistle_ (Colossians 3:5 to Colossians 4:6). St Paul, first negatively (Colossians 2:20-23), and secondly positively (c....
ΣΥΝΗΓΈΡΘΗΤΕ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΥΝΕΓΕΊΡΩ (G4891) подниматься вместе; _pass._ быть воскрешенным вместе. Ind. используется в _conj._, которое предполагает реальность условия: "если затем (предположим)...
DISCOURSE: 2181 OUR RESURRECTION WITH CHRIST A MOTIVE TO HEAVENLY-MINDEDNESS Colossians 3:1. _If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right han...
IF YE THEN BE RISEN, &C.— The Apostle here proceeds, upon the principles that he had laid down, to graft a most important practical exhortation on what he had said; than which nothing could more effec...
OUTLINE OF 3:1-4:6 E. CHRISTThe basis of a new life; Colossians 3:1-25; Colossians 4:1-6 Duties of those raised with Christ: 1. Be dedicated to things above; Colossians 3:1-4
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. IF (SEEING THAT) YE THEN. In ; he condemned the "fleshly mind:" in contrast he now...
__ Doctrinal Correction 15 Not only is the believer exempt from the authority of the apostles of the Circumcision, but, in spirit, he is beyond the reach of all human jurisdiction. Even before His r...
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 hav...
III. (1-4) As the partaking of the death of Christ taught the negative lesson of death to the Law, so the partaking of His resurrection teaches the positive lesson of the spiritual life. We observe th...
IF YE THEN BE RISEN (rather, _ye rose_) WITH CHRIST. — In these words is marked the beginning of the spiritual life, referred evidently to baptism. (See Colossians 2:12.) It is a “resurrection with Ch...
CHAPTER 3 THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN LIFE A RISEN LIFE Colossians 3:1 (R.V.) We have now done with controversy. We hear no more about heretical teachers. The Apostle has cut his way through the tangled t...
εἰ οὖν συνηγέρθητε τῷ Χριστῷ : “if then [as is the case] you were raised together with Christ”. It is not their resurrection when Christ rose of which he speaks, but their personal resurrection with H...
RESURRECTION WITH CHRIST MUST BE COMPLETED BY PARTICIPATION IN HIS HEAVENLY LIFE, WHICH THOUGH AT PRESENT CONCEALED, WILL NOT ALWAYS REMAIN SO. THIS LIFE WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN DEMANDS THE DEATH OF THE...
SEEKING THE “THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE” Colossians 3:1 Let us repeat the glorious truth, which was doubtless the heart of Paul's teaching, that our old nature has been nailed in Christ to the Cross, and...
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...
Setting One's Mind Above Christians have died with Christ in baptism and been risen with Him to walk in a new life (Colossians 2:12; Colossians 2:20; Romans 6:3-4). Because the Christian has risen wit...
If (1) ye then (2) be (a) risen with Christ, (3) seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (1) Another part of this epistle, in which he takes occasion by reaso...
Here begins the second or the moral part of this epistle. --- _If you be risen, &c. The remaining part of this epistle has no great difficulties, but excellent instructions, as that to the Ephesians....
CONTENTS This Chapter opens with very glorious and precious Views of the Church's Safety in Christ. And it is closed with suitable Exhortations arising therefrom....
(1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (3) For ye ar...
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...
_RISEN LIFE_ ‘If ye then he risen with Christ.’ Colossians 3:1 Do not let Easter-time pass without the rolling away of some stone, the unloosing of some bar, the standing out into some light, the d...
_‘RISEN WITH CHRIST’_ ‘If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.’ Colossians 3:1 The resurrection of Christ stands not alone...
To those fruitless exercises which the false apostles urged, (429) as though perfection consisted in them, he opposes those true exercises in which it becomes Christians to employ themselves; and this...
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...
IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST,.... The apostle having observed in the former chapter, that the believing Colossians were dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, were buried with him in bap...
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Ver. 1. _If ye then be risen with Christ_] As ye profess to be,Colossians 2:12 . _...
_If ye then be risen with Christ_ From spiritual death to spiritual life, as spoken of Colossians 2:12. See also notes on Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 2:6. If ye be not only engaged to become new creature...
RISEN; after the example of Christ and in union with him, from your death in sin to a new divine life. See chap Colossians 2:12; ROMANS 6:3-11; Ephesians 2:1-6....
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...
New Aims for New Men - 3:1-4 1IF THEN YOU WERE RAISED WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST IS, SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. In Colossians 2:20 Paul argued that we were de...
IF THEN YE WERE RAISED TOGETHER WITH CHRIST, SEEK THE THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST IS, SEATED ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. 'IF THEN' -The 'if' doesn't express any doubt (Colossians 2:20). Rather...
1-4 As Christians are freed from the ceremonial law, they must walk the more closely with God in gospel obedience. As heaven and earth are contrary one to the other, both cannot be followed together;...
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3 COLOSSIANS 3:1 The apostle exhorteth to be heavenly-minded, COLOSSIANS 3:5 to mortify carnal lusts, and to put away all malice and ill dealing in respect of one another, as become...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh he says: "Since ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your affection on things ab...
Colossians 3:1 If G1487 then G3767 raised G4891 (G5681) Christ G5547 seek G2212 (G5720) above G507 where...
‘If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated on the right hand of God.' The Christian's concentration is to be on heavenly things (‘go on seeki...
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....
1. _Fellowship with the Exalted Christ the Motive for the New Life._ This section is closely joined in thought with what precedes; hence some regard it as the conclusion of the polemical portion of th...
Colossians 3:1. If, as in chap. Colossians 2:20, sets forth a fact, since then deduces an inference. The same fact has been presented in chap. Colossians 2:12. WERE RAISED TOGETHER; the passive impli...
IF THEN YE WERE RAISED TOGETHER WITH CHRIST (ε ουν συνηγερθητε τω Χριστω). Condition of the first class, assumed as true, like that in Colossians 2:20 and the other half of the picture of baptism in...
Colossians 3:1 I. "Seek things that be above." This is the business first of all of a man's understanding, of the understanding of a Christian who is risen with Christ. Seek those things that be above...
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...
Colossians 3:1 _If ye then be risen with Christ,_ Leave all these outward rituals, and formalities, and ordinances of men, Colossians 3:1. Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on...
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._ Your Lord and Master has gone up to heaven. You profess that he re...
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 grove...
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 b...
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._...
YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED TO LIFE WITH CHRIST. The result of a definite act (Colossians 2:12). In their baptism they were "buried with Christ," and "raised with Christ." SET YOUR HEARTS. The Christian is a...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:1 The Proper Focus: Christ and the Life Above. This section is a bridge to Paul’s appeals to live in a way that pleases the Lord....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 3:1. SEEK THOSE THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE.—Our Lord says that as He was “from above,” so His disbelieving hearers were “from beneath,” which He interprets as “o...
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 Peter 3:22; 2 Corinthians 4:18; Acts 2:34; Acts 7:55; Colossians 2:1
Be risen [σ υ ν η γ ε ρ θ η τ ε]. Rev., correctly, were raised. See ch. Colossians 2:12. In their baptism in which they died (ch. 2 20). Compare Romans 6:2 sqq. Sitteth [ε σ τ ι ν κ α θ η μ ε ν ο ς]....
THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS Colossians 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Seven pairs of things: 1. Things above, and things on the earth (Colossians 3:2). 2. Things seen, and things not seen (2 Cori
If ye are risen, seek the things above — As Christ being risen, immediately went to heaven....
Observe here, 1. The nature of the duty to which we are exhorted; this is expressed both affirmatively and negatively; affirmatively, Seek the things above, and set your affections on them; negatively...