John Trapp Complete Commentary
Colossians 3:7
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Ver. 7. When ye lived in them] Man's life is a walk, and each action a step either to heaven or hell.
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Ver. 7. When ye lived in them] Man's life is a walk, and each action a step either to heaven or hell.
Verse 7. _IN THE WHICH YE ALSO WALKED SOMETIME_] When ye were in your unconverted state, ye served divers lusts and pleasures. Romans 7:5, Romans 7:5, and _"_Ephesians 2:2_"_....
IN THE WHICH - In all which evil passions. YE ALSO WALKED SOMETIME - You formerly lived. These were the common vices of the pagan; Ephesians 5:8, note; 1 Corinthians 6:10, notes; compare...
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...
a So, then, put to death these parts of you which are earthly-- fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, the desire to get more than you ought--for this is idol worship; and because of these th...
THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...
LIVED. See App-170....
_In the which_ "_things_," mentioned just above. Otherwise we may render, "_among whom_" (R. V. margin); i.e. among "the children of disobedience." If those words are not retained in the text, this la...
5–17. _The individual life_ Colossians 3:5-11. Negatively (together with a general description of the new life), for sins are inconsistent with the new self. Colossians 3:12-17. Positively, especial...
5–4:1. _Practical duties_ Colossians 3:5-17, in the individual life; Colossians 3:18_ to_ Colossians 4:1, in the social relations of a household....
ἘΝ ΟἿΣ. Certainly neuter with the short form of Colossians 3:6, and almost certainly neuter even with the long form, for “περιπατεῖν ἐν is most commonly used of things, not of persons, especially in t...
ΠΕΡΙΕΠΑΤΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΈΩ (G4043) ходить, вести образ жизни. Гл. используется с предлогом, обозначая "принимать участие в чем-л." (BAGD). Констативный _aor._ подводит итоги всей прош...
IN THE WHICH YE ALSO WALKED— _Amongst whom ye also once walked,_ [partaking in all their enormities,] _when ye lived among them._ Doddridge. Mr. Peirce paraphrases the verse as follows: "Among which c...
7. WHEREIN YE ALSO ONCE WALKED, WHEN YE LIVED IN THESE THINGS; 8. BUT NOW DO YE ALSO PUT THEM ALL AWAY: ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, RAILING, SHAMEFUL SPEAKING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH: _Translation and Paraphrase...
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. WALKED SOMETIME - `once.' WHEN YE LIVED IN THEM - as in your very element (before ye became once for all dead with Christ to them): no...
__ 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...
3:7 which (c-2) Or 'among whom.'...
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...
[5. Practical Exhortation, General. (1) NEGATIVE. — To MORTIFY THE OLD MAN, by fleeing from — (_a_) _Uncleanness and lust_ (Colossians 3:5); (_b_) _Wrath and malice_ (Colossians 3:8); (_c_) _Fa...
IN THE WHICH YE ALSO WALKED SOME TIME, WHEN YE LIVED (_were living_) IN THEM. — The former condition of heathenism was that in which “they were living,” with contagion of evil on every side. But St. P...
Colossians 3:5 contain the negative section of St. Paul’s practical appeal, drawing out the consequences of the “death with Christ,” in the mortification of all tendencies to impurity, malice, and fal...
CHAPTER 3 SLAYING SELF THE FOUNDATION PRECEPT OF PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Colossians 3:5 (R.V.) "Mortify therefore"-wherefore? The previous words give the reason. Because "ye died" with Christ, and be...
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...
ἐν οἶς : in which vices. If τ. υἱοὺς τ. ἀπ. be retained, the probable translation is “in whom”. Lightfoot thinks in any case the reference to the vices is to be preferred, the chief reason being that...
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...
Changing Clothes Since the Colossian brethren were dead to the world in Christ, Paul said they should put sin out of their lives. Anger and wrath both describe passions aroused when one is insulted or...
(5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: (6) For which things' sake the wra...
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...
7._In which ye walked. _Erasmus mistakingly refers this to men, rendering it, “_inter quos _,” (“among _whom_, ”) for there can be no doubt that Paul had in view the vices, in which he, says that the...
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...
IN THE WHICH YE ALSO WALKED SOME TIME,.... Either in or among the children of disobedience, 1 Thessalonians 3:6, or rather in the afore mentioned sins, 1 Thessalonians 3:5. Sin is a road or path, in w...
_Mortify therefore_ Put to death, slay with a continued stroke; _your members_ The members of the old man, which together make up the body of sin; inclinations and dispositions which spread themselves...
IN THE WHICH YE ALSO WALKED SOME TIME WHEN YE LIVED IN THEM....
PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN AND PUTTING ON THE NEW....
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...
Mortifying the Old Nature - 3:5-11 5THEREFORE PUT TO DEATH YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE ON THE EARTH: FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, PASSION, EVIL DESIRE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY. When you see the...
WHEREIN YE ALSO ONCE WALKED, WHEN YE LIVED IN THESE THINGS; 'WHEREIN' -i.e. in such sins. 'YE' -Members of this congregation. _ Points to Note:_ 1. God placed. high ethical demand upon people who...
5-11 It is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin which spread and destroy all about them. Continual oppo...
IN THE WHICH; some render it, amongst whom; but, alas! They lived amongst such disobedient ones still; therefore we do better render it _in which, _ i.e. sins or vices. YE, the now believing Colossian...
Colossians 3:7 in G1722 which G3739 you G5210 once G4218 G2532 walked G4043 (G5656) when G3753 lived...
‘In the which you also walked previously, when you lived in these things.' These sins and attitudes had once been theirs, as they had also been of the Jews (Mark 7:20). This was how they had once live...
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....
2. _General Exhortations_. We find here, though in much briefer form, substantially the same exhortations contained in Ephesians 4:17 to Ephesians 5:21. The section may be thus divided: (1.) Negative...
Colossians 3:7. AMONG WHOM, or, ‘in which.' The former rendering is preferable, if the longer reading be retained in Colossians 3:6: among these sons of disobedience. Comp. Ephesians 2:2-3, where simi...
WALKED AFORETIME (περιεπατησατε ποτε). First aorist (constative) indicative referring to their previous pagan state.WHEN YE LIVED (οτε εζητε). Imperfect active indicative of ζαω, to live, "ye use...
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...
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, 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...
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._...
AND YOU YOURSELVES AT ONE TIME. This was the way they used to live before they knew Christ. See 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. The whole Gentile world was living this way (see 1 Peter 4:3-5)....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 3:5. MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH.—“Quite so!” the heretic teacher might say; “this is just what we ourselves advise.” “Yes,” rej...
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 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Peter 4:4; Colossians 2:13;...
In the which [ε ν ο ι ς]. The omission of upon the children, etc., necessitates the reference to which things (ver. 6) Otherwise we might render among whom. Walked - lived. Walked, referring to their...
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
Living denotes the inward principle; walking, the outward acts....