For ye are dead — To the things on earth. And your real, spiritual life is hid from the world, and laid up in God, with Christ — Who hath merited, promised, prepared it for us, and gives us the earnest and foretaste of it in our hearts.
Verse Colossians 3:3. _FOR YE ARE DEAD_] To all hopes of happiness from the present world; and, according to your profession, should feel no more appetite for the things of this life, than he does who...
FOR YE ARE DEAD - Dead to the world; dead to sin; dead to earthly pleasures. On the meaning of the word “dead,” see the Romans 6:2 note; Ephesians 2:1 note. The idea of the apostle is, that as Christ...
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...
THE RISEN LIFE (Colossians 3:1-4)...
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...
ARE DEAD. died. LIFE. App-170. IS. has been. HID. i.e. laid up (in store). Compare Matthew 13:55. WITH. App-104. IN. App-104....
_For_ The heavenward, Christward, "affection" of the Christian is _reasonable_, when his spiritual relation to Christ is seen. _ye are dead_ Lit. and better, YE DIED; in Christ's death for and to sin...
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....
ἈΠΕΘΆΝΕΤΕ ΓΆΡ. To be taken up with things on earth is unreasonable, for dead men have no more to do with such things. For the tense cf. Colossians 2:12; Colossians 2:20, notes. ΚΑῚ Ἡ ΖΩῊ ὙΜΩ͂Ν. I.e. t...
ΆΠΕΘΆΝΕΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать, ΚΈΚΡΥΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΚΡΎΠΤΩ (G2928) прятать. Жизнь сокрыта в Боге, и это значит следующее: секретность, в которой жизнь верующего пи...
DISCOURSE: 2183 THE EXALTED STATE OF A CHRISTIAN Colossians 3:3. _Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him...
FOR YE ARE DEAD, &C.— "For ye are, by profession and obligation, and all true believers really are, by communion with Christ in his death, dead in your hearts and affections as to the Mosaic law, and...
3. FOR YE DIED, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. 4. WHEN CHRIST, _WHO IS_ OUR LIFE, SHALL BE MANIFESTED, THEN SHALL YE ALSO WITH HIM BE MANIFESTED IN GLORY. _Translation and Paraphrase_ 3. (I...
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Greek aorist) 'For ye died once for all,' in your Head, Christ (Romans 6:4; Romans 6:7; Romans 6:10), with whom ye are one by faith ...
__ 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...
FOR YE ARE DEAD] RV 'Ye died,' i.e. at conversion. 5-16. The moral life of the Christian. PARAPHRASE. '(5, 6) Since you died and rose with Christ and your life is hidden with Him in God, realise thes...
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...
YE ARE DEAD. — Properly, _ye died._ See Colossians 2:20, and Note there. The phrase here is to be taken in its whole sense, both of “death to sin” and “death to the visible world.” YOUR LIFE IS HID WI...
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...
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...
ἀπεθάνετε γάρ : “for ye died,” that is to their old life, at the time of their conversion. It gives the reason for Colossians 3:2. The exhortation is justified because they have died with Christ. καὶ...
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...
(4) For ye are dead, (5) and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) A reason taken of the efficient causes and others: you are dead with regard to the flesh, that is, with regard to the old nature w...
(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...
_HIDDEN LIFE_ ‘Your life is hid with Christ in God.’ Colossians 3:3 Spiritual union between the believer and his Lord is a truth abundantly set forth in the Word of God, and eminently suggestive of...
3._For ye are dead. _No one can rise again with Christ, if he has not first died with him. Hence he draws an argument from _rising again _to _dying_, as from a consequent to an antecedent, (434) meani...
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...
FOR YE ARE DEAD,.... Not in a natural or corporeal sense, for they were living in the world; nor in a moral sense, for though they had been dead in sins, they were quickened by the grace of God; nor i...
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Ver. 3. _For ye are dead_] Crucified to the world, as Paul,Galatians 6:14, weaned as a child from the breasts, or rather botches of the world...
_For ye are dead_ As to sin, so to the world and all earthly things, and that both by profession as Christians, and by an indispensable obligation laid upon you by Him whose laws you have engaged to o...
DEAD; dead to your former life of sin. YOUR LIFE; your new life to which you have risen in Christ through faith. This life comprehends both the present spiritual life of the soul and the glorious resu...
THE AFFECTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS SET ON THINGS ABOVE....
FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD....
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...
FOR YE DIED, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. 'FOR' -Again emphasizing the reason for this new mental perspective. 'YE DIED' -Colossians 3:1 'YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST' - _ Points to N...
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;...
FOR YE ARE DEAD; the apostle adds another reason why the believing Colossians should not be earthly-minded, because they were dead, not absolutely, but in a certain respect, viz. of sin, and the world...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V , and made the clause run thus: ("what is the fellowship of the mystery) which hath for ages been hidden from the God who created all things."[812] Origen de Princi...
Colossians 3:3 For G1063 died G599 (G5627) and G2532 your G5216 life G2222 hidden G2928 (G5769) with...
‘Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth, for you died and your life is hid with Christ in God.' The tenses here are important. ‘Go on setting your mind co...
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...
FOR YE DIED (απεθανετε γαρ). Definite event, aorist active indicative, died to sin (Romans 6:2).IS HID (κεκρυπτα). Perfect passive indicative of κρυπτω, old verb, to hide, remains concealed, lock...
Colossians 3:3 The Hidden Life. If we are true Christians, we have passed through a death of some kind, and our life, if we have one, is a hidden life, a life not seen by men, a life safe in the com...
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,_ 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. 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._ 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._...
YOUR LIFE IS HIDDEN. People hide money and jewels to keep them safe. The Christian's life is safe with God, and will be given to them in the Resurrection....
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:3 YOUR LIFE IS HIDDEN WITH CHRIST IN GOD. Paul uses Isaiah and the Psalms to express the security of believers as they trust in Christ (Isaiah 49
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 3:3. YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD.—You are much more likely to have it kept pure by having it in Christ than by setting round it a hedge of “Thou sh...
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 15:45; 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:3;...
Ye are dead [α π ε θ α ν ε τ ε]. Rev., correctly, ye died, as ch. 2 20. Is hid [κ ε κ ρ υ π τ α ι]. Your new spiritual life is no longer in the sphere of the earthly and sensual, but is with the life...
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
Here we have. fresh argument to enforce the foregoing exhortation, Seek the things above, FOR YE ARE DEAD, that is, dead to sin, dead to the world, therefore be not over eager in the pursuit of the th...