Since you have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord. Accepted him as the visible likeness of the invisible God, the creator of all things, the head [teacher and ruler] of the church which is his body; and have been saved by his death and his mediation. Live in union with him. Don't abandon him for angels or the Law.
Verse 6. _AS YE HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS_] Many persons lay a certain stress on the words _as_ and _so_, and make various fine heads of discourses from them; viz. _As_ ye received Christ...
AS YE HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD - Have received him by faith as your Saviour, or as you were instructed respecting his rank, character, and work. The object here is to induce them...
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...
CHRIST JESUS. App-08. LORD. App-98. For this full title see Romans 6:23....
_As ye have therefore_&c. As if to say, "I see with joy your present stedfast faith and consequent holy union; therefore I entreat you at once to stay there and to grow there, for you will be tempted...
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...
ὩΣ. Cf. 2 Corinthians 7:14, where however οὕτως follows. ΟΥ̓͂Ν. The immediate reference is to the latter part of Colossians 2:5, but the next verse shows that St Paul is going back in thought as far a...
ΠΑΡΕΛΆΒΕΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G3880) принимать, получать, получать учение; эквивалент раввинистического термина, относящегося к передаче и получению традиции (Johnson, 305f; Lohse; TDNT)...
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...
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 'As therefore ye received (once for all: : aorist, from Epaphras) Jesus the Christ as your Lord (cf. ; ;...
__ 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...
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...
(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...
AS YE HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED. — Comp. the more emphatic language of Colossians 1:5; Colossians 1:23. As in the case of the Corinthians and Galatians (2 Corinthians 11:4 and...
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...
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...
ὧς οὖν παρελάβετε. Oltramare translates “since,” and interprets, “since ye have received Christ … it is in Him you must walk”. But probably the usual interpretation “as” is right, meaning the form in...
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'...
As ye have therefore (h) received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk ye in him: (h) So then Christ does not depend upon men's traditions....
(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...
6._As ye have received. _To commendation he adds exhortation, in which he teaches them that their having once received Christ will be of no advantage to them, unless they remain in him. Farther, as th...
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...
AS YE HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD,.... Receiving Christ is believing in him: faith is the eye of the soul, that sees the beauty, glory, fulness, and suitableness of Christ; the foot...
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, _so_ walk ye in him: Ver. 6. _So walk ye in him_] Continue well affected, as ye were at your first conversion; fall not from your own stedfastness...
_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...
CHRIST JESUS THE LORD; emphatically, Christ Jesus as your supreme Lord and Saviour, and no yoke of carnal ordinances. WALK YE IN HIM; continue in the belief and practice of those truths which you rec...
The apostle now builds up his admonition on this tactful premise:...
AS YE HAVE, THEREFORE, RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK YE IN HIM;...
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...
AS THEREFORE YE RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK IN HIM, 'AS' -'live in accordance with what you received' (Gr. Ex. N.T. p. 521). 'So just as' (Gspd) 'RECEIVED' -3880. paralambano par-al-am-...
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...
Having cautioned them against sophistical seducers, and commended them for that order and sound faith he understood to be amongst them, he here infers an exhortation to continuance in both, especially...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith."[129] Clement of Alexandria Stromat...
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‘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'...
Colossians 2:6. AS THEN (in view of this order and stedfastness) YE RECEIVED, _i.e.,_ by instruction from your teachers, not, ‘as ye accepted.' CHRIST ETUI THE LORD. HE was the object in which the in...
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...
AS THEREFORE YE RECEIVED (ως ουν παρελαβετε). Second aorist active indicative of παραλαμβανω in same sense as in 1 Thessalonians 4:1; Philippians 4:9 (both μανθανω and παραλαμβανω) that is like μανθ...
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 2:1. _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...
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...
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...
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 1:30; 1 John 2:6; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:12; 1 John 5:20;
Ye received [π α ρ ε λ α β ε τ ε]. By transmission from [π α ρ α] your teachers. Christ Jesus the Lord [τ ο ν χ ρ ι σ τ ο ν ι η σ ο υ ν τ ο ν κ υ ρ ι ο ν]. The Christ, specially defined by the follow...
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...
So walk in him — In the same faith, love, holiness....
This is, "As you have received the doctrine of Christ Jesus, the Lord, by the preaching of Epaphras, and therein have embraced Christ by faith, so do you constantly adhere to that doctrine, conforming...