Verse 5. _MORTIFY, THEREFORE, YOU MEMBERS_] νεκρωσατε. _Put them_ _to death_: the verb is used metaphorically to signify, to _deprive a_ _thing of its power_, to _destroy its strength_. Use no member...
MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS - Since you are dead to sin and the world, and are to appear with Christ in the glories of his kingdom, subdue every carnal and evil propensity of your nature. The word...
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)...
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...
MORTIFY. Put to death. See Romans 4:19; Romans 6:6. UPON. App-104. INORDINATE AFFECTION. passion, or lust. See Romans 1:26. EVIL. App-128. CONCUPISCENCE. desire, See...
Universal Holiness the necessary issue of the life of Union: the negative side 5. _Mortify therefore_ Observe the "_therefore_." _Because of_the possession of a hidden _life_, and in its power, they...
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....
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...
ΝΕΚΡΏΣΑΤΕ ΟΥ̓͂Ν. St Paul here begins the directly “practical” part of his Epistle, but characteristically (cf. Romans 12:1; Ephesians 4:1) joins it to the more doctrinal part by a “therefore.” Life is...
ΝΕΚΡΏΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΝΕΚΡΌΩ (G3499) приговаривать к смерти. Значение здесь сопоставимо с Romans 6:11, содержит идею "считать мертвым" (Bruce), ΜΈΛΗ _pl. от_ ΜΈΛΟΣ (G3196) член. Члены тела...
_Colossians 3:5_. St. Paul, having concluded the principal design of his writing, comes now, according to his usual manner, to give the Colossians some rules and directions for their Christian behavio...
5. PUT TO DEATH THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH: FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, PASSION, EVIL DESIRE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY; 6. FOR WHICH THINGS-' SAKE COMETH THE WRATH OF GOD...
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: MORTIFY, [ nekroosate (G3499)] - '...
__ 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...
3:5 death (a-3) The aorist. 'be in the state of having done it.' desire, (b-20) Or 'covetousness;' as Ephesians 4:19 ('greedy unsatisfied lust'), and Ephesians 5:5 ('unbridled lust')....
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...
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...
(5) MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH. — The expression is doubly unique. It is the only passage where “mortification” — the killing of anything in us — is enjoined; and it is al...
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...
Partially parallel to Ephesians 5:3-5. νεκρώσατε οὖν. “Put to death, therefore” (_cf._ Romans 8:13). The aorist implies a single decisive act. Perhaps νεκ. is chosen as a weaker word than θανατόω (Cre...
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...
Putting to Death Earthly Thinking Having shown how the Christian is alive, Paul next turned to show what each member of His body must put to death, or mortify. Thomas suggest mortify means "to dig out...
(6) Mortify therefore your (c) members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: (6) Let not your dead nature b...
_Your members,...fornication, uncleanness, &c. He considers man's body as made up of sins and sinful inclinations. (Witham) --- It is not to bring back Judaism we practise abstinences and fasts, nor w...
(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...
5._Mortify therefore_. Hitherto he has been speaking of contempt of the world. He now proceeds further, and enters upon a higher philosophy, as to the _mortification of the flesh_. That this may be th...
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...
MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS,.... Not your bodies, as the Ethiopic version reads, nor the members of the natural body, but of the body of sin, indwelling sin; which as a body consists of various mem...
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Ver. 5. _Mortify therefore_] Sin hath...
_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...
MORTIFY THEREFORE; since ye are dead with Christ, act consistently in putting to death YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH; your bodily members as the instruments of earthly lust; in other words, th...
PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN AND PUTTING ON THE NEW....
MORTIFY, THEREFORE, YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH: FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, INORDINATE AFFECTION, EVIL CONCUPISCENCE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY;...
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...
PUT TO DEATH THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH: FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, PASSION, EVIL DESIRE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY; 'PUT TO DEATH' -'to treat as dead' (Robertson p. 50...
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...
That they might not think he, who had given check to superstitious abstinences, was for the indulging of any carnal affections, he infers here, how the exercise of truly Christian mortification was in...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V " And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry."[88] Clement of Al...
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OUR CHRISTIAN WALK IS TO REFLECT OUR GLORIOUS PRIVILEGE (COLOSSIANS 3:5 TO COLOSSIANS 4:6). 1). The Man That We Were Has To Die (Colossians 3:5) ‘Therefore put to death your members which are on the...
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....
Colossians 3:5. PUT TO DEATH. The term is stronger than that usually thus rendered; but ‘mortify' is misleading, and ‘make dead' is awkward. Kill once for all, is the thought of the original, and the...
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...
MORTIFY (νεκρωσατε). First aorist active imperative of νεκροω, late verb, to put to death, to treat as dead. Latin Vulgate _mortifico_, but "mortify" is coming with us to mean putrify. Paul boldly a...
Colossians 3:5 However startling this phraseology may appear at first, it is perfectly easy to point out, by instancing a few particulars in analysis, the plain reason for such an application of term...
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._...
YOU MUST PUT TO DEATH. Those vicious appetites and passions that are common to humanity. IMMORALITY. Any sex act with another person - _other than_ between husband and wife. See Romans 1:26-27. INDECE...
_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 10:6; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 5:11;...
Mortify [ν ε κ ρ ω σ α τ ε]. Only here, Romans 4:19; Hebrews 11:12. Mortify is used in its literal sense of put to death. So Erasmus : "Christ was mortified and killed." And Shakespeare : "- his wil...
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
Mortify therefore — Put to death, slay with a continued stroke. Your members — Which together make up the body of sin. Which are upon the earth — Where they find their nourishment. Uncleanness — In ac...
Note here, 1. That although the apostle told them in the third verse, that they were dead to sin, yet here, in the fifth verse, he bids them mortify sin; intimating, that the work of mortification, at...