Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Colossians 3:6
Verse 6. The wrath of God cometh] God is angry with such persons, and he inflicts on them the punishment which they deserve.
Verse 6. The wrath of God cometh] God is angry with such persons, and he inflicts on them the punishment which they deserve.
COLOSSIANS 3:6 @evpi. tou.j ui`ou.j th/j avpeiqei,aj# {C} It is exceedingly difficult to decide whether the words evpi. … avpeiqei,aj were added in most witnesses by copyists who recollected...
FOR WHICH THINGS’ SAKE ... - See the notes at Ephesians 5:6, where the same expression occurs....
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)...
FOR... SAKE. App-104.Colossians 3:2. WRATH. See Romans 1:19. ON. App-104. CHILDREN. App-108. See Ephesians 2:2....
_For which things" sake_, &c. See Ephesians 5:6 for an almost verbal parallel, only observing that the words "_on the children of disobedience_" should _perhaps_be omitted from the reading here; they...
6. At the end of the verse Text. Rec. adds ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς� (from Ephesians 5:6) with אAC(D), etc. “In D, however, they are written (though by the first hand) in smaller letters and extend beyond t...
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...
ΈΡΧΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить. _Fut. praes._ используется, чтобы подчеркнуть несомненность будущего события, ΌΡΓ (G3709) гнев, злоба. Это укоренившаяся неприязнь Бога...
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...
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: (Note, .)...
__ 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...
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. 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...
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...
Parallel to Ephesians 5:6, from which ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας has been added in most MSS. The sentence is abrupt without them, and Colossians 3:7 is more easily explained if they are retained (as...
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...
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...
For which things' sake the wrath of God (d) cometh on the children of disobedience: (d) Used to come....
_The children of unbelief are either those who perished in Noe's [Noah's] flood, for St. Peter in his epistle give them this title, or they are the inhabitants of Chanaan [Canaan], whom Josue [Joshua]...
(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...
6._On account of which things the wrath of God cometh_. I do not find fault with the rendering of Erasmus — _solet venire _ — (_is wont to come_,) but as the present tense is often taken in Scripture...
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 WHICH THINGS' SAKE,.... Those sins above mentioned, 1 Thessalonians 3:5: THE WRATH OF GOD; the effects of it in temporal judgments, and eternal ruin and destruction, the wrath to come, which all...
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: Ver. 6. _On the children of disobedience_] Unpersuadable, uncounsellable persons, that regard not good courses or disco...
_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...
FOR WHICH THINGS SAKE THE WRATH OF GOD COMETH ON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE;...
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...
FOR WHICH THINGS' SAKE COMETH THE WRATH OF GOD UPON THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE: 'FOR WHICH THINGS' SAKE' -'It is on account of these very sins' (Wey); 'These are what bring down God's vengeance' (Knox...
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...
Especially remembering how the indulging or sparing any of them will be of dreadful consequence; see EPHESIANS 5:6; for however they may by carnal men be looked upon as little faults, which God will o...
Colossians 3:6 Because G1223 things G3739 wrath G3709 God G2316 coming G2064 (G5736) upon G1909 sons G5207 disobe
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...
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...
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 3:6. FOR WHICH THINGS' SAKE; ‘on account of which sins;' THE WRATH OF GOD COMETH, etc. Comp. Ephesians 5:6. The clause: ON THE SONS (not, ‘children') OF DISOBEDIENCE is not found in the Vat...
COMETH THE WRATH OF GOD (ερχετα η οργη του θεου). Paul does not regard these sins of the flesh as matters of indifference, far otherwise. Many old MSS. do not have "upon the sons of disobedience,...
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._...
BECAUSE OF SUCH THINGS. In the past, God destroyed nations and cities for such sins. In the Judgment, God's wrath will come on those who do such things (Romans 1:18)....
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:6 THE WRATH OF GOD IS COMING. The OT prophets spoke of the approaching day of the Lord as a time of wrath (e.g., Zephaniah 1:14). God w
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 3:5 Instructions on Living the Christian Life. Christians have died and risen with Christ. They have the hope of a future life with him. Paul encourages the Colossians to...
_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 Peter 1:14; 2 Peter 2:14; Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 5:6
Wrath - cometh. Compare Romans 1:18. The present tense denotes the certainty of the future event, as Matthew 17:11; John 4:21. The best texts omit upon the children of disobedience....
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
For which — Though the heathens lightly regarded them....
Here our apostle backs his exhortation to mortify sin, with strong arguments and motives; the first is taken from the wrath of God, which, in its dismal effects, falls upon those who continue in, and...