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Text -- Colossians 3:1-14 (NET)

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Exhortations to Seek the Things Above
3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 3:2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, 3:3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 3:4 When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him. 3:5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry. 3:6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. 3:7 You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them. 3:8 But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth. 3:9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices 3:10 and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it. 3:11 Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.
Exhortation to Unity and Love
3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, 3:13 bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others. 3:14 And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Greek the language used by the people of Greece
 · Jews the people descended from Israel
 · Scythian an inhabitant of Scythia


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Colossians, Epistle to the | Holiness | Righteousness | Ephesians, Epistle to | Commandments | JUDE, THE EPISTLE OF | Jesus, The Christ | SANCTIFICATION | GOOD, CHIEF | Anger | Inclusiveness | One Another | CHRIST, OFFICES OF | Salvation | Meekness | Regeneration | Love | MEDIATION; MEDIATOR | Longsuffering | ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, VI-X | more
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NET Notes: Col 3:4 Certain mss (B[*] D1 H 0278 1739 Ï sy sa) read ἡμῶν (Jhmwn, “our”), while others (Ì46 א C D* F G P &...

NET Notes: Col 3:5 Or “lust.”

NET Notes: Col 3:6 The expression sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” In this context it refers to ...

NET Notes: Col 3:7 Grk “you also walked.” The verb περιπατέω (peripatew) is commonly used in the NT to refer to ...

NET Notes: Col 3:8 The Greek article with τὰ πάντα (ta panta) is anaphoric, referring to the previous list of vices, and has been tra...

NET Notes: Col 3:10 Put off all such things. The commands in vv. 8-9 are based on two reasons given in vv. 9-10 – reasons which are expressed in terms of a metaphor...

NET Notes: Col 3:11 See the note on “fellow slave” in 1:7.

NET Notes: Col 3:12 If the genitive construct σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμοῦ (splancna oiktirmo...

NET Notes: Col 3:13 The expression “forgive others” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. It is included in the translation to make the sentence complete ...

NET Notes: Col 3:14 The genitive τῆς τελειότητος (th" teleiothto") has been translated as...

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