Colossians 3:13

3:13 bearing with one another and forgiving ¹  one another, if someone happens to have ²  a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others. ³ 

Colossians 3:9

3:9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

Colossians 1:8

1:8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

Colossians 3:8

3:8 But now, put off all such things ⁴  as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

Colossians 3:5

3:5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: ⁵  sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, ⁶  evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

Colossians 1:10

1:10 so that you may live ⁷  worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects ⁸  – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 2:1

2:1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, ⁹  and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face. ¹⁰ 

Colossians 3:16

3:16 Let the word of Christ ¹¹  dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace ¹²  in your hearts to God.

Colossians 4:11

4:11 And Jesus who is called Justus also sends greetings. In terms of Jewish converts, ¹³  these are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

[3:13]  ¹ tn For the translation of χαριζόμενοι (carizomenoi) as “forgiving,” see BDAG 1078 s.v. χαρίζομαι 3. The two participles “bearing” (ἀνεχόμενοι, anecomenoi) and “forgiving” (χαριζόμενοι) express the means by which the action of the finite verb “clothe yourselves” is to be carried out.

[3:13]  ² tn Grk “if someone has”; the term “happens,” though not in the Greek text, is inserted to bring out the force of the third class condition.

[3:13]  ³ tn The expression “forgive others” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. It is included in the translation to make the sentence complete and more comprehensible to the English reader.

[3:8]  ⁴ tn The Greek article with τὰ πάντα (ta panta) is anaphoric, referring to the previous list of vices, and has been translated here as “all such things.”

[3:5]  ⁷ tn Grk “the members which are on the earth.” See BDAG 628 s.v. μέλος 1, “put to death whatever in you is worldly.”

[3:5]  ⁸ tn Or “lust.”

[1:10]  ¹⁰ tn The infinitive περιπατῆσαι (peripathsai, “to walk, to live, to live one’s life”) is best taken as an infinitive of purpose related to “praying” (προσευχόμενοι, proseucomenoi) and “asking” (αἰτούμενοι, aitoumenoi) in v. 9 and is thus translated as “that you may live.”

[1:10]  ¹¹ tn BDAG 129 s.v. ἀρεσκεία states that ἀρεσκείαν (areskeian) refers to a “desire to please εἰς πᾶσαν ἀ. to please (the Lord) in all respects Col 1:10.”

[2:1]  ¹³ tn Or “I want you to know how hard I am working for you…”

[2:1]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.”

[3:16]  ¹⁶ tc Since “the word of Christ” occurs nowhere else in the NT, two predictable variants arose: “word of God” and “word of the Lord.” Even though some of the witnesses for these variants are impressive (κυρίου [kuriou, “of the Lord”] in א* I 1175 pc bo; θεοῦ [qeou, “of God”] in A C* 33 104 323 945 al), the reading Χριστοῦ (Cristou, “of Christ”) is read by an excellent cross-section of witnesses (Ì⁴⁶ א² B C² D F G Ψ 075 1739 1881 Ï lat sa). On both internal and external grounds, Χριστοῦ is strongly preferred.

[3:16]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “with grace”; “all” is supplied as it is implicitly related to all the previous instructions in the verse.

[4:11]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “those of the circumcision.” The verse as a whole is difficult to translate because it is unclear whether Paul is saying (1) that the only people working with him are Jewish converts at the time the letter is being written or previously, or (2) that Aristarchus, Mark, and Jesus Justus were the only Jewish Christians who ever worked with him. Verses 12-14 appear to indicate that Luke and Demas, who were Gentiles, were also working currently with Paul. This is the view adopted in the translation. See M. J. Harris, Colossians and Philemon (EGGNT), 207-8.