Colossians 3:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. ”

• Colossians 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew - See this fully explained in the notes at Galatians 3:28 . The meaning here is, that all are on a level; that there is no distinction of nation in the churc...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (9) Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all. (9) He tells them again that the Gospel does not ref...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  neither . App-105. Jew , Sc. Compare Galatians 1:3 , Gal 1:28. Barbarian . See Acts 28:2 . Scythian . Regarded by the ancients as the lowest type of barbarians. bond. App-190. all, he....

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• Colossians 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. Where there is neither Jew. He has added this intentionally, that he may again draw away the Colossians from ceremonies. For the meaning of the statement is this, that Christian perfectio...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2184 CHRIST IS ALL Colossians 3:11 . Christ is all, and in all . MEN are ever ready to value themselves upon their natural endowments, their civil distinctions, or their religious pr...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew - In which new creat...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Where there is neither Greek, &c.— St. Paul's main design in this Epistle was, to establish the Colossians in theiradherence to the gospel mystery of the calling of the Gentiles, and maintainin...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Where - `Wherein;' namely, in the sphere of the renew...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  [ 5. Practical Exhortation, General. (1) NEGATIVE. — To MORTIFY THE OLD MAN, by fleeing from — ( a ) Uncleanness and lust ( Colossians 3:5-7 ); ( b ) Wrath and malice ( Colossians 3:8 );...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 3 THE NEW NATURE WROUGHT OUT IN NEW LIFE Colossians 3:9-11 (R.V.) IN previous chapter we were obliged to break the close connection between these words and the preceding. They adduce a...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Seeking the “Things That Are Above” Colossians 3:1-11 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 Cr...

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• Colossians 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 b...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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 wr...

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• Colossians 3:11 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  ALL AND IN ALL ‘Christ is all, and in all.’ Colossians 3:11 How little can we see of Christ but a bare and faint outline! Why, it will take all eternity to exhaust that subject; it will take...

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• Colossians 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew ,.... That is, either in Christ, after whose image the new man is created; see Galatians 5:6 or in the new man, and with respect to regeneration; or in the wh...

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• Colossians 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Ver. 11. Christ is all, and in all ] Not only in the...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But now ye also Being converted to the pure, peaceable, and devout religion of the Lord Jesus; put off Mortify; all these corrupt passions and lusts; anger , &c. See on Ephesians 4:31 ;...

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• Colossians 3:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 th...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Necessity of Mortifying Sin. A. D.  62.       8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, ma...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He prevents the reasoning of those, who did not neglect regeneration, and place religion in more externals, showing that in the new man, or true sanctification, and real Christianity, there was suffi...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but Christ is all in all.' Once likeness to Christ becomes the objective all these divis...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Colossians 3:9-11 The New Spiritual Nature. In the primitive Church it was customary for the new converts, after putting aside their heathenish vestments, to...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Colossians 3:11 Christ All, and in all. I. Christ is the substance or fulness of "all" things that which really goes to make the being of everything. Let us pause a little, and help ourselves to...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 ab...

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• Colossians 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Colossians 3:1-51 SECTION VII . THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE . The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the c...

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• Colossians 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Putting Off the Old Man and Putting On the New.

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• Colossians 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:29 ; 1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 Corinthians 12:13 ; 1 Corinthians 14:11 ; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23 ; 1 Corinthians 7:19 ; 1 Corinthians 7:21 ; 1 Corinthians 7:22 ; 1 John 5:11 ; 1...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The New Life in Christ Jesus Colossians 3:1-15 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...

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• Colossians 3:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Where — In which case, it matters not what a man is externally, whether Jew or gentile, circumcised, or uncircumcised, barbarian, void of all the advantages of education, yea, Scythian, of all barb...

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