Colossians 3:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. ”

• Colossians 3:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When Christ, who is our life - Notes, John 1:4 ; John 11:25 , note. Shall appear - In the day when he shall come to judge the world. Then shall ye also appear with him in glory - 1 The...

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• Colossians 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  appear . be manifested. App-106. glory. See p. 1511.

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• Colossians 3:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. But when Christ, our life, shall appear. Here we have a choice consolation — that the coming of Christ will be the manifestation of our life. And, at the same time, he admonishes us how un...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2183 THE EXALTED STATE OF A CHRISTIAN Colossians 3:3-4 . Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear wi...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. When Christ, who is our life - When Christ comes to judge the world, ye shall appear with him in his glory,...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 'When Christ shall be manifested, who is our life ( John 11:25 ; John 14:19 ; Galatians 2:20 ), then...

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• Colossians 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  III. (1-4) As the partaking of the death of Christ taught the negative lesson of death to the Law, so the partaking of His resurrection teaches the positive lesson of the spiritual life. We observ...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 3 THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN LIFE A RISEN LIFE Colossians 3:1-4 (R.V.) We have now done with controversy. We hear no more about heretical teachers. The Apostle has cut his way through the t...

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• Colossians 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (3) For ye a...

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• Colossians 3:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear ,.... The Vulgate Latin version, and some copies, read, "your life". Christ is the author of spiritual life, the fountain from whence it springs, the objec...

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• Colossians 3:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Ver. 4. Then shall we appear ] What then do we loading onrselves with thick clay, or moiling ourselves h...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For ye are dead As to sin, so to the world and all earthly things, and that both by profession as Christians, and by an indispensable obligation laid upon you by Him whose laws you have engaged to...

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• Colossians 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Spiritual Life. A. D.  62.       1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are a...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear; which will be, according to the purpose and promise of God, with whom it is laid up, Colossians 1:5 , when Christ by whom they live shall so appear th...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘When Christ who is our life shall be revealed and made fully made known, then will you also be fully made known with him in glory.' And what a glorious future awaits the Christian. For one day at H...

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• Colossians 3:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Colossians 3:3 . Your life is hid with Christ in God. —You are much more likely to have it kept pure by having it in Christ than by setting round it a hedge of “Th...

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• Colossians 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Affections of the Christians Set on Things Above.

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• Colossians 3:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:43 ; 1 John 1:1 ; 1 John 1:2 ; 1 John 2:28 ; 1 John 3:2 ; 1 John 5:12 ; 1 Peter 5:4 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ; 1 Timothy 6:14 ; 2 Corinthians 4:17 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:10-12...

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• Colossians 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  When Christ — The abruptness of the sentence surrounds us with sudden light. Our life — The fountain of holiness and glory. Shall appear — In the clouds of heaven.

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