Colossians 1:8

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

Your love (Colossians 1:4) - "to all the saints."

In the Spirit - the element IN which alone true love is found (Romans 14:17; Romans 15:30), as distinguished from that of those "in the flesh" (Romans 8:9). Even they needed to be stirred up to greater love (Colossians 3:12-14). Love is the first-fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22).

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Your love in the Spirit — Your love wrought in you by the Spirit.

⁸ Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

Related Commentaries of Colossians 1:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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