Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Colossians 3:1
The New Life in Christ
SUMMARY OF COLOSSIANS 3: Fellowship with the Risen Christ. Our Lives
with Him. Hence, All the Evil Deeds of the Old Life Must Be Put
Away. All Distinctions Done Away in Christ. Hence, Brotherly Love
Must Be Cherished. The Indwelling of Christ's Word. Concerning
Songs. Various Duties.
If ye then be risen with Christ. The Revised Version is correct:
"If then ye were raised together with Christ". A definite act, not a
state, is referred to. The definite act is named in Colossians 2:12. When
they were "buried with him in baptism", they were also raised from this
burial with him through faith, quickened. Hence here he says, "If then
ye were raised with him", if your obedience was from the heart and in
faith, if you rose therefore "with him" (these are the emphatic words),
then
seek those things which are above. The risen Christ ascended; let
your aspirations ascend also.
Where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
See PNT "Eph 1:20".
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ephesians 2:6
Philippians 3:10
Philippians 3:19
Colossians 2:23
Colossians 3:1
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