Colossians 3:15-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:16

‘Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to God.’ The ‘logos of Christ’ may be intended to refer to the same thing as the ‘logos of the cross’ (1 Corinthians 1:18), referring to preaching concerning Christ and the preaching of the cross respectively. The Christian is to receive such sound teaching gladly, and meditate on it, and let it fill his heart and his mind.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:17

‘And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.’ Paul wants us to take seriously that it is Christ Who lives through us. He is Jesus the Lord, and we are His people. When a servant wore the livery of his lord he was seen as acting in the name of his lord. This explains the change to ‘the Lord Jesus’. We act in the name of our Lord. We have ‘put on the new man’, we wear Christ’s livery, thus all we say and do must in... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:1-17

Colossians 3:1-Esther : . 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 on terrestrial things, but on things high and heavenly. So far as their old life was concerned they died ( i.e. in baptism); their life now is a hidden life in God. That is what it means to be united with Christ ( Colossians 3:3). It is Christ who is our life. Hidden... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of God; he doth not say the peace of the world, but the peace of God, or, as some copies, the peace of Christ; be sure, without the mediation of Christ we can have no peace with God; he alone hath made peace, Colossians 1:20, with Colossians 2:14; he is our peace, making it with God and amongst ourselves, to whom he hath preached it, Acts 10:36; Ephesians 2:14-17, and whom he hath brought into the bond of it, Ephesians 4:3; the Lord of peace himself, who always gives it where... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom: one learned man conceives Paul to have written this first clause of the verse as in a parenthesis, joining in the sense what next follows to be ye thankful in the foregoing verse; another would have the parenthesis to begin from Colossians 3:14. The thing here exhorted to, is the plentiful inhabitation of the doctrine of the Bible, more especially of the gospel, that it may take up its residence and abode in our souls, which comes from... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 3:17

And whatsoever ye do: here the apostle give a universal direction how in every capacity, both personal and relative, in every motion, a Christian may do all so as to find acceptance with God. In word or deed; and that is in his expressions and actings, viz. comprehending his internal as well as external operations; his reasonings and resolutions within, as well as his motions without; the thoughts of his heart, as well as the words of his tongue and the works of his hand; to take (care as much... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:15

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESColossians 3:15. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts.—R.V. margin, “arbitrate.” We met the verb for “rule” in Colossians 2:18, but with a prefix “against.” “Let the peace of God be umpire,” says the apostle, in every case of uncertainty and hesitation. He who slept on Galilee’s stormy waters had but to say, “Peace! Be still!” and there was a great calm. He said, “My peace I leave with you”; and reckless of consequences the men who received it amazed the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:16

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESColossians 3:16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.—The word for “dwell in” is the same which assures the believer of an indwelling power which shall quicken the mortal body, and which describes the divine act of grace, “I will dwell in them.” In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.—See on Ephesians 5:18-19. The same composition may be either psalm, hymn, or spiritual song. The first may be a technical word, as in Luke 24:44. It indicates a song... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Colossians 3:17

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Colossians 3:17Suggestive Summary of the Law of Christian Duty.Labour, which was originally imposed on man as a curse, may minister very largely to the increase of human happiness. The effort necessary to contend with and subdue the hostile forces of nature, and wrest from the earth the food essential to existence, strengthens and elevates the best powers of man. All men are prompted to labour by some distinct principle or ruling passion: the savage by the cravings of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:15

Colossians 3:15 The Peace of God and the Peace of the Devil. The word "peace" is that which is most frequently employed in the Scriptures to set forth the blessedness of the righteous. Peace suggests the idea of what is calm, deep, tranquil, unruffled, something that may be in its nature divine and in its character permanent. I. Religious peace may be denominated the peace of God, because, in one sense, or in some of its higher elements, it is that for which God made and constituted man at... read more

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