Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Colossians 3:5-17
B. The proper method 3:5-17"Colossians 3:1-4 has provided the perspective from which the daily life of the Colossian Christians should be lived out. Now follows more specific advice that should help them the better to carry out the thematic exhortation to ’walk in him’ (Colossians 2:6)." [Note: Dunn, p. 211.] read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Colossians 3:16
16. The form which "thankfulness" (Colossians 3:15) ought to take. Let the word of Christ—the Gospel word by which ye have been called. richly— (Colossians 2:2; Romans 15:14). in all wisdom—ALFORD joins this clause with "teaching," c., not with "dwell in you," as English Version, for so we find in Romans 15:14- :, "teaching in all wisdom," and the two clauses will thus correspond, "In all wisdom teaching," and "in grace singing in your hears" (so the Greek order). and . . . and—The oldest... read more