1. Things to put off 3:5-11On the basis of their position in Christ, Paul urged his readers to separate from the practices of their former way of life. He did this to enable them to realize in their experience all that Jesus Christ could produce in and through them. Three imperatives indicate Paul’s main points: consider as dead (lit. put to death, Colossians 3:5), put aside (Colossians 3:8), and do not lie (Colossians 3:9). read more
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
Such behavior will bring God’s wrath eventually. That is, God will discipline Christians as well as non-believers who practice these things. These activities normally characterize the unsaved, so Christians are to lay them aside (Colossians 3:8; cf. Matthew 5:29-30; Romans 8:13; Ephesians 5:3-14)."The Christian must kill self-centeredness; he must regard as dead all private desires and ambitions. There must be in his life a radical transformation of the will, and a radical shift of the centre.... read more
3:8 off, (a-4) The aorist. 'be in the state of having done it.' read more
The Christian’s Risen Life and the Duties it entails1-4. Resurrection with Christ and the heavenly life.Paraphrase] ’(1) Seeing then that at your conversion you shared not Christ’s death only, but His resurrection, go on to participate in His heavenly life, in that heaven where He is, and where He sits at God’s right hand. (2) Let your whole thought be set on heavenly, not on earthly things. (3) For you died with Christ, and your life in union with Him is a hidden life in God. (4) It is not... read more
Colossians 3:5-9 contain the negative section of St. Paul’s practical appeal, drawing out the consequences of the “death with Christ,” in the mortification of all tendencies to impurity, malice, and falsehood. For these are the opposites to purity, love, and truth—the three great attributes of God, and therefore the three chief graces of man. read more
[5.Practical Exhortation, General.(1) NEGATIVE.—To MORTIFY THE OLD MAN, by fleeing from—(a)Uncleanness and lust (Colossians 3:5-7);(b)Wrath and malice (Colossians 3:8); (c)Falsehood (Colossians 3:9).(2) POSITIVE.—To PUT ON THE NEW MAN, making Christ our “all in all.”(a)In love and peace, as shown in mercy, humility, patience, and forgiveness (Colossians 3:10-15);(b)In thanksgiving (Colossians 3:16);(c)In living to the glory of God (Colossians 3:17);(The whole of this section stands in close... read more
(8) Anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy (slander—see Ephesians 4:31 and Notes there), filthy communication.—The word is “foul,” and the context here seems to show that it refers to grossness of insult and abuse, rather than (as in the cognate word of Ephesians 4:4) to “filthiness.” read more
(9) Lie not one to another.—Comp. Ephesians 4:25, and note the characteristic insertion there of a clause to which there is nothing here to correspond, “for we are members one of another.”Seeing that ye (have) put off the old man.—Comp. the fuller description of Ephesians 4:22-24. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Colossians 3:9
9. ( :-.) put off—Greek, "wholly put off"; utterly renounced [TITTMANN]. (Ephesians 4:22). the old man—the unregenerate nature which ye had before conversion. his deeds—habits of acting. read more