Colossians 1:9-20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 1:19

‘For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fullness dwell.’ Once more the good pleasure of God comes into account. All things happen according to His good pleasure. And it was His good pleasure that ‘all the fullness’ should permanently dwell in Him. The meaning of ‘fullness’ here would seem to be the entire attributes of the Godhead. In Him there was nothing lacking of the fullness of God (compare Ephesians 3:19). ‘Of the Father.’ This is not in the Greek text and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 1:20

‘And through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him, I say, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens.’ This verse concludes what Colossians 1:16 began. In Colossians 1:16 Paul began with ‘all things’ created in the heavens and on the earth, here he finishes with ‘all things’ reconciled to Him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens. The reversal of heavens and earth (Colossians 1:16) to earth and heavens... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 1:9-14

Colossians 1:9-2 Chronicles : . A Paragraph of Prayer.— Paul reciprocates their prayers for him. He constantly offers petition on their behalf since first he heard of them. He desires for them ( a) fulness of knowledge to discern the Divine will, that so they may walk worthily of Christ and please Him, and by means of the knowledge of God may bear fruit and increase ( cf. Colossians 1:6) in every good activity; and ( b) strength proportioned to the power of the Divine glory, that so they... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 1:15-20

Colossians 1:15-Proverbs : . A Paragraph of Christology (in tacit Opposition to the False Teaching at Colossæ ).— Christ is the derivative and visible manifestation of God who is unseen. He is the heir-in-chief of the created universe, for in Him is the principle of the creation of all things— things in the heavens as well as things on the earth, things seen and things unseen also, the angelic orders not excluded. He is in fact the source and goal of every created thing, Himself supreme over... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also; he doth here suggest the motive mentioned in the precedent verses, viz. their faith and love, Colossians 1:4,Colossians 1:5, and their special love to him, Colossians 1:8, why he and his brethren had them so much upon their hearts: See Poole on "Ephesians 1:15-17". Since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you: it seems, from the time they were refreshed with these things they did (as he exhorts the Colossians here, Colossians 4:2) always upon all solemn... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 1:10

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord: they prayed for the above mentioned gracious habits, that the Colossians might exercise them in a course of life as it becomes those who are effectually called by the gospel to be the sons of God, and the servants of Christ; suitable to the members of the body of Christ: See Poole on "Ephesians 4:1". See Poole on "Philippians 1:27"; compared with Romans 16:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:11. As the word God alone ordinary connotes the Father, so... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 1:11

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power: whereunto that they might be enabled, it was needful to pray for a power from above, for the best Christians here below are but infirm as well as imperfect, not able to perform what is required of them for doing and suffering the will of God till strengthened: See Poole on "Philippians 4:13", compared with Revelation 7:17. We have here great need of all might, special aids of God, to discharge difficult duties, to mortify strong... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 1:12

Giving thanks unto the Father; he passeth from petitioning, Colossians 1:9, to thanksgiving to God the Father, upon the consideration of his grace manifested in his Son for our redemption. In the Ephesians, Ephesians 1:3,Ephesians 1:4, he began with election, here with effectual vocation; he acknowledgeth God the Father to be the object and author of what was wrought for us by his Son, and in us by his Spirit. Which hath made us meet; who hath made us capable of communion with himself, or ready... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 1:13

The power of darkness, which signifies the sadness and despair of the damned, Ephesians 6:12; Jude 1:8, that they who are made meet to walk in the light as children of the light, Ephesians 5:8, are eternally freed from. The word which the apostle useth to express God’s delivering of believers from the power of sin and Satan is very emphatical, signifying a gratuitous freedom, where a stranger hath delivered him from slavery who did not deserve it, nor then desire it, Mark 3:27; Luke 1:74,Luke... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Colossians 1:14

In whom; i.e. in the person of Christ alone God-man, deputed of his Father to die for our salvation, Acts 4:12; Acts 20:28. We; as we are in him, made meet, Colossians 1:12. Have redemption; we have eternal deliverance, Hebrews 9:12, effected by a full ransom paid, 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Corinthians 7:23; 1 Peter 1:18,1 Peter 1:19. For the freeing us indeed out of a state of sin and misery, John 8:36, or eternal death the wages of sin, Romans 6:23; Romans 16:20; so that by redemption here is not... read more

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