Colossians 3 1-11

03/17 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

      Paul’s Letter To The Colossians

                  (paraphrased)

1 - So! If you have been raised with Christ, seek the above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the above {the higher}, not the upon earth {lower, selfish, mundane}. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ! In God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory {radiance}.

5 Put to death therefore what is the lower - {example, the first gone rogue one, Lucifer, radiant angel to serpent who slithers in the dust/lowest level} sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. [Wrath - greek orge - passion] {in my opinion, logically, cause and effect, his passion as opposed to creation as some sort of ant farm.}

     7 In such things you too (mostly gentiles) once were living in. 8 But now you must put all that away, also anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene jesting. {Division, slander, accusation.} 9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing you have put off the old self with those practices 10 and have put on the new self, the one being renewed in knowledge according to the image off the one having created us. 11 Here there is not Greek and Hebrew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all, and in all.

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

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Tomorrows verses - Colossians 3:12-25

My own studies. Been neglecting Psalms (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150) and the Prophets.