Chapter two continues the account of Paul’s struggle on behalf of the Colossians and Laodiceans (Colossians 2:1-5). He thought that those who had never met him could not quite appreciate the struggle he went through for them. This was especially concerning because of the detractors that continually came behind him, slandering him to the new […]
Introduction Colossians was one of Paul’s “prison epistles,” written while he was under house arrest in Rome, at the same time as Ephesians and Philemon and carried to Colossae by Tychicus (Colossians 4:7; Ephesians 6:21). There is a great deal of overlap and repetition between Colossians and Ephesians, leading (along with other things) to the
Chapter four picks up on John’s mention of the Holy Spirit in 1 John 3:24. Paul wrote that the Spirit is God’s seal of salvation (Ephesians 1:13-14) and assurance of our relationship with God (Romans 8:16); John agreed. The Spirit is the internal evidence of knowing God, while our obedience is the external (3:24). One
