[a]For [b]in him [c]dwelleth [d]all the fullness of the Godhead [e]bodily.

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

11 [f]In whom also ye are circumcised with (A)circumcision made without hands, by putting off the [g]sinful body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:9 A reason: Because only Christ God and man, is most perfect, and passeth far above all things, so that whosoever hath him, may require nothing more.
  2. Colossians 2:9 By these words, is showed a distinction of the natures.
  3. Colossians 2:9 This word (Dwelleth) noteth out unto us the joining together of those natures, so that of God and Man, is one Christ.
  4. Colossians 2:9 These words set down most perfect Godhead to be in Christ.
  5. Colossians 2:9 The knitting together of God and man, is substantial and essential.
  6. Colossians 2:11 Now he dealeth perfecty against the third kind, that is to say, against them which urged the Jewish religion: and first of all, he denieth that we have need of the Circumcision of the flesh, seeing that without it we are circumcised within, by the virtue of Christ.
  7. Colossians 2:11 These many words are used to show what the old man is, whom Paul in other places calleth the body of sin.

Bible Gateway Recommends