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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Beware lest any man spoil you (plunder you, it might be rendered,) Col_2:8. through philosophy and vein deceit, “Beware of those who pretend that they are going to enrich you, but whose real object is to plunder you. They say that they will give you advanced thought, deeper ideas, a system more congruous with the age; but it is” — Col_2:8. After...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Plenty of people would spoil you in this way, by teaching you their profound thoughts, their grand inventions, their bright ideas. Beware of all of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Beware lest any man spoil you — Or, “rob you” Col_2:8. Through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Cleave to Christ, beloved. Go no further than he leads you; and turn not away from him either to the right hand or to the left. In him are contained all the riches of grace,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. This is to be understood, not of the doctrine, or Gospel of Christ, as being a perfect revelation of the will of God; but of Christ, and particularly of his human nature, as consisting of a true body and a reasonable soul, in which the Godhead dwells in a most eminent manner: God indeed is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. In Christ, we enter into the fullness and completeness of life both materially and spiritually.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Everything, then, must be in Christ if all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him. Why do you want to go anywhere else for wisdom? What can you find by going elsewhere? “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: You have everything in Christ that you ought to want; you are fully furnished, completely supplied and equipped for all future service. You need not go to Christ for the supply of some of your needs, and then go...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And ye are complete in him,.... Or "filled up", or "filled full" in him; that is, are perfect in him: saints are in Christ, and all fulness being in him, they are full too, of as much as they stand in need, and are capable of containing: for these words are not an exhortation to perfection, as the Arabic version reads then, be ye complete in him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; “The Jew boasts that he is a circumcised man, but you have spiritually all that circumcision meant literally. Even though you have not the wounded...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye are complete in him, You are like vessels filled up to the brim. You are like warriors thoroughly furnished, fully armed for the fight: “Ye are complete in him.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: All that the Jew ever had you have in Christ, only you have the real purification of which his rite was but a symbol.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In whom also ye are circumcised,.... This is said to prevent an objection that might be made to the perfection of these Gentile believers, because they were not circumcised; for the Jews thought that perfection lay in circumcision, at least that there could be no perfection without it: "great is circumcision (say they (x)), for notwithstanding all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Anything good that there was in Judaism, you have secured to you in Christ. Whatever there was of blessing and privilege in the covenant mark in the flesh of those whom God made to be his people...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Buried with him in baptism,.... The apostle goes on to observe how complete and perfect the saints are in Christ; that they are not only circumcised in him in a spiritual sense, and the body of the sins of their flesh is put off, and removed from them, in allusion to the cutting off and casting away of the foreskin in circumcision; but that they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. “You have death, burial, and resurrection, all in Christ; and you received the outward sign and token of this when you were baptized, so believe firmly that it is so, and do not look anywhere else for it. You...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. It is only as you are one with Christ that baptism will be to you what he intended; but “buried with him in baptism,” you are dead to all beside, and all your life lies in him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And you being dead in your sins,.... Not corporeally, though sin had subjected them to a corporeal death, and their bodies were really mortal, and in a little time must die; but morally, sin had brought a death upon them in a moral sense, they were separated from God, as at death the body is from the soul, and so were alienated from the life of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. “You do not need to go to a ‘priest’ for pardon, for Christ has forgiven you all your trespasses. You are so complete in Christ that confession to man and priestly absolution from man would be of no use to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision, of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, All your life is in Christ; you are “quickened together with him.” Col_2:13. Having forgiven you all trespasses; Your pardon is given to you in Christ. Oh, how full and how free is that forgiveness that comes to you through Christ Jesus!