If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1) If you are familiar with the letters of the Apostle Paul, you will recognize a familiar transition that happens at Colossians 3:1. In chapters 1 and 2 Paul wrote about […]
Romans 16 expresses God’s love for the people, name by name.
Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations; “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using; according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed […]
Als er so die Herrschaften und Gewalten entwaffnet hatte, stellte er sie öffentlich an den Pranger und triumphierte über sie an demselben. (Kolosser 2,15) In diesem Teil von Paulus` Brief an die Kolosser beschreibt er die vielen verschiedenen Aspekte von dem, was Jesus am Kreuz getan hatte. Es gab eine Schuldschrift voller Anschuldigungen gegen uns, […]
An important part of the Christian life is going out into all the world and giving the good news of Jesus.
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Colossians 2:16-17) Sometimes little words mean a lot, and the first word of Colossians 2:16 is just that. The opening […]
Und er hat die gegen uns gerichtete Schuldschrift ausgelöscht, die durch Satzungen uns entgegenstand, und hat sie aus dem Weg geschafft, indem er sie ans Kreuz heftete. (Kolosser 2,14) Paulus schreibt über das, was Jesus am Kreuz tat und beschreibt einen Aspekt davon auf eine komplett andere Weise. Paulus sagt, dass Jesus am Kreuz die […]
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:15) In this part of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, Paul described the many different aspects of what Jesus accomplished on the cross. There was a handwriting of the accusations and debts against us, and at the […]