Chapter three introduces the practical steps believers can take to make sure we do not get caught up in these other foolish things that take us away from Christ. The most important step is to keep our minds focused on Christ himself, rather than on other things (Colossians 3:1-11). Truly spiritual things are higher than […]
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
