Pentecost Season · Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year C
Colossians 2:12-14
Rooted and Built Up in Christ
July 30, 2028
Overview & Insights
"As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him." (Colossians 2:6-7)
Paul warns the Colossians against being taken captive by hollow philosophy and human tradition, insisting that the fullness of deity dwells in Christ bodily and that believers already share in that fullness. In the optional verses he warns against letting anyone judge them by ritual observances that were only a shadow of what has come in Christ.
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Commentary
Colossians 2 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik
Walks through Paul's teaching on baptism as burial and resurrection with Christ.
Commentary on Colossians 2:6-15 [16-19] Working Preacher
Explains how Paul equates the circumcision of Christ with baptism into his death and resurrection.
Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19) Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching
Traces Paul's repeated language of being in Christ and with Christ through this passage.
Colossians 2:11-13 Commentary Precept Austin
Gives a word study of the circumcision made without hands and burial in baptism.
Colossians 2:12 Commentaries BibleHub
Collects classic commentary on being buried and raised with Christ.
Colossians 2 StudyLight
Offers Barnes's notes on the cancelled record of debt nailed to the cross.
Background & Word Study
Colossians 2:12 Interlinear BibleHub
Shows the Greek text word by word for Paul's teaching on baptism.
Colossians Enter the Bible
Provides a Luther Seminary introduction to the letter's themes and setting.
Book of Colossians Summary BibleProject
Gives an animated overview of the letter's argument about life hidden with Christ.
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