Colossians 1:27 BSB

Colossians 1:27

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

KJV

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

To whom - To the saints. God would make known - “Willed (Greek) to make known;” that is, he was pleased to make this known. It was concealed in his bosom until he chose to reveal it to his apostles. It was a doctrine which the Jewish people did not understand; Eph 3:5-6. What is the riches of the glory of this mystery - The rich glory of this great, long-concealed truth. On the use of the word “riches,” see the notes at Rom 2:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This mystery, thus made known, is Christ in you (or among you) the hope of glory. Observe, Christ is the hope of glory. The ground of our hope is Christ in the word, or the gospel revelation, declaring the nature and methods of obtaining it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1720: “Christ in You” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1883)

THE Gospel is the grand secret—the mystery of mysteries! It was hidden from ages and from generations, but is now made manifest to the saints. To the mass of mankind it was utterly unknown and the chosen people, who saw something of it, only perceived it dimly through the smoke of sacrifices and the veil of types. It remained a mystery which wit could not guess nor invention unravel—and it would have forever have continued a secret had not God, in His infinite mercy, been pleased to reveal it by the Holy Spirit.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἷς	hois	to whom	G3739 →
ἠθέλησεν	ēthelēsen	has willed	G2309 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
γνωρίσαι,	gnōrisai	to make known	G1107 →
τί	ti	what	G5101 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πλοῦτος	ploutos	riches	G4149 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
δόξης	doxēs	glory	G1391 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
μυστηρίου	mustēriou	mystery	G3466 →
τούτου	toutou	this	G3778 →
ἐν	en	among	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
ἔθνεσιν,	ethnesin	Gentiles,	G1484 →
ὅ	ho	which	G3739 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
Χριστὸς	Christos	Christ	G5547 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ὑμῖν,	humin	you,	G4771 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ἐλπὶς	elpis	hope	G1680 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
δόξης·	doxēs	of glory;	G1391 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
leads to
- Galatians 5:24
  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15
  And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- Romans 6:4–6
  We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of…
- Colossians 3:3–4
  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Through
1 John 4:4
You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
leads to
- Romans 8:31
  What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- 1 John 5:4
  because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
- Romans 8:37
  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.