Colossians 2:10 BSB

Colossians 2:10

And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

BSB

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ASV

and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

KJV

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Colossians (1274)

Then when he says, and you have come to fulness in him, he shows the same thing by relating Christ to others. He is saying, in effect: You have received all things: "From his fulness have we all received" (Jn 1:16). We should note that …

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And ye are complete in him - Και εστε εν αυτῳ πεπληρωμενοι· And, ye are filled with him. Our word complete quite destroys the connection subsisting in the apostle’s ideas. The philosophy of the world was empty, κενη, but there was a πληρωμα, or fullness, in Christ; the Colossians were empty - spoiled and deprived of every good, while following the empty philosophy and groundless traditions of Jewish and Gentile teachers; but since they had received Christ Jesus they were πεπληρωμενοι, filled with him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He is full of the "fulness" itself; we, filled from Him. Paul implies, Therefore ye Colossians need no supplementary sources of grace, such as the false teachers dream of. Christ is "the Head of all rule and authority" (so the Greek), Eph 1:10;

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐστὲ	este	you are	G1510 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
αὐτῷ	autō	Him	G846 →
πεπληρωμένοι,	peplērōmenoi	completed,	G4137 →
ὅς	hos	who	G3739 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
κεφαλὴ	kephalē	head	G2776 →
πάσης	pasēs	of all	G3956 →
ἀρχῆς	archēs	rule	G746 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξουσίας·	exousias	authority;	G1849 →

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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
Ephesians 3:19
of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
leads to
- Ephesians 1:23
  which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
- Colossians 2:9–10
  For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
- Colossians 1:10
  so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
- 2 Corinthians 5:14
  For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- 1 John 4:9–14
  This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
Through
1 Peter 3:22
who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:24
  For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
- Hebrews 12:2
  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand…
- Hebrews 10:12
  But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Colossians

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Colossians