Colossians 3:16 BSB

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

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ASV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

KJV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

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Commentary

4 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2679: “Christ's Indwelling Word” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1900)

THAT is a very beautiful name for Holy Scripture. I hardly remember to have met with it anywhere else—"Let the word of Christ dwell in you." Remember, dear Friends, that Christ Himself is the Word of God, and also remember that the Scriptures are the word of the Word. They are "the word of Christ."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Let the word of Christ - So the apostle calls the whole scripture, and thereby asserts the divinity of his Master. Dwell - Not make a short stay, or an occasional visit, but take up its stated residence.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Religious poesy seems countenanced by these expressions and is capable of great edification. But, when we sing psalms, we make no melody unless we sing with grace in our hearts, unless we are suitably affected with what we sing and go along in it with true devotion and understanding.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Paul contrasts (as in Eph 5:18, 19) the songs of Christians at their social meetings, with the bacchanalian and licentious songs of heathen feasts. Singing usually formed part of the entertainment at Greek banquets (compare Jas 5:13). with grace--Greek, "IN grace," the element in which your singing is to be: "the grace" of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁ	Ho	The	G3588 →
λόγος	logos	word	G3056 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστοῦ	Christou	of Christ	G5547 →
ἐνοικείτω	enoikeitō	should dwell	G1774 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ὑμῖν	humin	you	G4771 →
πλουσίως,	plousiōs	richly,	G4146 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
πάσῃ	pasē	all	G3956 →
σοφίᾳ,	sophia	wisdom	G4678 →
διδάσκοντες	didaskontes	teaching	G1321 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
νουθετοῦντες	nouthetountes	admonishing	G3560 →
ἑαυτοὺς	he'autous	yourselves	G1438 →
ψαλμοῖς,	psalmois	in psalms,	G5568 →
ὕμνοις,	humnois	in hymns,	G5215 →
ᾠδαῖς	ōdais	in songs	G5603 →
πνευματικαῖς	pneumatikais	spiritual	G4152 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
χάριτι	chariti	grace	G5485 →
ᾄδοντες	adontes	singing	G103 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ταῖς	tais	the	G3588 →
καρδίαις	kardiais	hearts	G2588 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ·	theō	to God;	G2316 →

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

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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
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
leads to
- Revelation 10:9–10
  And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as…
- Ezekiel 3:1–3
  “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
- Psalms 119:101–103
  I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
- Job 23:12
  I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
- Psalms 19:10
  They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
Through
John 15:7
If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
leads to
- Psalms 37:4
  Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
- 1 John 5:14
  And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
- John 14:13
  And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Colossians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Colossians