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Their Faith in Christ

3 aWe give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,  
4 asince we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of byour love for all the saints;  
5 because of the hope awhich is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,  
6 which has come to you, aas it has also in all the world, and bis bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew cthe grace of God in truth;  
7 as you also learned from aEpaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is ba faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,  
8 who also declared to us your alove in the Spirit.  

Preeminence of Christ

9 aFor this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask bthat you may be filled with cthe knowledge of His will din all wisdom and spiritual understanding;  
10 athat you may walk worthy of the Lord, bfully pleasing Him, cbeing fruitful in every good work and increasing in the dknowledge of God;  
11 astrengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, bfor all patience and longsuffering cwith joy;  
12 agiving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of bthe inheritance of the saints in the light.  
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Colossians 1:5

Because of the hope (dia thn elpida). See Romans 8:24. It is not clear whether this phrase is to be linked with euxa istoumen at the beginning of verse Colossians 1:3 or (more likely) with thn agaphn just before. Note also here pistiv (faith), agaph (love), elpiv (hope), though not grouped together so sharply as in I Corinthians 13:13. Here hope is objective, the goal ahead.

Laid up (apokeimeinhn). Literally, "laid away or by." Old word used in Luke 19:20 of the pound laid away in a napkin. See also apoqhsaurizw, to store away for future use (I Timothy 6:19). The same idea occurs in Matthew 6:20 (treasure in heaven) and I Peter 1:4 and it is involved in Philippians 3:20.

Ye heard before (prohkousate). First aorist indicative active of this old compound proakouw, though only here in the N.T. Before what? Before Paul wrote? Before the realization? Before the error of the Gnostics crept in? Each view is possible and has advocates. Lightfoot argues for the last and it is probably correct as is indicated by the next clause.

In the word of the truth of the gospel (en tw logw thv alhqeiav tou euaggeliou). "In the preaching of the truth of the gospel" (Galatians 2:5, Galatians 2:14) which is come (parontov, present active participle agreeing with euaggeliou, being present, a classical use of pareimi as in Acts 12:20). They heard the pure gospel from Epaphras before the Gnostics came.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Colossians 1:5:

2 Timothy 4:8
Hebrews 9:27
James 1:18
1 Peter 1:4

 

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