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The Lexham Research Commentary is your starting point for study and research. It surveys all the relevant literature on a passage and brings the summary back to you. This guide summarizes a broad range of views on a particular passage—views you may or may not agree with, but in all cases, views you will encounter as you critically study the text. A complete introduction to each literary unit in...

Paul’s central message in Colossians is the affirmation of the sufficiency of Christ in the face of false philosophy in Colossae and the threat it posed to the truth of the gospel. Paul uses each section of the letter to address this problem. In the opening section he gives thanks for the Colossians’ acceptance of “the word of truth” (the gospel) and asks God to fill them with knowledge of His will (Col 1:3–10). The theological reality behind the great Christ hymn in Col 1:15–20 is presented as the
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