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This volume in the NIV Application Commentary series discusses the meaning of the text of Colossians and Philemon in its biblical context and then applies it to contemporary situations. Discover how Colossians and Philemon can have the same powerful impact today that they did when Paul first wrote them.

detours offered by opponents, which would divert them from their sole allegiance to Christ and mire them in spiritual quicksand, Paul returns in 3:1–4:6 to directions on how believers should live. In 2:7, Paul lists four characteristics of what it means “to live in [the Lord]” (2:6), each expressed with a participle. The first participle (“rooted”) appears in the perfect tense (expressing the continuing results of an action completed in the past); the next three (“built up,” “strengthened,” and “overflowing”)
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