📖 The Book of Colossians
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Christ is supreme over all — the fullness of God in human form.
Who wrote Colossians?
Author
Paul
Written
c. AD 61
Genre
Pauline
Prison epistle.
Why Colossians was written
Paul addresses false teaching that threatened to diminish Christ by adding angel-worship, ascetic practices, and philosophical speculation, insisting that Christ alone is the image of God and the head of all things.
Outline of Colossians
- 11: Christ as the image of God; Paul's gospel and ministry
- 22: The false teaching refuted; freedom in Christ
- 33–4: The new life — dying and rising with Christ; household code
Key verses
Colossians 1:15-20Colossians 2:9-10Colossians 3:1-3
How Colossians points to Christ
Colossians 1:15-20 is one of the highest Christological passages in the NT — Christ as the image of the invisible God, firstborn over all creation, in whom all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.
How Colossians begins
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,
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