If ye died (ε απεθανετε). Condition of the first class, assumed as true, ε and second aorist active indicative of αποθνησκω, to di…

Wherefore. In view of all that has been said. If it is true that you are really dead to the world, why do you act as if you still…

If you are dead with Christ.—The whole idea of the death with Christ and resurrection with Him is summed up by St. Paul in Romans …

Intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head, from which all the body by j…

When one becomes a Christian, one’s connection with the world of legal and ascetic ordinances is severed. Asceticism, then, is not in keeping with …

If you are dead. He had previously said that the ordinances were fastened to the cross of Christ (Colossians 2:14). He now emp…

Wherefore if you are dead with Christ
Or "seeing you are dead with Christ"; for these words do not signify any doubt…

It looked like humility to appeal to angels, as if people were conscious of their unworthiness to speak directly to God. But it is not justifiable;…

Above, Paul showed that the law was fulfilled in Christ because of the circumcision he received, for this is an acknowledgment of the law. Here, he…