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Complete in Christ
Commentators unanimously affirm that being 'in him' means believers are made spiritually complete. Because Christ possesses the fullness of God (Col. 2:9), those united to Him have everything necessary for salvation, wisdom, and spiritual life. As scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Spurgeon note, there is no need to supplement faith with human philosophy, religious rituals, or other spiritual sources.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 2:10
18th Century
Theologian
And you are complete in him. You have no need, for the purposes of salvation, of any aid to be derived from the philosophy of the Greeks o…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 2:10
Ye are made full (εστε πεπληρωμενο). Periphrastic perfect passive indicative of πληροω, but only one predicate, not two. Christ is…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 2:10
19th Century
Bishop
Ye are complete.—Literally, you have been filled up in His fullness, as in John 1:16. So St. Paul had prayed for…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 2:8–10
19th Century
Preacher
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 2:10
This statement crowns Paul’s argument. Because Christ is fully God and really human, believers “are made full,” i.e., share in his fullness; “in hi…
John Calvin
On Colossians 2:10
16th Century
Theologian
And ye are complete in him. He adds that this perfect essence of Deity, which is in Christ, is profitable to us in this respect: that we a…
John Gill
On Colossians 2:10
17th Century
Pastor
And you are complete in him
Or "filled up", or "filled full" in him; that is, are perfect in him: saints are in Chri…
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 2:8–17
17th Century
Minister
There is a philosophy that rightly exercises our reasonable faculties: a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God and conf…