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No Sacred/Secular Divide
Commentators stress that "whatsoever you do in word or deed" is an all-encompassing command. This principle erases any line between "religious" and "secular" activities. As Charles Spurgeon suggests, if you cannot do an activity "in the name of the Lord Jesus"—as His representative and for His glory—then you should not do it at all. This makes your entire life an act of worship.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 3:17
18th Century
Theologian
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed. Whatever you say or do—whether relating to temporal affairs or to religion—the command here extends …
AT Robertson
On Colossians 3:17
Whatsoever ye do (παν οτ εαν ποιητε). Indefinite relative (everything whatever) with εαν and the present active subjunctive, a com…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 3:17
19th Century
Bishop
All in the name of the Lord Jesus.—Compare here the more general exhortation of 1 Corinthians 10:31, Whether you e…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 3:16–17
19th Century
Preacher
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 3:17
Paul now gives us a kind of summary. There are various ways of interpreting “do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.” Some understand the meaning …
John Calvin
On Colossians 3:17
16th Century
Theologian
And whatever you do. We have already explained these things, and what precedes them, in the Epistle to the Ephesians, where the same thing…
John Gill
On Colossians 3:17
17th Century
Pastor
And whatsoever you do in word or deed
Whether in preaching the word of Christ, in hearing the Gospel, in singing psa…
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 3:12–17
17th Century
Minister
We must not only do no harm to anyone, but do what good we can to all. Those who are the elect of God, holy and beloved, ought to be humble and com…