Colossae

We may account for the presence of Jews at Colossae which is suggested in the Epistle, by remembering its convenient position and its trade speciality.

The Books of the New Testament Leighton Pullan 1902

To the church in Colossae, he exhorted: “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving” Colossians 4:2.

HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

In an interesting contrast, what Paul told the church in Ephesus was the exact opposite of what he said to believers in Colossae.

Surviving in an Angry World Charles F. Stanley 2010

To the church in Colossae, he exhorted: “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving” Colossians 4:2.

HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

Paul used this image so the people of Colossae would understand the importance of being closely guarded against false teachers.

Babes with a Beatitude Linda P. Kozar 2009

An interesting passage in the letter to the church at Colossae indicates that the cross of Christ laid bare the powers that opposed him.

Chuck Gutenson: What Would It Take? 2008

In this letter Paul tells the people of Colossae to make Christ the center of their faith and to put aside their superstitions.

Colossians. 1999

(SB) [184] The ` road from Jerusalem ', one would suppose, would be the main road eastwards through Colossae, etc., but the suggestion that Mary's house was ` nearer the sea' than Ephesus (p. 160) indicates a road southward along the coast.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

Others, too, were with him, but none perhaps was dearer to S. Paul than a certain slave, Onesimus, who had fled from his master, Philemon, in Colossae.

The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

Cor.ix. 6 that he adhered to Paul's principle of self-support in his mission work, and from Col.iv. 10 that his name was well known and respected at Colossae about A.D.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various