Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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Gill's Exposition
Giving thanks unto the Father,.... To God the Father, as the Vulgate Latin and the Syriac versions read the clause; and the Complutensian edition, and some copies, "God and the Father"; who is both…
Barnes' Notes
Giving thanks to the Father - This is another mode by which we may “walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing” Col 1:10; to wit, by rendering appropriate thanks to God for his mercy. The particular…
Adam Clarke
Giving thanks unto the Father - Knowing that ye have nothing but what ye have received from his mere mercy, and that in point of merit ye can never claim any thing from him.
Which hath made us meet -…
Here is a summary of the doctrine of the gospel concerning the great work of our redemption by Christ. It comes in here not as the matter of a sermon, but as the matter of a thanksgiving; for our…
Cambridge Bible
giving thanks as the disciple is to do "in everything" (1Th 5:18). So would the deep-felt "joy" be specially expressed. See on Col 1:3 above.
unto the Father Who is always revealed as the ultimate…
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