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Colossians 3:11

Colossians 3:11
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew,.... That is, either in Christ, after whose image the new man is created; see Gal 5:6 or in the new man, and with respect to

regeneration; or in the whole…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew - See this fully explained in the notes at Gal 3:28. The meaning here is, that all are on a level; that there is no distinction of nation in the church; that all…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew - In which new creation no inquiry is made what nation the persons belonged to, or from what ancestry they had sprung, whether in Judea or Greece.

Circumcision nor…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Colossians 3:8-11

As we are to mortify inordinate appetites, so we are to mortify inordinate passions (Col 3:8): But now you also put off all these, anger wrath, malice; for these are contrary to the design of the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

where "in" "the new Man." This phrase is a further suggestion of the inner reference to Christ as the New Man which we find in this passage and the Ephesian parallel. Certainly the language of…