Colossians 3:3

For ye are dead,.... Not in a natural or corporeal sense, for they were living in the world; nor in a moral sense, for though they had been dead in sins, they were quickened by the grace of God; nor…

For ye are dead - Dead to the world; dead to sin; dead to earthly pleasures. On the meaning of the word “dead,” see the Rom 6:2 note; Eph 2:1 note. The idea of the apostle is, that as Christ became…

For ye are dead - To all hopes of happiness from the present world; and, according to your profession, should feel no more appetite for the things of this life, than he does whose soul is departed…

The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes here to press upon us our duty as inferred…

For The heavenward, Christward, "affection" of the Christian is reasonable, when his spiritual relation to Christ is seen.

ye are dead Lit. and better, ye died; in Christ's death for and to sin. See…