Verš 2
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rim 1:7 - To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gal 1:3 - Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ef 1:2 - Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Pt 1:2 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Verš 3
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Ef 1:15 - Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Flp 1:3 - I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
1Sol 1:2 - We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
2Sol 1:3 - We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
Verš 5
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
1Pt 1:4 - To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Verš 6
Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
Mk 4:8 - And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
Jn 15:16 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Verš 7
As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
Kol 4:12 - Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Flm 1:23 - There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
Verš 9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Ef 1:15 - Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
1Kor 1:5 - That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
Verš 10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Gn 17:1 - And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
1Kor 7:20 - Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Ef 4:1 - I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Flp 1:27 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
1Sol 2:12 - That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Jn 15:16 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Verš 13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Ef 2:4 - But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
1Sol 2:12 - That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Mt 3:17 - And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Mt 17:5 - While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
2Pt 1:17 - For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Verš 14
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Sk 20:28 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Ef 1:7 - In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Heb 9:14 - How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
1Pt 1:19 - But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Verš 15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
2Kor 4:4 - In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Flp 2:6 - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Heb 1:3 - Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Zjv 3:14 - And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Verš 16
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Gn 1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Ž 33:6 - By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Jn 1:3 - All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Ef 3:9 - And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Heb 1:2 - Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Verš 18
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Ef 1:22 - And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Ef 4:15 - But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Ef 5:23 - For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
1Kor 15:20 - But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Zjv 1:5 - And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Verš 19
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Jn 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jn 1:16 - And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Kol 2:9 - For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Verš 20
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
2Kor 5:18 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
1Jn 4:10 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Iz 9:7 - Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Jn 16:33 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Sk 10:36 - The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Rim 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Ef 2:14 - For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Verš 22
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Lk 1:75 - In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Ef 1:4 - According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ef 5:27 - That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
2Tim 1:9 - Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Tít 2:12 - Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Verš 23
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Jn 15:6 - If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Verš 24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
2Kor 7:4 - Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
Ef 3:13 - Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Flp 2:17 - Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
2Tim 2:10 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Rim 12:5 - So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
1Kor 12:27 - Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Ef 4:12 - For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ef 5:23 - For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Verš 25
Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Rim 16:25 - Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
Ef 1:9 - Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Ef 3:9 - And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
2Tim 1:10 - But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Tít 1:4 - To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
1Pt 1:20 - Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Verš 26
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Mt 13:11 - He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Verš 27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
2Kor 2:14 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
1Tim 1:1 - Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
Kol 1,7 - Epafras, koloský občan, Pavlov žiak a apoštol svojho rodného mesta i susednej Laodicey a Hierapolu. Pavol ho získal pre Krista v Efeze, kam počas skoro trojročného Pavlovho pobytu prichádzali poslucháči z celej Malej Ázie (Sk 19, 11-12).
Kol 1,9 - Poznanie nie čisto intelektuálne, ale ako prameň čnostného života.
Kol 1,13-20 - Pavol tu vložil krásny hymnus na Kristovu vznešenosť a na dielo jeho spásy; podobný kristologický hymnus je vo Flp 2, 6-11.
Kol 1,15 - Zrodený od večnosti, Boh z Boha, Kristus má absolútny primát v stvorení a vo vykúpení, ktoré je nové, nadprirodzené stvorenie.
Kol 1,16 - "Tróny …" – v židovských náboženských predstavách a terminológii (pórov. Ef 1, 21) je celá hierarchia anjelských bytostí.
Kol 1,18 - Kristus sa svojím vtelením, vykupiteľskou smrťou a zmŕtvychvstaním stáva hlavou vykúpeného tajomného tela, Cirkvi (pórov. Ef 4, 14-16), bránou do nového, večného života. "Prvorodený z mŕtvych" znamená prvý zmŕtvychvstalý.
Kol 1,19 - "Plnosť" – buď ako plnosť božstva (ako v 2, 9), alebo plnosť v zmysle Ef 1, 23, alebo plnosť v zmysle celého vykúpeného vesmíru, čo je skôr v súlade s kontextom.
Kol 1,20 - Kristus svojou vykupiteľskou obetou vovádza do sveta poriadok, ako ho pôvodne určil Boh.
Kol 1,22 - V gréckom texte tu idú po sebe dva výrazy označujúce telo (sóma, sárx). Podľa všetkého Pavol tu myslí na Kristovo fyzické telo, v ktorom sa uskutočnilo zmierenie s Bohom.
Kol 1,24 - Pavol nemieni dopĺňať Kristovo utrpenie, lebo ono malo nekonečnú cenu. Ide o doplnenie utrpenia jeho mystického tela, Cirkvi, na ktorom má mať účasť každý jeho úd.
Kol 1,28 - "My" hovorí Pavol aj za svojich spolupracovníkov.
