19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
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For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-29)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 salvation by Christ furnishes us with abundant matter of thanksgiving in every view of it: Giving thanks unto the Father , Col. 1:12. He does not discourse of the work of redemption in the natural order o…
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