Colossians 1:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

Colossians 1:26 —

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Luke 8:10
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Romans 16:25-26
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, …
Matthew 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.
Ephesians 3:3-10
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery;(as I wrote afore in few words, …
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

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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 of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. the mystery--(See on Ep 1:9, 10; Ep 3:5-9). The mystery, once hidden, now revealed, is redemption for the whole Gentile world, as well as for the Jews, “Christ in you (Gentiles) the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). from ages--“from,” according to Alford, refers to time, not “hidden from”: from the time of the ages; still what is meant is that the mystery was hidden from the beings living in those “a…