Colossians 2:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 2:5 —

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1 Corinthians 5:3-4
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, …
1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
2 Peter 3:17-18
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. …
1 Peter 5:9
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-12)

The apostle cautions the Colossians against deceivers (Col. 2:4): And this I say lest any man beguile you with enticing words; and Col. 2:8; Lest any man spoil you. He insists so much upon the perfection of Christ and the gospel revelation, to preserve them from the ensnaring insinuations of those who would corrupt their principles. Note, 1. The way in which Satan spoils souls is by beguiling them…

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

(vv. 5)

5. For--argument against their suffering themselves to be beguiled, drawn from a regard to his personal authority as though he were present. joying and beholding--beholding with joy. order--your good order; answering to “knit together” (Col 2:2) as a well-organized body; the same Greek as that for knit together, is used of the body” of the Church compacted,” in Ep 4:16. Compare 1Co 14:33, 40. stea…