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**Verse 6**
*In all the world;* that is, very generally throughout the then known world.

**Verse 7**
*Epaphras.* Epaphras seems to have gone from Colosse to Rome, to confer with Paul: possibly he was the bearer of the Epistle of the Laodiceans, mentioned in this Epistle. ([Colossians 4:16](../../../kjv/colossians/4/16).) A person named Epaphroditus was sent by the Philippians to Paul. Notwithstanding the similarity of the name, however, this last was probably, but perhaps not certainly, a different person.

**Verse 8**
*Your love in the Spirit;* your Christian fellowship and affection.

**Verse 11**
*With all might;* with all spiritual strength.

**Verse 12**
*Made us meet to be;* prepared us to be.

**Verse 13**
*Translated us;* transferred us.

**Verse 14**
*Through his blood;* through his atoning sufferings.

**Verse 15**
*The image of the invisible God;* imbodying, and manifesting to men, the attributes and characteristics of God; or, as it is expressed in [1 Timothy 3:16](../../../kjv/1-timothy/3/16), God manifest in the flesh.--*The first-born of every creature,* the head of the whole creation; the expression "the first-born" denoting the chief or head.

**Verse 16**
*By him;* by his agency or instrumentality.

**Verse 18**
*The first-born from the dead;* the first who rose from death to immortality. ([1 Corinthians 15:20](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/15/20).)

**Verse 19**
*All fulness;* every mark and token of preëminence.

**Verse 20**
*The blood of his cross;* the blood shed upon the cross; that is, the sufferings endured in that death.--*To reconcile all things;* to open the door of reconciliation for all.

**Verse 21**
*Sometime;* formerly.

**Verse 22**
*In the body of his flesh;* in his earthly body.--*Through death,* through the sufferings and death which he endured in that body.

**Verse 24**
*That which is behind of the afflictions of Christ;* that which remains to me of affliction to be endured in the cause of Christ.

**Verse 26**
*The mystery which hath been hid;* the doctrine of free salvation to all, through faith in Christ. This truth is often designated as a mystery; the knowledge of it having long been withheld from mankind.

**Verse 27**
*The riches of,* &c.--*among the Gentiles;* that is, the exceeding preciousness and value of it to the Gentiles, who were before considered beyond the reach of salvation.

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