Colossians and Philemon Quotes

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
― Paul the Apostle, Colossians and Philemon

“Someone who truly understands who he or she is in Christ is further along the road to genuine holiness than someone who, in confusion, anxiously imagines that the new life is the result, rather than the starting-point, of the daily battle with temptation.”
― N.T. Wright, Colossians and Philemon: An Introduction and Commentary

“Those who choose to live without God will one day find that they have forfeited their likeness to him.”
― N.T. Wright, TNTC Colossians & Philemon: An Introduction and Survey