“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God — 'Word of Christ' (logos Christou) indwells communities. 'Dwell richly' (enoikeō perisseuō) suggests abundance: Christ-word saturates. 'Teaching and admonishing' (didaskō, noutheteō) build community. 'Singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs' shows liturgical life: music expresses theology. 'With thankfulness in your hearts to God' frames singing as gratitude-expression.
Church Fathers on Colossians 3:16
Having exhorted them to be thankful, he shows also the way, that, of which I have lately discoursed to you. And what does he say? “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly”; or rather not this way alone, but another also. For I indeed said that we ought to reckon up those who have suffered things more terrible, and those who have undergone sufferings more grievous than ours, and to give thanks that such have not fallen to our lot; but what does he say? “Let the word of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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