The Apostle Paul
Colossians 3:3KJV·traditional attribution

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

John Calvin Reformed

3. For ye are dead. No one can rise again with Christ, if he has not first died with him. Hence he draws an argument from rising again to dying, as from a consequent to an antecedent, “C’est a dire de ce qui suit a ce qui va deuant;” — “That is to say, from what follows to what comes before.” meaning that we must...

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

Freedom from the ceremonial law does not license you to live as you please; instead, walk closer with God in evangelical obedience. Because Christ sits at the right hand of God, secured our heavenly happiness at vast expense, you must seek and secure what He purchased and prize it above all earthly concerns.

AI summary

Commenting on Colossians 3:1-4

John Gill Reformed Baptist

For ye are dead,.... Not in a natural or corporeal sense, for they were living in the world; nor in a moral sense, for though they had been dead in sins, they were quickened by the grace of God; nor in a legal sense, for all their trespasses were forgiven them; see Col 2:13; but they were dead to the law, moral, ceremonial, and judicial...