Simplified study guide for Col. Ch. 3 in NASB format is here: Col. 3 NASB Interlinear Transliterated Morph2
Pasted in below is text and analysis from Chapter 3 of Colossians. The identifications that begin with an upper case “G,” e.g. G2212, are references to the Greek Strongs number. By doing an online search just using such number, with or without the word “Strongs,” will get you to a page that leads to a deeper definition of the word and all its other uses in the New Testament and even the Greek version of the Old Testament (known as the Septuagint, commonly abbreviated as LXX).
The pasted in resource material comes from multiple sources:
- www.biblegateway.com,
- www.biblehub.com
- Logos software
- Bible app (for iPhone, iPad)
Col. 3:1-11 is list-structured, as I have shown below by bullets and indents. I believe I am at liberty to make such structural portrayals of God’s word. The original mss were almost certainly in all upper case letters with no punctuation, no spaces even between sentences or words. The earliest mss available to us today appear just this way. (Confirm this for yourself by, for example, searching on “Codex Sinaiticus”).
Chapter headings appeared about a thousand years later, and verse identification about 500 years after that. So if you teleported back to Augustine, or Aquinas, or Tyndale, and asked them for insights as to John 3:16, or Romans 8:28, they would not understanding your reference. The texts they knew, and knew them very well. But the order and presentation that we enjoy today was not the norm until well after their time.
