Colossians

American  

[kuh-losh-uhnz] / kəˈlɒʃ ənz /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. a book of the New Testament, written by Paul. Col.

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Colossians British  

/ kəˈlɒʃənz /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) a book of the New Testament (in full The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians )

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Example Sentences

A reading from the Epistle to the Colossians.

From BBC • May 5, 2023

“There’s a verse that we used from the book of Colossians, chapter three, verse 23,” Ryan said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2022

After looking into some other options, Colossians 3:12-14, seemed like a good fit, closing with, “…over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021

As the Apostle Paul says in Colossians 3:8-9, “But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language. . . . Do not lie to each other.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2017

Jesus Christ being victorious, releas’d those Souls out of the Prison in which they were languishing, as St. Paul affirms, when he says to the Colossians, Chap. ii.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von