Colossians

Colossians was written by the apostle Paul, around AD 60, while imprisoned (4.3,10,18), possibly while in Rome or Ephesus. The recipient of the letter is given in 1.1, “to the [Church] in Colossae”. The majority of the Christians in Colossae were gentiles, although there were influential Jewish settlements there as well. The main reason Paul writes to the Church at Colossae is to stop the spread of a false teaching that had crept up in the Church, which Paul probably found out about through his fellow prisoner Epaphras (1.7). We cannot be certain what the false teaching was exactly, but it seems to be a type of proto-gnostic, Jewish, and Pagan syncretism with the Christian faith.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4