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Colossians 2:9

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

KJV

ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς,

Greek NT

quia in ipso inhabitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis corporaliter :

Vulgate

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

ASV

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
θεότης
theotes
noun · 1×
κατοικέω
katoikeo
verb · 45×
πλήρωμα
pleroma
noun · 17×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σωματικῶς
somatikos
adverb · 1×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Themes

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

19 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§484The Annunciation to Mary inaugurates "the fullness of time",119 The time of the fulfilment of God's promises and preparations. Mary was invited to conceive him in whom the "whole fullness of deity" would dwell "bodily".120 The divine response to her question, "How can this be, since I know not man?", was given by the power of the Spirit: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you."121
§515The Gospels were written by men who were among the first to have the faith174 and wanted to share it with others. Having known in faith who Jesus is, they could see and make others see the traces of his mystery in all his earthly life. From the swaddling clothes of his birth to the vinegar of his Passion and the shroud of his Resurrection, everything in Jesus' life was a sign o…
§722The Holy Spirit prepared Mary by his grace. It was fitting that the mother of him in whom "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily"102 should herself be "full of grace." She was, by sheer grace, conceived without sin as the most humble of creatures, the most capable of welcoming the inexpressible gift of the Almighty. It was quite correct for the angel Gabriel to greet her as…
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Texts of Holy Scripture used by these heretics to support their opinions. 1. Such, then, is the account they give of what took place within the Pleroma; such the calamities that flowed from the passion which seized upon the æon who has been named, and who was within a little of perishing by being absorbed in the universal substance, through her inquisitive searching after the F…
31. Of old time He was wont to come to the Saints individually, and to hallow those who rightly received Him; but neither, when they were begotten was it said that He had become man, nor, when they suffered, was it said that He Himself suffered. But when He came among us from Mary once at the end of the ages for the abolition of sin (for so it was pleasing to the Father, to sen…
Summa Theologica · 3 passages
Is it fitting for God to become incarnate? Was it necessary for the restoration of the human race? If there had been no sin, would God have become incarnate? Did He become incarnate to take away original sin rather than actual? Was it fitting for God to become incarnate from the beginning of the world? Should His Incarnation have been deferred to the end of the world? Article 1…
Did the union of the Word Incarnate take place in the nature? Did it take place in the Person? Did it take place in the suppositum or hypostasis? Is the Person or hypostasis of Christ composite after the Incarnation? Did any union of body and soul take place in Christ? Was the human nature united to the Word accidentally? Is the union itself something created? Is it the same as…
Did Christ have any knowledge besides the Divine? Did He have the knowledge which the blessed or comprehensors have? Did He have an imprinted or infused knowledge? Did He have any acquired knowledge? Article 1. Whether Christ had any knowledge besides the Divine? Objection 1. It would seem that in Christ there was no knowledge except the Divine. For knowledge is necessary that …
Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us one and the same Son, the self-same perfect in Godhead, the self-same perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man.
Q. If his humanity is not present wherever his divinity is, then aren't the two natures of Christ separated from each other? A. Certainly not. Since divinity is not limited and is present everywhere, it is evident that Christ's divinity is surely beyond the bounds of the humanity he has taken on, but at the same time his divinity is in and remains personally united to his human…
We further believe and teach that the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, was predestinated or foreordained from eternity by the Father to be the Savior of the world. And we believe that he was born, not only when he assumed flesh of the Virgin Mary, and not only before the foundation of the world was laid, but by the Father before all eternity in an inexpressible manner. The So…
What is common and general is predicated of the included particulars. Essence, then, is common as being a form , while subsistence is particular. It is particular not as though it had part of the nature and had not the rest, but particular in a numerical sense, as being individual. For it is in number and not in nature that the difference between subsistences is said to lie. Es…
We believe the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, to have emptied Himself, that is, to have taken into His own Person human flesh, being conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Ever-Virgin Mary, and having become Man without ceasing to be God. Two natures, the Divine and the human, are hypostatically, inseparably, unconfusedly, and unchangeably united in one Person, whe…
The Formula affirms the communication of attributes (communicatio idiomatum) between Christ's two natures in the one person. The human nature truly shares in the divine majesty because of the personal union. It denies the Reformed position that limits Christ's human nature to a finite locality in heaven, and it denies that the two natures are mixed or confused. The whole Christ…
Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of the substance of His mother, born in the world. Perfect God and perfec…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 23:25 — For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
  • 1John 2:5 — But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
  • 1John 5:7 — For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
  • 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
  • 1Tim 3:16 — And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up int
  • 2Chr 7:16 — For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
  • 2Cor 5:19 — To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
  • 2Cor 5:19 — To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
  • 2Thess 1:12 — That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
  • Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
  • Col 2:2 — That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of C
  • Deut 12:5 — But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
  • Eph 1:23 — Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
  • Eph 3:19 — And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
  • Eph 4:10 — He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
  • Exod 23:21 — Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
  • Ezek 37:27 — My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Isa 7:14 — Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  • John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  • John 1:16 — And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
  • John 2:21 — But he spake of the temple of his body.
  • John 2:21 — But he spake of the temple of his body.
  • John 3:34 — For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
  • John 10:30 — I and my Father are one.
  • John 10:38 — But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
  • John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
  • John 14:9 — Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
  • John 14:10 — Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
  • John 14:20 — At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
  • John 14:20 — At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
  • John 16:15 — All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
  • John 17:10 — And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
  • John 17:21 — That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
  • John 17:23 — I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
  • Luke 3:22 — And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
  • Matt 1:23 — Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
  • Ps 68:18 — Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
  • Rom 1:20 — For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: