Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ ¹  dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace ²  in your hearts to God.

De 6:6-9; De 11:18-20; 1Ki 3:9-12,28; 1Ch 25:7; Ne 12:46; Job 23:12; Ps 28:7; Ps 30:11,12; Ps 32:7; Ps 47:6,7; Ps 63:4-6; Ps 71:23; Ps 103:1,2; Ps 119:11; Ps 119:54; Ps 138:1; Pr 2:6,7; Pr 14:8; Pr 18:1; So 1:1; Isa 5:1; Isa 10:2; Isa 26:1; Isa 30:29; Jer 15:16; Mt 26:30; Lu 2:51; Joh 5:39,40; Joh 15:7; Ro 15:14; 1Co 14:15; 1Co 14:26; Eph 1:17; Eph 5:17; Eph 5:19; Col 1:9; Col 1:28; Col 3:23; Col 4:6; 1Th 4:18; 1Th 5:11,12; 2Th 3:15; 1Ti 6:17; 2Ti 3:15; Tit 3:6; Heb 4:12,13; Heb 12:12-15; Jas 1:5; Jas 3:17; Jas 5:13; 1Pe 1:11,12; 1Jo 2:14,24,27; 2Jo 1:2; Re 5:9; Re 14:3; Re 15:3; Re 19:10

¹ tc Since “the word of Christ” occurs nowhere else in the NT, two predictable variants arose: “word of God” and “word of the Lord.” Even though some of the witnesses for these variants are impressive (κυρίου [kuriou, “of the Lord”] in א* I 1175 pc bo; θεοῦ [qeou, “of God”] in A C* 33 104 323 945 al), the reading Χριστοῦ (Cristou, “of Christ”) is read by an excellent cross-section of witnesses (Ì⁴⁶ א² B C² D F G Ψ 075 1739 1881 Ï lat sa). On both internal and external grounds, Χριστοῦ is strongly preferred.

² tn Grk “with grace”; “all” is supplied as it is implicitly related to all the previous instructions in the verse.