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  • Colossians 3:14
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 14 But besides all these things, clothe yourselves with love,+ for it is a perfect bond of union.+

  • Colossians 3:14
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 14 ἐπὶ upon πᾶσι all δὲ but τούτοις these (things) τὴν the ἀγάπην, love, ὅ which ἐστιν is σύνδεσμος joint bond τῆς of the τελειότητος. perfection.

  • Colossians 3:14
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 14 But, besides all these things, [clothe yourselves with] love,+ for it is a perfect bond+ of union.*

  • Colossians 3:14
    The Bible in Living English
    • 14 And over all these love, which is the connecting link of perfection.

  • Colossians 3:14
    American Standard Version
    • 14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

  • Colossians 3:14
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 14 And over all these things love, Which is a uniting-bond of completeness;

  • Colossians 3:14
    King James Version
    • 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 3:14 g20.3 12; it-2 253; w17.08 26; w07 12/1 6; g97 9/8 9-10; kl 163-167

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 3:14 w85 3/15 21; yb84 258; yb83 260-261; w82 12/15 12-17, 21-24, 26-27; g80 2/22 4; fl 80; g78 8/8 28; w76 552; gh 162-163; w71 305; w65 205; w64 309; g63 3/22 6; w62 468; w54 572; nh 243; w47 10

  • Colossians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 3:14

      Awake!,

      No. 3 2020 p. 12

      9/8/1997, pp. 9-10

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 253

      The Watchtower (Study),

      8/2017, p. 26

      The Watchtower,

      12/1/2007, p. 6

      Knowledge, pp. 163-167

  • Colossians Study Notes—Chapter 3
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 3:14

      clothe yourselves with love: See study note on Col 3:12.

      perfect bond of union: Lit., “joint bond of the perfection.” Paul’s letter to the Ephesians stresses the power of peace to unite the congregation. (See study note on Eph 4:3.) Here Paul focuses on the superlative quality of love and its power to create unity. The greatest example of love’s power to unite is the bond of union between Jehovah and his only-begotten Son; that is the strongest bond that love has ever forged. (Joh 3:35) On the eve of his death, Jesus begged his Father to create such unity among his followers.​—Joh 17:11, 22; see study note on Joh 17:23.

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