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Key Themes
- The supremacy and sufficiency of Christ (1:15-20 — the Christ-hymn)
- Christ as image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation
- All things created in him, through him, for him
- Paul's struggle for the Colossians (1:24-2:5)
- Against the Colossian 'philosophy' (2:8-23) — likely proto-gnostic syncretism
- Put off the old self, put on the new (3:1-17)