144 Cf. Col. 1:21-22.
142Deissmann describes ἡ εἰϱήνη τοῦ Xϱɩστοῦ as the “mystical genitive”— the sense of the phrase being “the peace which is yours in union with Christ” (Paul, p. 163).
143Cf. 1 Cor. 7:15. With the words “you were called in one body” cf. the fuller expression of Eph. 4:4. The church is the community of those whom God has called (cf. 1 Cor. 1:9; 1 Thess. 2:12).
144Cf. Col. 1:21-22.
145Cf. Rom. 5:1.
146Cf. Mark 9:50; 2 Cor. 13:11; 1 Thess. 5:13—and not only with one another but, as far as possible, with everybody (Rom. 12:18).
147Gk. εὐϰαϱɩστέω, with which cf. εὐϰἀϱɩστοɩ γίνεσθε here.
148This takes the genitive in ὁ λόγος τοῦ Xϱɩστοῦ to be subjective (the word proceeding from Christ); less probably it might be objective (the word concerning Christ), with which cf. Rom. 10:17, δɩὰ 
Xϱɩστοῦ.