Colossians 2:12

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

In Context

11In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

13And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

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Cross References

John 1:12To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

Acts 2:24But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

Romans 4:24But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

Romans 6:8But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

1 Corinthians 12:13For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.

Galatians 3:27For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.

Matthew Henry on Colossians 2:5-13

The Glory of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and… Read the whole commentary →

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