Colossians 2:13

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

In Context

12having been buried together with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised together through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

14having blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross.

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Cross References

Luke 9:60Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Luke 15:32But it was necessary to be merry and to rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”

John 6:63It is the Spirit who makes alive; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

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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