Colossians 2:12

You were buried with him in baptism, and you were raised with him through your trust in what God did by raising him from the dead.

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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

11You were “circumcised” in him but not by human hands. You have been set free from sinful human nature by the “circumcision” Christ performed.

13And even though you were dead because of your sins and being physically “uncircumcised,” he brought you to life together with him. He has forgiven us all our sins.

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Cross References

John 1:12But to all those who accepted him and trusted in him, he gave the right to become God's children.

Acts 2:24But God raised him back to life, freeing him from the burden of death, because death did not have the power to keep him a prisoner.

Romans 4:24They were for us too, those of us who will be considered as right, since we trust in God who raised our Lord Jesus from the dead.

Romans 6:8Since we died with Christ, we have confidence that we will also live with him,

1 Corinthians 12:13For it was through one Spirit that we were all baptized into one body. It doesn't matter whether we are Jews or Greeks, slave or free—we all were given the one Spirit to drink.

Galatians 3:27All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with 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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