Colossians 2:13

And although you were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses

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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 with him in baptism, you have also been raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

14by blotting out the certificate of debt that stood against us with its legal demands; he took it away by nailing it to the cross.

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Cross References

Luke 9:60Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. But yoʋ go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Luke 15:32But it was proper to celebrate and rejoice, for yoʋr brother was dead but is now alive again; he was lost but has now been found.’”

John 6:63It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words I speak to you are spirit and 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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