Colossians 2:12

when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.

Montgomery New Testament

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 him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ’s own circumcision,

13And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,

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Cross References

John 1:12But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;

Acts 2:24but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold him.

Romans 4:24For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

Romans 6:8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

1 Corinthians 12:13And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Galatians 3:27For all 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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