Colossians 2:11

And in him ye have been circumcised with a circumcision without hands, by casting off the flesh of sins, by a circumcision of the Messiah.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

In Context

10And in him ye are also complete, because he is the head of all principalities and authorities.

12And ye have been buried with him, by baptism; and by it ye have risen with him; while ye believed in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:58We have heard him say: I will destroy this temple, which is made with hands; and in three days I will build another not made with hands.

Acts 7:48Yet the most High lodgeth not in a work of human hands; as saith the prophet:

Romans 2:29But he is a Jew, who is so in what is hidden: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God.

2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that, if our house on earth-this of the body, were dissolved, yet we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

Galatians 2:20And henceforth it is no more I who live, but the Messiah liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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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