Colossians 2:13

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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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 with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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Cross References

Psalms 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,you will let me live.You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Isaiah 1:18"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord:"Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Jeremiah 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord'; for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest," says the Lord: "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more."

Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."

Luke 15:32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"

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