Colossians 2:5-15

5 For even though I am 1absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your 2good discipline and the 3stability of your faith in Christ.
6 Therefore as you have received 4Christ Jesus the Lord, so 5walk in Him,
7 having been firmly 6rooted and now being 7built up in Him and 8established in your faith, just as you 9were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.
8 10See to it that no one takes you captive through 11philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the 12elementary principles of the world, rather than * according to Christ.
9 For in Him all the 13fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
10 and in Him you have been 14made complete, and 15He is the head over all 16rule and authority;
11 and in Him 17you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of 18the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
12 having been 19buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also 20raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who 21raised Him from the dead.
13 When you were 22dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He 23made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
14 having canceled out 24the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and 25He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 When He had 26disarmed the 27rulers and authorities, He 28made a public display of them, having 29triumphed over them through Him.

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Cross References 29

  • 1. 1 Corinthians 5:3
  • 2. 1 Corinthians 14:40
  • 3. 1 Peter 5:9
  • 4. Galatians 3:26
  • 5. Colossians 1:10
  • 6. Ephesians 3:17
  • 7. 1 Corinthians 3:9; Ephesians 2:20
  • 8. 1 Corinthians 1:8
  • 9. Ephesians 4:21
  • 10. 1 Corinthians 8:9; 1 Corinthians 10:12; Galatians 5:15; Hebrews 3:12
  • 11. Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 2:23; 1 Timothy 6:20
  • 12. Galatians 4:3; Colossians 2:20
  • 13. 2 Corinthians 5:19; Colossians 1:19
  • 14. Ephesians 3:19
  • 15. Ephesians 1:21
  • 16. 1 Corinthians 15:24; Ephesians 3:10; Colossians 2:15
  • 17. Romans 2:29; Ephesians 2:11
  • 18. Romans 6:6; Romans 7:24; Galatians 5:24; Colossians 3:5
  • 19. Romans 6:4
  • 20. Romans 6:5; Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:13; Colossians 3:1
  • 21. Acts 2:24
  • 22. Ephesians 2:1
  • 23. Ephesians 2:5; Colossians 2:12
  • 24. Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:20
  • 25. 1 Peter 2:24
  • 26. Ephesians 4:8
  • 27. John 12:31; 1 Corinthians 15:24; Ephesians 3:10; Colossians 2:10
  • 28. Ephesians 4:8
  • 29. 2 Corinthians 2:14

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