Colossians 2:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Dead

The uncircumcision

Ephesians 2:11

He

Having

1 John 2:12

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

Dead

Then He answered him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but you go on and continue to spread the good news of the kingdom of God."

because this son of mine was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found!' So they began to celebrate.

and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.

For the love of Christ continuously constrains me, because I am convinced that as One died for all, all have died,

You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."

while a widow who gives herself up to luxury is really dead though still alive.

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

how much more surely will the blood of Christ, who with an eternal Spirit gave Himself a spotless offering to God, purify your consciences from works that mean mere death, to serve the ever living God?

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

The uncircumcision

So remember that you were once heathen in a physical sense, called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcised -- though only in a physical sense, by human hands.

He

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." That is, the promise is in force in the sight of God in whom he put his faith, the God who can bring the dead to life and can call to Himself the things that do not exist as though they did.

If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead has His home within you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through His Spirit that has His home within you.

You foolish man! the seed that you sow never comes to life unless it dies first;

He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Having

So, my brothers, you must understand that through Him the forgiveness of your sins is now proclaimed to you,

For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation.

'For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel in those days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. And nevermore will each one need to teach his fellow-citizen,

But if we continue to live in the light, just as He is in the light, we have unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son continues to cleanse us from every sin.

I am writing to you, dear children, because for His sake your sins have been forgiven.

General references

You too used to practice these sins, when you used to live that sort of life.