Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with gratitude.

You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.

Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful.