And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent.

buried with him in baptism, in which also ye have been raised up together with him by faith, the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

And you, who were dead in sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened with him, freely forgiving you all trespasses;

If then ye have been dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye dogmatically taught,

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.