Colossians 2:11-13
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
11 In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts).
12 [Thus [a]you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in [your] baptism, in which you were also raised with Him [[b]to a new life] through [your] faith in the working of God [[c]as displayed] when He raised Him up from the dead.
13 And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions,
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- Colossians 2:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies: “The aorist tense puts the burial as contemporaneous with the circumcision.”
- Colossians 2:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- Colossians 2:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
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