GOD MADE YOU ALIVE WITH CHRIST

 

So then, just as you Received Christ Jesus as Lord,

Continue to live your lives In Him,

Rooted and Built Up In Him,

Strengthened in the Faith as you were Taught,

And Overflowing with Thankfulness.

See to it that No One Takes You Captive

Through Hollow and Deceptive Philosophy,

Which depends on Human Tradition

And Elemental Spiritual Forces of this World

RATHER THAN ON CHRIST.

For In Christ

ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE DEITY LIVES IN BODILY FORM,

And In Christ you have been brought to Fullness.

HE IS THE HEAD OVER EVERY POWER AND AUTHORITY.

In Him you were also Circumcised with the Circumcision

NOT PERFORMED BY HUMAN HANDS.

Your Whole Self Ruled by the Flesh WAS PUT OFF

When you were Circumcised by Christ.

Having been Buried with Him in Baptism,

In which you were also Raise with Him

Through your Faith in the Working of God,

Who Raised Him from the Dead.

When you were Dead in your Sins

And in the Uncircumcision of your Flesh,

GOD MADE YOU ALIVE WITH CHRIST.

HE FORGAVE US ALL OUR SINS,

Having Canceled the Charge of our Legal Indebtedness,

NAILING IT TO THE CROSS

And having Disarmed the Powers and Authorities,

He made a Public Spectacle of them.

TRIUMPHING OVER THEM BY THE CROSS.

(Colossians 2: 6-15)