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Col. 2:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Eph. 2:1,5,11• ¹And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),
¹¹Wherefore remember that once ye, the nations in [the] flesh, that are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh made by hand, (Eph. 2:1,5,11)

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Ezek. 37:1‑10• (Ezek. 37:1‑10)

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Luke 9:60• ⁶⁰{i}But Jesus said to him,{/i} Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do thou go and announce the kingdom of God. (Luke 9:60)

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Luke 15:24,32• ²⁴for this my son was dead, and has come to life,—was lost, and has been found. And they began to be merry.
³²{i}But{/i} it was right to make merry and rejoice because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found. (Luke 15:24,32)

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Rom. 6:13• ¹³nor be yielding your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive out of [the] dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (Rom. 6:13)

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2 Cor. 5:14‑15• ¹⁴For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that if one died for all, then they all were dead;
¹⁵and he died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for them died and rose. (2 Cor. 5:14‑15)

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Eph. 2:1,5‑6• ¹And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),
⁶and raised together and seated together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus, (Eph. 2:1,5‑6)

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Eph. 5:14• ¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise out of [the] dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:14)

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1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that devoteth herself to pleasure is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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Heb. 6:1• ¹Wherefore leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith Godward, (Heb. 6:1)

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Heb. 9:14• ¹⁴by how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by [the] eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve a living God? (Heb. 9:14)

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James 2:17,20,26• ¹⁷So also faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
²⁰But art thou willing to learn, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
²⁶For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. (James 2:17,20,26)

the uncircumcision.

Eph. 2:11• ¹¹Wherefore remember that once ye, the nations in [the] flesh, that are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh made by hand, (Eph. 2:11)

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Psa. 71:20• (Psa. 71:20)

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Psa. 119:50• (Psa. 119:50)

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John 5:21• ²¹For even as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth, so the Son also quickeneth whom he will; (John 5:21)

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John 6:63• ⁶³It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life; (John 6:63)

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Rom. 4:17• ¹⁷(even as it is written, “A father of many nations I have made thee”) before God whom he believed, that quickeneth the dead and calleth the things that be not as being; (Rom. 4:17)

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Rom. 8:11• ¹¹But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus out of [the] dead dwell in you, he that raised Christ out of [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Rom. 8:11)

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1 Cor. 15:36,45• ³⁶Fool, what thou sowest is not quickened unless it die;
⁴⁵So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening Spirit: (1 Cor. 15:36,45)

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2 Cor. 3:6• ⁶who also made us competent [as] servants of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter killeth but the spirit quickeneth. (2 Cor. 3:6)

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2 Cor. 3• (2 Cor. 3)

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1 Tim. 6:13• ¹³I charge [thee] in the sight of God that keepeth all things alive, and Christ Jesus that witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession, (1 Tim. 6:13)

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Psa. 32:1• (Psa. 32:1)

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Isa. 1:18• (Isa. 1:18)

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Isa. 55:7• (Isa. 55:7)

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Jer. 31:34• (Jer. 31:34)

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Acts 13:38‑39• ³⁸Be it known to you therefore [men-] brethren, that through this [Man] remission of sins is preached to you;
³⁹and from all things from which ye could not in Moses' law be justified, in him every one that believeth is justified. (Acts 13:38‑39)

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2 Cor. 5:19• ¹⁹how that it was God in Christ reconciling [the] world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences, and putting in us the word of the reconciliation. (2 Cor. 5:19)

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Heb. 8:10‑12• ¹⁰Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
¹¹And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all shall inwardly know me from little of them unto great of them;
¹²because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more. (Heb. 8:10‑12)

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1 John 1:7‑9• ⁷But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus [Christ] his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
⁸If we say that we have no sin, we mislead ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:7‑9)

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1 John 2:12• ¹²I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven you for his name's sake. (1 John 2:12)

• Raised up with Him, inasmuch as partaking of that life which He possesses as risen from the dead, we have—like Him and with Him—left all that burden of sin and condemnation behind us with the death from which we have been delivered. (“Colossians 2” by J.N. Darby)

• In Ephesians grace finds us dead and quickens with Christ. In Colossians it finds us alive in sins and brings in death and resurrection, and completes this by quickening with Christ. (“Colossians 2” by J.N. Darby)

• In Ephesians we are seen as seated in the heavenlies, but in Colossians we are seen as risen with Christ, but walking as pilgrims here on earth. We have a new standing out of the old into the new, out of the Adam life into Christ. Christ has borne all of the condemnation for us. Colossians finds us alive in sins but brings in death and resurrection in Christ and with Him. The believer receives liberty as well as life and pardon. (“Colossians 2” by C.E. Lunden)

• Verse 13a refers to believing Gentiles. This is indicated by the words “you” and "your,” for the Colossians were a company of converted Gentiles; whereas, verse 14 refers to believing Jews. This is indicated by the word “us.” (“Hindrances to Carrying Out the Truth of the Mystery: Colossians 2:4-19” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;

W. Kelly Translation

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And you, being dead in offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he quickened you together with him, having forgiven us all the offenses,