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You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
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From Death to Life
Before Christ, we were spiritually "dead." Commentators explain this isn't just about bad behavior, but a state of total separation from God, the source of life. This condition was marked by our sins and our "uncircumcision," which scholars identify as a symbol of being outside God's covenant and having a corrupt nature. The gospel's power is that God makes us alive with Christ, a spiritual resurrection that mirrors His physical one.
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Colossians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And you, being dead in your sins. (See Barnes on Ephesians 2:1).
And the uncircumcision of your flesh. That is, Gentiles, …
And you (κα υμας). Emphatic position, object of the verb συνεζωοποιησεν (did he quicken) and repeated (second υμας). You Gentiles …
19th Century
Anglican
And you . . .—Here, exactly as in Ephesians 2:1-18, there is a remarkable intermixture of the word “we” and the word “you,” the fo…
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Baptist
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. An…
In the closing words of v.12 Paul mentioned God’s raising Christ from the dead. Now he assures his readers that in Christ they share the resurrecti…
16th Century
Protestant
And you, when you were dead. He admonishes the Colossians to recognize what he had addressed in a general way as applicable to themselves,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you being dead in your sins Not corporeally, though sin had subjected them to a corporeal death, and their bodie…
There is a philosophy that rightly exercises our reasonable faculties: a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God and conf…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, Paul warned the faithful against the deceptions of worldly philosophers; here he instructs and warns them against those heretics who wanted …
