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Colossians 2:13

When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

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ASV

And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

KJV

And 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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22 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ΚαὶKaiAndG2532 →
ὑμᾶςhumasyouG4771 →
νεκροὺςnekrousdeadG3498 →
ὄνταςontasbeingG1510 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
τοῖςtoistheG3588 →
παραπτώμασινparaptōmasintrespassesG3900 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
τῇtēain theG3588 →
ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobustiauncircumcisionG203 →
τῆςtēsof theG3588 →
σαρκὸςsarkosfleshG4561 →
ὑμῶν,humōnof you,G4771 →
συνεζωοποίησενsunezōopoiēsenHe made alive togetherG4806 →
ὑμᾶςhumasyouG4771 →
σὺνsunwithG4862 →
αὐτῷautōHimG846 →
χαρισάμενοςcharisamenoshaving forgivenG5483 →
ἡμῖνhēminusG3165 →
πάνταpantaallG3956 →
τὰtatheG3588 →
παραπτώματα·paraptōmatatransgressions;G3900 →

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Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.Ephesians 2:5–6made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!Genesis 2:17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”Philippians 3:10I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,Romans 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.Ephesians 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,Psalms 85:2You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. SelahRevelation 3:1“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.Matthew 8:22But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”2 Corinthians 5:19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.Hebrews 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!John 5:25Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.2 Corinthians 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.Ephesians 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His graceEphesians 2:11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—1 John 1:7–9But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.Colossians 1:14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.Romans 11:17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,

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About Colossians

The Word Made Flesh — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
The Word Made Flesh — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
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