Colossians 2:13

God's Word

You were once dead because of your failures and your uncircumcised corrupt nature. But God made you alive with Christ when he forgave all our failures.

Cross References

Psalm 119:50

This is my comfort in my misery: Your promise gave me a new life.

Psalm 32:1

Blessed is the person whose disobedience is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned.

Psalm 71:20

You have made me endure many terrible troubles. You restore me to life again. You bring me back from the depths of the earth.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come on now, let’s discuss this!” says the Lord. “Though your sins are bright red, they will become as white as snow. Though they are dark red, they will become as white as wool.

Isaiah 55:7

Let wicked people abandon their ways. Let evil people abandon their thoughts. Let them return to the Lord, and he will show compassion to them. Let them return to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

Jeremiah 31:34

No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, ‘Know the Lord.’ All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” declares the Lord, “because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.”

Luke 15:24

My son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost but has been found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32

But we have something to celebrate, something to be happy about. This brother of yours was dead but has come back to life. He was lost but has been found.’ ”

Luke 9:60

But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You must go everywhere and tell about God’s kingdom.”

John 5:21

In the same way that the Father brings back the dead and gives them life, the Son gives life to anyone he chooses.

John 6:63

Life is spiritual. Your physical existence doesn’t contribute to that life. The words that I have spoken to you are spiritual. They are life.

Romans 4:17

as Scripture says: “I have made you a father of many nations.” Abraham believed when he stood in the presence of the God who gives life to dead people and calls into existence things that don’t even exist.

Romans 6:13

Never offer any part of your body to sin’s power. No part of your body should ever be used to do any ungodly thing. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have come back from death and are now alive. Offer all the parts of your body to God. Use them to do everything that God approves of.

Romans 8:11

Does the Spirit of the one who brought Jesus back to life live in you? Then the one who brought Christ back to life will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.

1 Corinthians 15:36

You fool! The seed you plant doesn’t come to life unless it dies first.

1 Corinthians 15:45

This is what Scripture says: “The first man, Adam, became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

2 Corinthians 5:19

In other words, God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. He didn’t hold people’s faults against them, and he has given us this message of restored relationships to tell others.

Ephesians 2:1

You were once dead because of your failures and sins.

Ephesians 2:11

Remember that once you were not Jewish physically. Those who called themselves “the circumcised” because of what they had done to their bodies called you “the uncircumcised.”

Ephesians 5:14

because light makes everything easy to see. That’s why it says: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Colossians 2:12

This happened when you were placed in the tomb with Christ through baptism. In baptism you were also brought back to life with Christ through faith in the power of God, who brought him back to life.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead although she is still alive.

1 Timothy 6:13

In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and in the sight of Christ Jesus, who gave a good testimony in front of Pontius Pilate,

Hebrews 6:1

With this in mind, we should stop going over the elementary truths about Christ and move on to topics for more mature people. We shouldn’t repeat the basics about turning away from the useless things we did and the basics about faith in God.

Hebrews 9:14

The blood of Christ, who had no defect, does even more. Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself to God and cleansed our consciences from the useless things we had done. Now we can serve the living God.

James 2:17

In the same way, faith by itself is dead if it doesn’t cause you to do any good things.

James 2:20

You fool! Do you have to be shown that faith which does nothing is useless?

James 2:26

A body that doesn’t breathe  is dead. In the same way faith that does nothing is dead.

1 John 2:12

I’m writing to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ.