Colossians 2:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

When you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and you were raised up with him because of your faith in God’s power. God’s power was shown when he raised Christ from death.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:21

And that water is like baptism, which now saves you. Baptism is not the washing of dirt from the body. It is asking God for a clean conscience. It saves you because Jesus Christ was raised from death.

Acts 2:24

Jesus suffered the pain of death, but God made him free. He raised him from death. There was no way for death to hold him.

Ephesians 3:17

I pray that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. I pray that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.

Romans 4:24

They were also written for us. God will also accept us because we believe. We believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from death.

Ephesians 4:5

There is one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.

Ephesians 2:8

I mean that you have been saved by grace because you believed. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But Christ really has been raised from death—the first one of all those who will be raised.

Hebrews 12:2

We must never stop looking to Jesus. He is the leader of our faith, and he is the one who makes our faith complete. He suffered death on a cross. But he accepted the shame of the cross as if it were nothing because of the joy he could see waiting for him. And now he is sitting at the right side of God’s throne.

Philippians 1:29

God has blessed you in ways that serve Christ. He allowed you to believe in Christ. But that is not all. He has also given you the honor of suffering for Christ. Both of these bring glory to Christ.

Ephesians 5:14

Yes, everything is made clear by the light. This is why we say, “Wake up, you who are sleeping! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 3:7

By God’s special gift of grace, I became a servant to tell that Good News. He gave me that grace by using his power.

1 Corinthians 12:13

Some of us are Jews and some of us are not; some of us are slaves and some of us are free. But we were all baptized to become one body through one Spirit. And we were all given the one Spirit.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died and you became free from the law through the body of Christ. Now you belong to someone else. You belong to the one who was raised from death. We belong to Christ so that we can be used in service to God.

Acts 14:27

When Paul and Barnabas arrived, they gathered the church together. They told them everything God had used them to do. They said, “God opened a door for the non-Jewish people to believe!”

Luke 17:5

The apostles said to the Lord, “Give us more faith!”

Acts 2:32

So Jesus is the one God raised from death. We are all witnesses of this. We saw him.

Colossians 1:29

To do this, I work and struggle using the great strength that Christ gives me. That strength is working in my life.

Colossians 2:13

You were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self. But God gave you new life together with Christ. He forgave all our sins.