Colossians 2:13

New Century Version

When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins.

Cross References

Psalm 119:50

When I suffer, this comforts me: Your promise gives me life.

Psalm 32:1

Happy is the person whose sins are forgiven, whose wrongs are pardoned.

Psalm 71:20

You have given me many troubles and bad times, but you will give me life again. When I am almost dead, you will keep me alive.

Isaiah 1:18

The Lord says, “Come, let us talk about these things. Though your sins are like scarlet, they can be as white as snow. Though your sins are deep red, they can be white like wool.

Isaiah 55:7

The wicked should stop doing wrong, and they should stop their evil thoughts. They should return to the Lord so he may have mercy on them. They should come to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

Jeremiah 31:34

People will no longer have to teach their neighbors and relatives to know the Lord, because all people will know me, from the least to the most important,” says the Lord. “I will forgive them for the wicked things they did, and I will not remember their sins anymore.”

Luke 15:24

My son was dead, but now he is alive again! He was lost, but now he is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32

We had to celebrate and be happy because your brother was dead, but now he is alive. He was lost, but now he is found.’ ”

Luke 9:60

But Jesus said to him, “Let the people who are dead bury their own dead. You must go and tell about the kingdom of God.”

John 5:21

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he wants to.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh doesn’t give life. The words I told you are spirit, and they give life.

Romans 4:17

As it is written in the Scriptures: “I am making you a father of many nations.” This is true before God, the God Abraham believed, the God who gives life to the dead and who creates something out of nothing.

Romans 6:13

Do not offer the parts of your body to serve sin, as things to be used in doing evil. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good.

Romans 8:11

God raised Jesus from the dead, and if God’s Spirit is living in you, he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from the dead, and he will give life through his Spirit that lives in you.

1 Corinthians 15:36

Foolish person! When you sow a seed, it must die in the ground before it can live and grow.

1 Corinthians 15:45

It is written in the Scriptures: “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam became a spirit that gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 5:19

God was in Christ, making peace between the world and himself. In Christ, God did not hold the world guilty of its sins. And he gave us this message of peace.

Ephesians 2:1

In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God.

Ephesians 2:11

You were not born Jewish. You are the people the Jews call “uncircumcised.” Those who call you “uncircumcised” call themselves “circumcised.” (Their circumcision is only something they themselves do on their bodies.)

Ephesians 5:14

and everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”

Colossians 2:12

When you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and you were raised up with him through your faith in God’s power that was shown when he raised Christ from the dead.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is alive.

1 Timothy 6:13

In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, I give you a command. Christ Jesus made the good confession when he stood before Pontius Pilate.

Hebrews 6:1

So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not again start teaching about faith in God and about turning away from those acts that lead to death.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God.

James 2:17

In the same way, faith by itself—that does nothing—is dead.

James 2:20

You foolish person! Must you be shown that faith that does nothing is worth nothing?

James 2:26

Just as a person’s body that does not have a spirit is dead, so faith that does nothing is dead!

1 John 2:12

I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ.