Colossians 2:13

The Passion Translation

This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins!

Cross References

Psalm 119:50

In all of my affliction I find great comfort in your promises, for they have kept me alive!

Psalm 32:1

What bliss belongs to the one whose rebellion has been forgiven, those whose sins are covered by blood.

Psalm 71:20

Even though you’ve let us sink down with trials and troubles, I know you will revive us again, lifting us up from the dust of death.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now and let’s deliberate over the next steps to take together.” Yahweh promises you over and over: “Though your sins stain you like scarlet, I will whiten them like bright, new-fallen snow! Even though they are deep red like crimson, they will be made white like wool!

Isaiah 55:7

The wicked need to abandon their ways, and sinful ones need to banish every evil thought. Let them return to Yahweh, and they will experience his compassionate mercy. Yes, let them return to God, for he will lavish forgiveness upon them.

Jeremiah 31:34

None of them will have to teach their friends or family, saying, ‘Come and know Yahweh intimately!’ No, from the least to the greatest, they will all know me intimately,” Yahweh declares, “for I will remove their guilt and wipe their sin from my memory.”

Luke 15:24

For my beloved son was once dead, but now he’s alive! Once he was lost, but now he is found!’ And everyone celebrated with overflowing joy.

Luke 15:32

It’s only right to rejoice and celebrate like this, because your brother was once dead and gone, but now he is alive and back with us again. He was lost, but now he is found!’ ”

Luke 9:60

Jesus told him, “Don’t wait for your father’s burial. Let those who are already dead wait for death. As for you, go and proclaim everywhere that God’s kingdom has arrived.”

John 5:21

For just as the Father has power to raise the dead, the Son will also raise the dead and give life to whomever he wants.

John 6:63

“The Holy Spirit is the one who gives life, that which is of the natural realm is of no help. The words I speak to you are Spirit and life. But there are still some of you who won’t believe.”

Romans 4:17

That’s what the Scripture means when it says: “I have made you the father of many nations.” He is our example and father, for in God’s presence he believed that God can raise the dead and call into being things that don’t even exist yet.

Romans 6:13

So then, refuse to answer its call to surrender your body as a tool for wickedness. Instead, passionately answer God’s call to keep yielding your body to him as one who has now experienced resurrection life! You live now for his pleasure, ready to be used for his noble purpose.

Romans 8:11

Yes, God raised Jesus to life! And since God’s Spirit of Resurrection lives in you, he will also raise your dying body to life by the same Spirit that breathes life into you!

1 Corinthians 15:36

Foolish man! Don’t you know that what you sow in the ground doesn’t germinate unless it dies?

1 Corinthians 15:45

For it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became the life-giving Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He alone makes us adequate ministers who are focused on an entirely new covenant. Our ministry is not based on the letter of the law but through the power of the Spirit. The letter of the law kills, but the Spirit pours out life.

2 Corinthians 5:19

In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and he has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God.

Ephesians 2:1

And his fullness fills you, even though you were once like corpses, dead in your sins and offenses.

Ephesians 2:11

So don’t forget that you were not born as Jews and were uncircumcised (circumcision itself is just a work of man’s hands); you had none of the Jewish covenants and laws; you were foreigners to Israel’s incredible heritage; you were without the covenants and prophetic promises of the Messiah, the promised hope, and without God.

Ephesians 5:14

This is why the Scripture says, “Arise, you sleeper! Rise up from your coffin and the Anointed One will shine his light into you!”

Colossians 2:12

For we’ve been buried with him into his death. Our “baptism into death” also means we were raised with him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised him from death’s realm.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who serves only herself lives a life of self-indulgence and is wasting her life away.

1 Timothy 6:13

So now, I instruct you before the God of resurrection life and before Jesus, the Anointed One, who demonstrated a beautiful testimony even before Pontius Pilate,

Hebrews 6:1

Now is the time for us to progress beyond the basic message of Christ and advance into perfection. The foundation has already been laid for us to build upon: turning away from our dead works to embrace faith in God,

Hebrews 9:14

Yet how much more will the sacred blood of the Messiah thoroughly cleanse our consciences! For by the power of the eternal Spirit he has offered himself to God as the perfect Sacrifice that now frees us from our dead works to worship and serve the living God.

James 2:17

So then faith that doesn’t involve action is phony.

James 2:20

O feeble sons of Adam, do you need further evidence that faith divorced from good works is phony?

James 2:26

For just as a human body without the spirit is a dead corpse, so faith without the expression of good works is dead!

1 John 2:12

I remind you, dear children: your sins have been permanently removed because of the power of his name.