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11 In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision,[a] by the removal of the body[b] of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;(A) 12 when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.(B) 13 And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God[c] made you[d] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses,(C) 14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed[e] the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.(D)

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  1. 2.11 Gk a circumcision made without hands
  2. 2.11 Other ancient authorities add of the sins
  3. 2.13 Gk he
  4. 2.13 Other ancient authorities read made us or made
  5. 2.15 Or divested himself of