For the entire fullness(A) of God’s nature[a] dwells bodily[b] in Christ, 10 and you have been filled by Him, who is the head(B) over every ruler and authority. 11 You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh,(C) in the circumcision of the Messiah.[c](D) 12 Having been buried with Him(E) in baptism, you were also raised with Him(F) through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.(G) 13 And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses. 14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.(H) 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; He triumphed over them by Him.[d](I)

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:9 Or of the deity
  2. Colossians 2:9 Or nature lives in a human body
  3. Colossians 2:11 = His death
  4. Colossians 2:15 Or them through it; = through the cross

because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you are filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority, 11 in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, by the removal of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And although you were dead[a][b] in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way by[c] nailing it to the cross. 15 When he[d] had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of them in public, triumphing over them by it.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:13 Literally “and you being dead”
  2. Colossians 2:13 Here the participle (“being”) is understood as concessive
  3. Colossians 2:14 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“nailing”) which is understood as means
  4. Colossians 2:15 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had disarmed”) which is understood as temporal
  5. Colossians 2:15 Or “in him”