Colossians 2:11-16

The Voice

¹¹ In Him you were also circumcised, set apart by a spiritual act performed without hands. The Anointed One’s circumcision cut you off from the sinfulness of your flesh. ¹² You were buried with Him beneath the waters of the ceremonial washing called baptism^[a] and then were raised up with Him by faith in the resurrection power of God, who brought Him back from the dead. ¹³ And when your flesh was still uncircumcised—dead in transgression and swathed in its sinful nature—it was God who brought us^[b] to life with Him, forgave all our sins, and ¹⁴ eliminated the massive debt we incurred by the law that stood against us. He took it all away; He nailed it to the cross. But that’s not all. ¹⁵ He disarmed those who once ruled over us—those who had overpowered us. Like captives of war, He put them on display to the world to show His victory over them by means of the cross.

¹⁶ So don’t let anyone stand in judgment over you and dictate what you should eat or drink, what festivals you should celebrate, or how you should observe a new moon or Sabbath days—