Colossians 2:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Συνταφέντες αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ βαπτίσματι, ἐν ᾧ καὶ συνηγέρθητε διὰ τῆς πίστεως τῆς ἐνεργείας τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦ ἐγείραντος αὐτὸν ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν.

Transliteration

Having been syntaphentes with him in the baptismati, in which also you were synēgerthēte through the pisteōs of the energeias of the Theou, the one having egeirantos him from the nekrōn.

Grammar Details

• *syntaphentes*: aorist passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been buried with
• *baptismati*: dative, neuter, singular - baptism/immersion
• *synēgerthēte*: aorist passive indicative, 2nd person plural - you were raised with
• *pisteōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - faith/belief
• *energeias*: genitive, feminine, singular - working/operation/energy
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - God
• *egeirantos*: aorist active participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having raised
• *nekrōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - dead ones

Word Meanings

• *syntaphentes*: buried with/entombed together with
• *baptismati*: baptism/immersion/washing
• *synēgerthēte*: raised with/raised up together with
• *pisteōs*: faith/belief/trust
• *energeias*: working/operation/power/energy
• *Theou*: God/deity
• *egeirantos*: having raised/resurrected
• *nekrōn*: dead ones/corpses

Referenced Verses

• Rom 6:3-5 : 3 Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death? 4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life. 5 For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;
• Acts 2:24 : 24 But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.
• Rom 4:24 : 24 But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,
• Eph 4:5 : 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;
• Col 3:1-2 : 1 If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
• Gal 3:27 : 27 For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.
• Eph 1:19-20 : 19 And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power, 20 By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,
• Eph 2:4-6 : 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation), 6 So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
• Eph 2:8 : 8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
• Eph 3:7 : 7 Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
• Phil 1:29 : 29 Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:
• Rom 7:4 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
• 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
• Titus 3:5-6 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit, 6 Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Heb 6:2 : 2 The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day.
• Heb 12:2 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
• Heb 13:20-21 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement, 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
• Jas 1:16-17 : 16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
• 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin; 2 So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God. 3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
• Rom 6:8-9 : 8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him; 9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him. 10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God. 11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
• Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.
• Luke 17:5 : 5 And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.
• John 1:12-13 : 12 To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
• John 3:3-7 : 3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again? 5 Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God. 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.