Colossians 2:13

World English Bible (2000)

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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  • Eph 2:1 : 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
  • Jas 2:26 : 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
  • 1 John 1:7-9 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • 1 John 2:12 : 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
  • Eph 2:5-6 : 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
  • Eph 2:11 : 11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
  • 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
  • Heb 6:1 : 1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
  • Heb 8:10-12 : 10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Ps 32:1 : 1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
  • Ps 119:50 : 50 This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
  • Ezek 37:1-9 : 1 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. 3 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know. 4 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. 5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. 6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
  • Luke 9:60 : 60 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
  • Luke 15:24 : 24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"
  • John 5:21 : 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
  • John 6:63 : 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
  • Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Rom 4:17 : 17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
  • 1 Cor 15:36 : 36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
  • Jas 2:17 : 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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