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Indeed, God Made Us Alive With Christ, Having Forgiven All Our Trespasses

13 Indeed, you being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh— He made you alive-together with Him, having forgiven us all the trespasses, 14 having wiped-out[a] the written-document[b] against us with[c] its decrees, which was opposed to us. Indeed, He has taken it out of the middle, having nailed it to the cross! 15 Having stripped[d] the rulers and the authorities, He exposed them in public, having celebrated-a-triumph-over[e] them in Him[f]!

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:14 Or, blotted out, erased.
  2. Colossians 2:14 Or, handwriting; or more technically, certificate-of-debt. That is, the Law (God’s requirements); or, the indictment against us; or, our personal certificate of debt to God.
  3. Colossians 2:14 Or, in, with reference to, by reason of, accompanied by. Or, taking this with what follows, ‘which by its decrees was opposed to us’.
  4. Colossians 2:15 Or, disarmed, spoiled. That is, having stripped away their power; or, having stripped these beings away from Himself.
  5. Colossians 2:15 Or, led them as captives in a triumphant procession.
  6. Colossians 2:15 Or, in it, by it (the cross).

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