Alive in Christ

Colossians 2

⁶ _g As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, ⁷ _h rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding ₁ in it with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware lest anyone ₂ cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to _i the tradition of men, according to the _j basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For _k in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead ₃ bodily; ¹⁰ and you are complete in Him, who is the _l head of all ₄ principality and power. ¹¹ In Him you were also _m circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by _n putting off the body ₅ of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹² _o buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through _p faith in the working of God, _q who raised Him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, ¹⁴ _r having wiped out the ₆ handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵ _s Having disarmed _t principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

1. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 4:1
   Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God.
   
2. Cross References
   Ephesians 2:21
   In whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
   
3. Cross References
   Galatians 1:14
   And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
   
4. Cross References
   Galatians 4:3
   Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
   Galatians 4:9
   But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
   Galatians 4:10
   You observe days and months and seasons and years.
   Colossians 2:20
   Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations -
   
5. Cross References
   John 1:14
   And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
   Colossians 1:19
   For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell.
   
6. Cross References
   Ephesians 1:20
   Which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.
   Ephesians 1:21
   Far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
   1 Peter 3:22
   Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.
   
7. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 10:16
   Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.
   
8. Cross References
   Romans 6:6
   Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
   Romans 7:24
   O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
   Galatians 5:24
   And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
   Colossians 3:5
   Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
   
9. Cross References
   Romans 6:4
   Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
   
10. Cross References
    Ephesians 1:19
    And what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power
    Ephesians 1:20
    Which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.
    
11. Cross References
    Acts 2:24
    Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
    
12. Cross References
    Ephesians 2:15
    Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace.
    Ephesians 2:16
    And that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
    Colossians 2:20
    Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations -
    
13. Cross References
    Isaiah 53:12
    Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
    Hebrews 2:14
    Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil.
    
14. Cross References
    Ephesians 6:12
    For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.