Complete In Christ

Walk in Him

Colossians 2:6–15 ESV

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

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Word Studies in the New Testament Chapter 2

The spiritual circumcision effected through Christ. See Eph. 2:11; Philip. 3:3; Rom. 2:29. In, as above. The fleshly circumcision removed only a portion of the body. In spiritual circumcision, through Christ, the whole corrupt, carnal nature is put away like a garment which is taken off and laid aside.

Word Studies in the New Testament Chapter 2

Ye were raised with Him (συνηγέρθητε). The burial and the raising are both typified in baptism. The raising is not the resurrection to eternal life at Christ’s second coming, but the moral resurrection to a new life. This corresponds with the drift of the entire passage, with the figurative sense of buried, and with Rom. 6:4, which is decisive.

Word Studies in the New Testament Chapter 2

Through the faith of the operation of God. Not the faith which God works, but your faith in God’s working: faith in God’s energy as displayed in Christ’s resurrection. Hence the emphasis which is laid on faith in the resurrection. See 1 Cor. 15:3, 4 (note); Rom. 10:9; Eph. 1:19. Vv. 11, 12 should be compared with Rom. 6:2–6.

Word Studies in the New Testament Chapter 2

The uncircumcision of your flesh. That sinful, carnal nature of which uncircumcision was the sign, and which was the source of the trespasses. Compare Eph. 2:11.