Colossians
2: 9-15
9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in
bodily form, 10and you have been given fullness in Christ,
who is the head over every power and authority. 11In him you
were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision
done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, 12having
been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of
God, who raised him from the dead.
13When you were dead in your sins and
in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us
all our sins, 14having canceled the written code, with its
regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it
to the cross. 15And having disarmed the powers and
authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
