TSK · Colossians 2:13

Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

Come, let’s consider your options,” says the LORD.“Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.

“People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD.“For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”

But Jesus said to him,“Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

So also it is written,“The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–

But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.