Life and Forgiveness in Christ

Rooted in Christ · Colossians 2

Story guide: Visual essay — artwork is an interpretation. Anonymous baptism and an erased tablet interpret the burial-and-rising and canceled-debt images. They do not depict a particular Colossian baptism, resurrection, or cosmic triumph.

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12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you also were raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

13And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

14having wiped out the record of debt against us in decrees, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

15Having disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in him.

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