Colossians 2:12

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

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

— WEB

“Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.”

— KJV

“having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Romans 6:3-5 "Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?"
1 Peter 3:21 "This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towa…"
Galatians 3:27 "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
Ephesians 2:4-6 "But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,"
Colossians 3:1-2 "If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God."
Acts 2:24 "whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it."
Ephesians 4:5 "one Lord, one faith, one baptism,"
Ephesians 3:17 "that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,"

Commentary

Translate, "Having been buried with Him in your baptism." The past participle is here coincident in time with the preceding verb, "ye were (Greek) circumcised." Baptism is regarded as the burial of the old carnal life, to which the act of immersion symbolically corresponds; and in warm climates where immersion is safe, it is the mode most accordant with the significance of the ordinance; but the spirit of the ordinance is kept by affusion, where immersion would be inconvenient or dangerous; to insist on literal immersion in all cases would be mere legal ceremonialism (Rom 6:3-4). are risen--rather as Greek, "were raised with Him." through the faith, &c.--by means of your faith in the operation of God; so "faith of," for "faith in" (Eph 3:12; Phi 3:9). Faith in God's mighty operation in raising again Jesus, is saving faith (Rom 4:24; Rom 10:9); and it is wrought in the soul by His same "mighty working" whereby He "raised Jesus from the dead" (Eph 1:19-20). BENGEL seems to me (not as ALFORD understands him) to express the latter sense, namely, "Through the faith which is a work of the operation of God who," &c. Eph 1:19-20 accords with this; the same mighty power of God is exercised in raising one spiritually dead to the life of faith, as was "wrought in Christ when God raised Him literally from the dead.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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