Colossians 2:13–14
The record of debt against us was nailed to the cross
Study it word by word13And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all the trespasses,
14having wiped out the certificate of debt against us with its decrees, which was opposed to us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
In its context
11In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, in the stripping off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah,
12having been buried with him in the immersion, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
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15Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he exposed them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16So let no one judge you in eating or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,
Its words in the original
- νεκροὺςnekrous· dead
Dead.
- ὄνταςontas· be
Be, exist.
- παραπτώμασινparaptōmasin· offense, wrongdoing
Offense, false step, transgression.
- ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobystiai· foreskin, uncircumcision
Foreskin; hence uncircumcision, the state of not being circumcised, and the uncircumcised, the people who are not Jews.
- σαρκὸςsarkos· flesh
Flesh: the body, and weak human nature; "flesh and blood", a human being with only human strength.
- συνεζωοποίησενsynezōopoiēsen· make alive together
Make alive together with another.
- σὺνsyn· with
With, together with.
- χαρισάμενοςcharisamenos· give freely, forgive
Give as a favor, grant freely; also forgive.
- ἐξαλείψαςexaleipsas· wipe out
Wipe away, blot out, erase completely.
- χειρόγραφονcheirographon· record of debt
Record of debt, a handwritten note signed by the debtor.
- δόγμασινdogmasin· decree
Decree, official order; also a rule.
- ὑπεναντίονhypenantion· opposed
Contrary, opposed.
- ἦρκενērken· lift, take away
Lift up, carry; also take away.
- μέσουmesou· middle
Middle, in the midst.
- προσηλώσαςprosēlōsas· nail
Nail to something.
- σταυρῷstaurōi· cross
Cross: the wooden stake of Roman execution.