Colossians 2:10-12

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ and you have ·a full and true life in Christ [^Lbeen filled in him], who is ·ruler [^Lhead] over every ruler and ·power [authority].

¹¹ In Christ you were also circumcised, but not with a circumcision done by hands [Rom. 2:28; Phil. 3:3]. It was ·a circumcision done by Christ [^Lthe circumcision of Christ], which ·freed you from [put off; cut away] ·the power of your sinful self [your sinful nature; ^Lthe body of flesh; ^Cjust as OT circumcision cut off the physical flesh, so Christ’s circumcision “cuts off” the “flesh”—the power of our sinful self]. ¹² When you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and you were raised up with him through your faith in the ·power [working; active agency] of God, who raised Christ from the dead.