You have taken off your old self
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices Colossians 3:9 (NIV) Are you already a believer yet still struggling to overcome
Keep seeking the things that are above
IF THEN you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above,
Who runs your life?
Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They’re
He disarmed Principalities and Powers
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. Colossians 2:15 (NKJV) Walking in victory over the devil, his demons and all
The old arrest warrant has been canceled
….that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s Cross. Colossians 2:14 (MSG) We were prisoners, prisoners to sin because of what Adam did but because God forgave us all
The slate has been wiped clean
…the slate wiped clean. Colossians 2:14 (MSG) God’s forgiving is wiping out. Jesus the Lamb of God took away our sins. They are not covered but washed away by His
Raised to a New Life
[Thus you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in [your] baptism, in which you were also raised with Him [to a new life] through [your] faith in the
A Spiritual Circumcision
In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the
You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope
Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They
Avoid being taken Captive
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on