Colossians 2:12 meaning and explanation
And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
Colossians 2:12, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul writes to believers in Colossae he has never met, answering teachers who wanted to add extra rules and spiritual experiences to the gospel. In verse 12 he pictures baptism as burial with Christ and raising with Christ: going down into the water and coming up again portray dying to the old life and rising to new life.
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