Colossians 2:11 Cross References

Colossians 2:11

11: When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. It was a spiritual procedure--the cutting away of your sinful nature.

Romans 2:29

  1. No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not a cutting of the body but a change of heart produced by God's Spirit. Whoever has that kind of change seeks praise from God, not from people.

Romans 6:6

  1. Our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

Philippians 3:3

  1. For we who worship God in the Spirit are the only ones who are truly circumcised. We put no confidence in human effort. Instead, we boast about what Christ Jesus has done for us.

Galatians 5:24

  1. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Ephesians 4:22

  1. throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception.

2 Corinthians 5:17

  1. What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun!

Hebrews 9:24

  1. For Christ has entered into heaven itself to appear now before God as our Advocate. He did not go into the earthly place of worship, for that was merely a copy of the real Temple in heaven.

Galatians 2:20

  1. I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. So I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Deuteronomy 30:6

  1. "The LORD your God will cleanse your heart and the hearts of all your descendants so that you will love him with all your heart and soul, and so you may live!

Colossians 3:8

  1. But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language.
  2. Don't lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old evil nature and all its wicked deeds.

Deuteronomy 10:16

  1. Therefore, cleanse your sinful hearts and stop being stubborn.

Hebrews 9:11

  1. So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that great, perfect sanctuary in heaven, not made by human hands and not part of this created world.

Jeremiah 4:4

  1. Cleanse your minds and hearts before the LORD, or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire because of all your sins.

Ephesians 2:10

  1. For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
  2. Don't forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders by birth. You were called "the uncircumcised ones" by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts.
  3. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God's people, Israel, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.
  4. But now you belong to Christ Jesus. Though you once were far away from God, now you have been brought near to him because of the blood of Christ.
  5. For Christ himself has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles by making us all one people. He has broken down the wall of hostility that used to separate us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

  1. For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down--when we die and leave these bodies--we will have a home in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.

Acts 7:48

  1. However, the Most High doesn't live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,

Galatians 4:4

  1. But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
  2. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.

Mark 14:58

  1. "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this Temple made with human hands, and in three days I will build another, made without human hands.'"

Acts 17:24

  1. "He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn't live in man-made temples,

Luke 2:21

  1. Eight days later, when the baby was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel even before he was conceived.
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