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# When you were dead
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Paul speaks of unresponsiveness to God as if it were death. Alternate translation: "When you Colossian believers were unable to respond to God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# you were dead ... he made you alive
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With this metaphor Paul speaks of coming into new spiritual life as if it were coming back to life physically. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh
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You were dead on two accounts: 1) you were spiritually dead, living a life of sin against Christ and 2) you were not circumcised according to the law of Moses.
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# forgave us all of our trespasses
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"he forgave us, both us Jews and you Gentiles, of all our trespasses"
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