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-# When you were dead
+# When you were dead ... he made you alive
 
-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]])
-
-# you were dead ... he made you alive
-
-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]])
+Paul speaks of unresponsiveness to God as if it were death, while he also speaks of coming into new spiritual life as if it were coming back to life physically. Alternate translation: "When you Colossian believers were unable to respond to God" 
 
 # dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh