Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Colossians 2:12, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Romans 6:3
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
- Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- 1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towa…
- Ephesians 2:4
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
- Colossians 3:1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
- Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- Romans 6:8
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
- Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
- Romans 4:24
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
- Ephesians 1:19
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
- Philippians 1:29
For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
More to meet God in Colossians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.