Colossians 2:13

13. And you This is an appeal again to their experience, as in Colossians 1:20. It is the argumentum ad hominem, showing that what has been said generally in Colossians 2:11-12, is true in them specially. Their old state was one of spiritual death: they were wicked and heathen uncircumcised Gentiles. God quickened them, made them alive through the life of the risen Christ. To complete and point the argument, it is further added that with this new life was given them the free, gracious forgiveness of all their transgressions, and which, without the imposition of the physical rite of circumcision, as the next verse shows, was no longer in force. Through Christ alone, without accessories, they were saved.