Colossians 2:12
Context2:12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your 1 faith in the power 2 of God who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:14
Context2:14 He has destroyed 3 what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness 4 expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.


[2:12] 1 tn The article with the genitive modifier τῆς πίστεως (th" pistew") is functioning as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
[2:12] 2 tn The genitive τῆς ἐνεργείας (th" energeia") has been translated as an objective genitive, “faith in the power.”
[2:14] 3 tn The participle ἐξαλείψας (exaleiyas) is a temporal adverbial participle of contemporaneous time related to the previous verb συνεζωοποίησεν (sunezwopoihsen), but has been translated as a finite verb because of the complexity of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences. For the meaning “destroy” see BDAG 344-45 s.v. ἐξαλείφω 2.
[2:14] 4 tn On the translation of χειρόγραφον (ceirografon), see BDAG 1083 s.v. which refers to it as “a certificate of indebtedness.”