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In commenting on Colossians, Ernest D. Martin (Mennonite Church) highlights a wholistic Christology in contrast to past and present perversions of the gospel. In the section on Philemon, he draws attention to the social implications of the koinonia of faith for the servants of Jesus Christ.

The other related phrase, also found in Colossians, is with Christ. Although it is not a code phrase to the extent that in Christ is, both phrases convey overlapping concepts. Note the implied contrast between being in Christ and in the world in 2:20, expressed in NASB: If you have died with Christ … why, as if you were living in the world, do you …? In addition Paul used fourteen compound words beginning with sun, the preposition translated “with.” Three of them are found in Colossians (EDM),
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