Colossians 2

Which worship songs are based on Colossians 2?

Future / Past — John Mark McMillan (2014) Colossians 2:3
The pre-chorus closely adapts Paul's description of all wisdom and knowledge as treasures hidden in Christ, recasting their location through the image of God's hand.
Let My Life Overflow — John Pape (2022) Colossians 2:6-7
The combined imagery of walking with God, being strengthened in truth, and abounding in gratitude closely follows Paul's exhortation to live in Christ, become established in faith, and overflow with thankfulness.
Salvation — Bryson Gray (2021) Colossians 2:8
The outro’s contrast between worldly rudiments and Christ closely follows Paul’s warning against principles grounded in human tradition rather than Christ.
Chapter and Verse — Bryson Gray (2021) Colossians 2:8
The song names this verse and closely restates its warning against being captured by deceptive philosophy and human tradition.
Signed to Christ — Bryson Gray (2021) Colossians 2:8
The song explicitly cites this verse while contrasting human traditions with allegiance to Christ, matching Paul's warning about tradition and teaching not grounded in Christ.
Jesus Beautiful — Vineyard Worship (2019) Colossians 2:9
The song identifies the complete fullness of God as dwelling in the human Jesus, closely reflecting Paul's description of divine fullness residing bodily in Christ.
Be My Peace — Jonathan Ogden (2025) Colossians 2:9
The description of divine fullness making its dwelling in human nature closely reflects Paul's declaration that the fullness of deity dwells bodily in Christ.
In Christ Alone - Live — Keith & Kristyn Getty (2013) Colossians 2:9
The presentation of divine fullness embodied in the infant Jesus closely echoes Paul's statement that the fullness of deity dwells bodily in Christ.
Adam's Fall — 11th Hour (2010) Colossians 2:10
The narrator’s declaration of completeness through union with Christ closely adapts Paul’s assurance that believers are complete in him.
Simply Free — Beckah Shae (2008) Colossians 2:10
The declaration of completeness in Christ closely reproduces Paul's description of believers' fullness in him.
All You've Ever Wanted — Casting Crowns (2014) Colossians 2:10
The bridge’s declaration of completeness through union with Christ closely reflects Paul’s assertion that believers are complete in him. It supports the song’s rejection of efforts to earn an acceptance already secured through Christ.
Jesus Paid It All — Don Moen (2014) Colossians 2:10
The believer’s completeness through union with Christ closely adapts Paul’s declaration that believers are complete in him. The hymn places that assurance within a future encounter before God’s throne.
Complete — Kutless (2008) Colossians 2:10
The chorus closely adapts Paul's declaration that believers are complete in Christ. This is the song's central claim, locating completeness in relationship with Him rather than in self-improvement.
Raised to Life — Elevation Worship (2014) Colossians 2:12-14
The chorus describes believers participating in Christ’s resurrection, while the preceding verse presents their obligation as fully discharged. This combination closely follows Paul’s account of believers receiving life with Christ and having their record of indebtedness canceled through the cross.
Homecoming - Live — Bethel Music & Cory Asbury & Gable Price (2021) Colossians 2:13-14
The song describes Christ canceling the sinner’s indebted record by fastening it to the cross, closely following Paul’s account of the certificate of debt being removed through crucifixion.
Rooftops — Fellowship Creative (2013) Colossians 2:13-14
The image of sins being nailed to the cross adapts Paul’s description of God forgiving trespasses and removing the record of debt by nailing it to Christ’s cross.
Sing of My Redeemer — Aaron Shust (2011) Colossians 2:13-14
The song joins forgiveness and the removal of indebtedness to Christ’s cross. This closely parallels Paul’s description of forgiveness through the cancellation of the record of debt, which is removed at the cross.
His Glory & My Good — CityAlight (2026) Colossians 2:13-14
The song closely paraphrases Paul’s image of the legal record against sinners being canceled and fastened to Christ’s cross.
Murdered Son — John Mark McMillan (2012) Colossians 2:13-14
The movement from spiritual death to canceled moral debt closely parallels Paul's account of God making believers alive, forgiving their trespasses, and removing the record of debt through the cross.
His Glory and My Good - Live — CityAlight (2024) Colossians 2:13-14
The image of the believer's condemning charge being fastened to the cross closely follows Paul's account of God canceling the hostile record and nailing it there.
Nailed to the Cross — Rend Collective (2017) Colossians 2:13-14
The chorus closely reflects Paul's description of God canceling the record of debt against believers by fastening it to Christ's cross.
By Your Grace — Cody Johnson (2021) Colossians 2:13-14
The song presents forgiveness as the complete settlement of a moral debt, closely reflecting Paul's description of God canceling the record of indebtedness through Christ. Its language of completed release also aligns with the passage's emphasis on a decisive act already accomplished.
From Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology) — Hillsong Worship (2020) Colossians 2:13-14
The declaration that Christ's cross leaves no outstanding debt closely reflects Paul's description of God canceling the record of debt and removing it through the cross.
It Is Well With My Soul — Keith & Kristyn Getty & The Getty Girls (2021) Colossians 2:13-14
The song presents the believer's entire burden of sin as fastened to Christ's cross and no longer held against the believer, closely reflecting Paul's description of the condemning record being canceled and nailed to the cross.
WASHED — ELEVATION RHYTHM (2025) Colossians 2:13-14
The image of a condemning burden being removed and fastened to the cross closely parallels Paul’s description of God canceling the record of debt and nailing it to the cross.
Keep On (feat. Davide Mutendji, Tori Elliott & Isaiah Templeton) — Elevation Worship (2026) Colossians 2:13-14
The bridge depicts the worshipper's moral debt as canceled and sins forgiven, closely reflecting Paul's account of God canceling the record of indebtedness through Christ.
Banner — Cody Carnes (2017) Colossians 2:13-14
The bridge evokes the cancellation of humanity's condemning record and the forgiveness of debt through Christ's cross.
Power to Redeem — Lauren Daigle (2014) Colossians 2:13-14
The song portrays shame as a burden removed through Christ’s crucifixion. This closely adapts Paul’s description of God forgiving sins and canceling the record of debt by nailing it to the cross.
Mercy — Matt Redman (2014) Colossians 2:13-14
The depiction of Jesus taking human shame and fastening it to the cross adapts Paul’s distinctive image of the record of debt being removed by being nailed to the cross. The song substitutes shame for the passage’s legal indebtedness while retaining its concrete image of forgiveness.
Never Stop Singing — Bethany Music (2018) Colossians 2:13
The song links forgiveness with God restoring the worshiper to life, closely paralleling Paul's description of those spiritually dead in sin being made alive and forgiven by God.
I Will Boast — Chris Tomlin (2014) Colossians 2:13-14
The combination of forgiven sin, erased indebtedness, and the cross closely reflects Paul's account of God forgiving trespasses and canceling the record of debt by nailing it to the cross.
Jesus We Are Grateful — Jason Gray (2011) Colossians 2:13
The speaker's movement from spiritual death in wrongdoing to life through Christ closely adapts Paul's description of sinners being made alive with Christ. The subsequent reference to life concealed in Christ reinforces the Colossians context.
It Is Well With My Soul — Chris Rice (2007) Colossians 2:13-14
The hymn portrays the entire burden of sin as removed by being nailed to Christ's cross. This closely adapts Paul's image of the condemning record being canceled and nailed to the cross.
Keep On (feat. Davide Mutendji, Tori Elliott & Isaiah Templeton) — Elevation Worship & Davide Mutendji & Tori Elliott & Isaiah Templeton (2026) Colossians 2:14
The song references the cancellation of debts and covering of sins, which aligns with Colossians 2:14, where Paul speaks of God canceling the record of debt that stood against us.
The Cross — Anne Wilson (2024) Colossians 2:14
The image of a written record of sins being nailed to the cross directly reflects Paul’s description of the condemning record being canceled through Christ’s crucifixion.
Men Of God, Take Up The Sword — Brian Sauvé (2023) Colossians 2:14-15
Christ’s death is portrayed as canceling humanity’s legal indebtedness and turning the cross into a public triumph over hostile powers.
Now Why This Fear — Sovereign Grace Music (2014) Colossians 2:14
The description of sin's debt being canceled at the cross closely follows Paul's image of the record of debt being removed and nailed to the cross.
Weapon — Vertical Worship (2020) Colossians 2:15
The song presents Christ’s cross as the means by which the enemy was humiliated, closely reflecting Paul’s description of hostile spiritual powers being disarmed and publicly disgraced through Christ.
December 5 or 6 B.C. — ApologetiX (2010) Colossians 2:16-17
The song names Colossians 2:16 and closely adapts its prohibition against judging others over food, festivals, and Sabbaths. Its description of observances as shadows whose reality is Christ also directly engages verse 17.
Keep Your Ham to Yourself — ApologetiX (2011) Colossians 2:16
The narrator explicitly cites this verse as support against religious judgment over his food choices. The passage instructs believers not to let others judge them regarding food, drink, or religious observances.

Colossians 2 (King James Version)

¹ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

² That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴ And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

⁵ For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

⁶ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

⁷ Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

⁹ For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

¹⁰ And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

¹¹ In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

¹² Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

¹³ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

¹⁴ Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

¹⁵ And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

¹⁶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

¹⁷ Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

¹⁸ Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

¹⁹ And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

²⁰ Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

²¹ (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

²² Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

²³ Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.