Colossians 1:21

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Paul’s Goal in Ministry And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

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  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Titus 3:3-7 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”
  • Eph 2:1-3 : 1 New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins, 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  • Rom 5:9-9 : 9 Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
  • Eph 2:19 : 19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
  • Titus 1:15-16 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16 They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.

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    20and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross– through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

  • Col 1:22
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    22but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–

  • Eph 2:11-18
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    11New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–

    12that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

    13But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

    14For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

    15when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,

    16and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

    17And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,

    18so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

  • Eph 2:1-3
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    1New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

    2in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

    3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

  • Col 2:13-15
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    13And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

    14He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

    15Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

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    18And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

    19In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.

    20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf,“Be reconciled to God!”

    21God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  • Col 3:6-8
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    6Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

    7You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

    8But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

  • Rom 5:9-11
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    9Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

    10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

    11Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

  • Col 1:13-14
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    13He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

    14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

  • Eph 1:6-7
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    6to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

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    10toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ– the things in heaven and the things on earth.

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    23to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    5even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–

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    8for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light–

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  • Col 1:26-27
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    26that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

    27God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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    1The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Eph 4:31-32
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    31You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk– indeed all malice.

    32Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

  • Eph 4:18
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    18They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  • Rom 3:24-25
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    24But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

    21Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

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    3for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.