Colossians 1:21

World English Bible (2000)

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

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  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Titus 3:3-7 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • Eph 2:1-3 : 1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
  • Rom 5:9-9 : 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him. 10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Eph 2:19 : 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
  • Titus 1:15-16 : 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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    20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

  • Col 1:22
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    22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

  • Eph 2:11-18
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    11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

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    13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

    14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

    15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

    16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

    17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

    18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

  • Eph 2:1-3
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    1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

    2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

    3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

  • Col 2:13-15
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    13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

    14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

    15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

  • 2 Cor 5:18-21
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    18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

    19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

    20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

    21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  • Col 3:6-8
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    6 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

    7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

    8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

  • Rom 5:9-11
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    9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

    10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

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

  • Col 1:13-14
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    13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

    14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

  • Eph 1:6-7
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    6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

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    10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

  • Eph 4:23
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    23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

  • Eph 5:8
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    8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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    26 the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

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    1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Eph 4:31-32
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    31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

    32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • Eph 4:18
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    18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

  • Rom 3:24-25
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    24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

    25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

  • 1 Pet 1:20-21
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    20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

    21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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    3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.