Colossians 1:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
  • Titus 3:3-7 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another; 4 and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, 7 that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.
  • Eph 2:1-3 : 1 Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins, 2 in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
  • Rom 5:9-9 : 9 much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath; 10 for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
  • 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Eph 2:19 : 19 Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
  • Titus 1:15-16 : 15 all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience; 16 God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, 8 for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 1:20
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    20and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

  • Col 1:22
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    22in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

  • Eph 2:11-18
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    11Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

    12that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

    13and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

    14for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,

    15the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,

    16and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

    17and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,

    18because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.

  • Eph 2:1-3
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    1Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

    2in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

    3among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

  • Col 2:13-15
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    13And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

    14having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

    15having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly -- having triumphed over them in it.

  • 2 Cor 5:18-21
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    18And the all things `are' of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

    19how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

    20in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'

    21for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

  • Titus 3:3
    74%

    3for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

  • Col 3:6-8
    3 verses
    73%

    6because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

    7in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

    8but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.

  • Rom 5:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

    10for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

    11And not only `so', but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

  • Col 1:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate `us' into the reign of the Son of His love,

    14in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

  • Eph 1:6-7
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    6to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

    7in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

  • 1 Cor 1:30
    71%

    30and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

  • Eph 1:10
    70%

    10in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;

  • Eph 4:23
    70%

    23and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  • Eph 2:5
    70%

    5even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

  • Eph 5:8
    70%

    8for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

  • Eph 1:20
    70%

    20which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places',

  • Col 1:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,

    27to whom God did will to make known what `is' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

  • Rom 5:1
    69%

    1Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Cor 6:11
    69%

    11And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Eph 4:31-32
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    31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

    32and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

  • Phil 1:30
    69%

    30the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

  • Eph 4:18
    69%

    18being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

  • Rom 3:24-25
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    24being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that `is' in Christ Jesus,

    25whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --

  • 1 Pet 1:20-21
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    68%

    20foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

    21who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

  • Col 3:3
    68%

    3for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;