Colossians 1:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.”
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“Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled”
King James Version · Public Domain“And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And you--once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Colossians 1:21 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 14:5so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
- Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
- Romans 5:9Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
- Romans 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- Ephesians 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
- Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Ephesians 2:19Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
- Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
- Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
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