Colossians 1:21

Conflict and reconciliation Sin The stranger and outcast

¹⁹ For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

²⁰ and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

²² But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

²³ if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
KJV: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
WEB: You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,
ASV: And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
DARBY: And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled
BLB: And you⁺, being once alienated and enemies in the mind, in the evil works—

ÅB: Også dere, som før i tiden var fremmede og fiender ved deres sinnelag, i de onde gjerninger,
OTB: En gang var dere fremmedgjort fra Gud og fiendtlige i deres sinn, engasjert i onde gjerninger,
B1930: Også eder, som fordum var fremmede og fiender ved eders sinnelag, i de onde gjerninger,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ephesians 2:12
remember 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.
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Titus 3:3–7
For 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.
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Ephesians 2:1–3
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
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Romans 5:9–10
Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
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Ephesians 4:18
They 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.
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Ephesians 2:19
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
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Romans 8:7–8
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
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1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Do 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,
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