Colossians 1:22

Conflict and reconciliation Purity The cross and atonement Justification

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.

²¹ Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

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.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

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

Compare

BSB: But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
KJV: In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
WEB: yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
ASV: yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
DARBY: in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,
BLB: but now He has reconciled [you] in His body of flesh through death, to present you⁺ holy and unblemished and blameless before Him,

ÅB: dere har han nå forlikt i hans jordiske legeme ved døden, for å fremstille dere hellige og ulastelige og ustraffelige for sitt åsyn,
OTB: men nå har han forsonet dere gjennom Kristi fysiske kropp ved hans død for å presentere dere hellige i hans øyne, uten lyte og fri fra anklage—
B1930: eder har han nu forlikt i hans jordiske legeme ved døden, for å fremstille eder hellige og ulastelige og ustraffelige for sitt åsyn,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ephesians 5:27
and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
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Ephesians 1:4
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
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Jude 1:24
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
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Hebrews 10:10
And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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Titus 2:14
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
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Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
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Hebrews 10:20
by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,
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Ephesians 2:15–16
by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
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