Colossians 1:21 “Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engag…”

Colossians 1:21

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

Geneva Bible 1599

And you which were in times past strangers and enemies, because your mindes were set in euill workes, hath he nowe also reconciled,

Darby Translation

And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

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Cross references

“sometime”

Ephesians 2:12 Titus 3:3–7 Ephesians 4:18 Ephesians 2:19 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 Romans 1:30

Ephesians 2:12 · BSB

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.

Titus 3:3–7 · BSB

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.

Ephesians 4:18 · BSB

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.

Ephesians 2:19 · BSB

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 · BSB

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,

Romans 1:30 · BSB

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

“in your mind by”

Titus 1:15 Titus 1:16

Titus 1:15 · BSB

To 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 1:16 · BSB

They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20and 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.

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

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