Colossians 1:21

In 9 translations

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,

LSV

And you—once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now He reconciled,

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

GNV

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

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

καὶ ὑμᾶς ποτε ὄντας ἀπηλλοτριωμένους καὶ ἐχθροὺς τῇ διανοίᾳ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς πονηροῖς—

RP2018

Καὶ ὑμᾶς ποτὲ ὄντας ἀπηλλοτριωμένους καὶ ἐχθροὺς τῇ διανοίᾳ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς πονηροῖς, νυνὶ δὲ ἀποκατήλλαξεν

TR-Boyd

Καὶ ὑμᾶς ποτὲ ὄντας ἀπηλλοτριωμένους καὶ ἐχθροὺς τῇ διανοίᾳ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς πονηροῖς, νυνὶ δὲ ἀποκατήλλαξεν

SCR1894

και υμας ποτε οντας απηλλοτριωμενους και εχθρους τη διανοια εν τοις εργοις τοις πονηροις νυνι δε αποκατηλλαξεν

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• Titus 3:3–7For 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. But when the kindness of God our Savior and…
• Ephesians 2:1–3And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.…
• 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.
• Romans 5:9–10Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much…
• Ephesians 2:19Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
• Romans 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
• 1 Corinthians 6:9–11Do 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, nor thieves, nor…
• Titus 1:15–16To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are…
• Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
• 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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