Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. New Living Translation This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. English Standard Version And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, Berean Standard Bible Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds. Berean Literal Bible And you, being once alienated and hostile in mind, in the evil deeds, King James Bible And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled New King James Version And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled New American Standard Bible And although you were previously alienated and hostile in attitude, engaged in evil deeds, NASB 1995 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, NASB 1977 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, Legacy Standard Bible And although you were formerly alienated and enemies in mind and in evil deeds, Amplified Bible And although you were at one time estranged and alienated and hostile-minded [toward Him], participating in evil things, Christian Standard Bible Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions. Holman Christian Standard Bible Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions. American Standard Version And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, Aramaic Bible in Plain English Even you from the first were aliens and enemies in your minds because of your evil works, and now he has given you peace, Contemporary English Version You used to be far from God. Your thoughts made you his enemies, and you did evil things. Douay-Rheims Bible And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works: English Revised Version And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath he reconciled GOD'S WORD® Translation Once you were separated from God. The evil things you did showed your hostile attitude. Good News Translation At one time you were far away from God and were his enemies because of the evil things you did and thought. International Standard Version You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil, Literal Standard Version And you—once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now He reconciled, Majority Standard Bible Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds. New American Bible And you who once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds NET Bible And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds, New Revised Standard Version And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, New Heart English Bible You, who once were alienated and were hostile in your minds, doing evil deeds, Webster's Bible Translation And you, that were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled, Weymouth New Testament And you, estranged as you once were and even hostile in your minds, amidst your evil deeds, World English Bible You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds, Young's Literal Translation And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Supremacy of Christ…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. 21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds. 22But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—… Cross References 2 Samuel 22:24 And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity. Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Ephesians 2:3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. 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. Ephesians 2:15 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 Treasury of Scripture And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled sometime. Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Romans 5:9,10 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him… Romans 8:7,8 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be… in your mind by. Titus 1:15,16 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled… Jump to Previous Alienated Although Amidst Cut Deeds Enemies Engaged Estranged Evil Formerly Hostile Mind Minds Once Past Reconcile Reconciled Sometime Times War Wicked WorksJump to Next Alienated Although Amidst Cut Deeds Enemies Engaged Estranged Evil Formerly Hostile Mind Minds Once Past Reconcile Reconciled Sometime Times War Wicked WorksColossians 1 1. After salutation Paul thanks God for the Colossians' faith;7. confirms the doctrine of Epaphras; 9. prays further for their increase in grace; 14. describes the supremacy of Christ; 21. encourages them to receive Jesus Christ, and commends his own ministry. (21) Alienated.--Not naturally aliens, but estranged. (See Note on Ephesians 2:12.) By wicked works.--Properly, in your wicked works. The enmity of heart is not properly caused by wicked works, but shown in them, and probably intensified by reflex action through them. Verse 21. - And you, at one time being (men) alienated, and enemies in your thought, (engaged) in your wicked works, yet now did he reconcile; or, were ye reconciled [so Meyer, Lightfoot, Westcott and Hort, and R.V. margin, following Codex B] (Colossians 2:11; Colossians 3:7; Ephesians 2:1-3, 11, 12; Ephesians 4:18; Ephesians 5:5-8; 1 Corinthians 6:4; Romans 6:21; 1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 4:3). The combination of ὄντες ("being") with perfect passive participle ("having been alienated") implies a fixed condition, that has become as a part of one's nature (so in Ephesians 4:18, Revised Text). As the opposite of "reconciled," "alienated" is strictly passive, and denotes, not a subjective feeling on the part of the sinner, but an objective determination on the part of God, an exclusion from the Divine favour, from "the kingdom of the Son" and "the lot of the saints" (vers. 12, 13; Ephesians 5:9; Ephesians 2:3, 11-13; Ephesians 4:18; Romans 1:18: comp. usage of LXX in Psalm 68:9; 1 Esdr. 9:4; Sir. 11:34). "Enemies in your thought" sets forth the disposition of the sinner towards God (Romans 8:7; Philippians 3:18: so Alford,Ellicott, Lightfoot). Meyer maintains the passive sense of "enemies," as found in Romans 5:10; Romans 11:28; Galatians 4:16. On the latter view, σῇ διανοίᾳ is instrumental dative, "by," "in virtue of your state of mind;" on the former, it is dative of reference or definition. Διανοία (here only and Ephesians 2:3 and Ephesians 4:18 in St. Paul) has possibly a polemical reference. It denotes in Greek philosophy, the faculty of thought, as opposed to the bodily powers. In Philo's teaching it signifies the higher part of human nature, akin to God, and opposed to evil which belongs to the senses: "Thought (διανοία) is the best thing in us" ('On Fugitives,' § 26); "Every man in regard to his intellect (διανοία) is united to the Divine Word, being an impression or fragment or ray of that blessed nature; but in respect of his body he belongs to the entire world" ('On the Creation of the World,' § 51). But here sin is associated With the intellect in man, and redemption with "the body of Christ's flesh" (ver. 22): comp. notes on "reason," Colossians 2:18, and "body," Colossians 2:23; also Ephesians 4:18, where the reason is vain, the intellect darkened. "Wicked [emphasized by its position in the Greek, denoting active evil; see Trench's 'Synonyms,' on πονηρός] works" is a phrase common in St. John, only used here by St. Paul (comp. Colossians 3:7; Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 6:19, 20; Galatians 5:19; Hebrews 9:14). These works are the practices of life in which the sinner is abidingly excluded from "the kingdom of Christ and God" (Ephesians 5:5), and manifests the radical antipathy of his mind toward God. "Yet [or, 'but'] now:" comp. ver. 26; Colossians 3:8; Ephesians 2:13; Romans 3:21, etc. - a lively form of transition characteristic of St. Paul, primarily temporal, then also logical in sense. "Were ye reconciled" breaks through the grammatical structure of the sentence, as in vers. 26, 27 (see Lightfoot, and Winer's 'N. T. Grammar,' p. 717). If "did he reconcile" (or, "hath he reconciled") be the correct reading, "Christ" is still subject of the verb, as in vers. 19-22, and consistently with Ephesians 2:15, 16. (On "reconcile," see ver. 20.)Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Onceποτε (pote) Particle Strong's 4218: At one time or other, at some time, formerly. From the base of pou and te; indefinite adverb, at some time, ever. you ὑμᾶς (hymas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. were ὄντας (ontas) Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. alienated [ from God ] ἀπηλλοτριωμένους (apēllotriōmenous) Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 526: From apo and a derivative of allotrios; to estrange away, i.e. to be non-participant. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. were hostile ἐχθροὺς (echthrous) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 2190: Hated, hostile; subst: an enemy. From a primary echtho; hateful; usually as a noun, an adversary. in τῇ (tē) Article - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. your minds διανοίᾳ (dianoia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 1271: From dia and nous; deep thought, properly, the faculty, by implication, its exercise. because of ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. [your] τοῖς (tois) Article - Dative Neuter Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. evil πονηροῖς (ponērois) Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural Strong's 4190: Evil, bad, wicked, malicious, slothful. deeds. ἔργοις (ergois) Noun - Dative Neuter Plural Strong's 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act. Links Colossians 1:21 NIVColossians 1:21 NLT Colossians 1:21 ESV Colossians 1:21 NASB Colossians 1:21 KJV Colossians 1:21 BibleApps.com Colossians 1:21 Biblia Paralela Colossians 1:21 Chinese Bible Colossians 1:21 French Bible Colossians 1:21 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Colossians 1:21 You being in past times alienated (Coloss. Col Co) |
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