Colossians 1:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

Common English Bible

²² But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death, to present you before God as a people who are holy, faultless, and without blame.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² yet now he has reconciled you, by his body of flesh, through death, so as to offer you, holy and immaculate and blameless, before him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him:

Colossians 1:22 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:24

I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

Job 15:15

God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

Job 25:5

If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,

Psalm 51:7

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Luke 1:75

in holiness and righteousness in his presence all our days.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:14

because we know that the one who raised Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his presence.

2 Corinthians 5:18

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;

Ephesians 1:4

just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.

Ephesians 5:27

so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, so that she may be holy and without blemish.

Colossians 1:28

It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Hebrews 10:10

And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:20

by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, as he works among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish,

Jude 1:24

Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing,