Colossians 1:22

Easy To Read Version

But now Christ has made you God’s friends again. Christ did this by his death while he was in his body. Christ did this so that he could bring you before God. He brings you before God as people who are holy, {\cf2\super [6]} with no wrong in you, and with nothing that God can judge you guilty of.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:24

I keep myself pure and innocent before him.

Job 15:15

God doesn’t even trust his angels. {\cf2\super [26]} \par Compared to God\par even the heavens are not pure.\par

Job 25:5

In Gods eyes,\par even the moon is not pure and bright,\par even the stars are not pure.\par

Psalm 51:7

Use the hyssop plant and do the ceremony\par to make me pure.\par Wash me until I am whiter than snow!\par

Luke 1:75

We will be holy and good before God as long as we live.\par

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died and you became free from the law {\cf2\super [52]} through the body of Christ. Now you belong to someone else. You belong to the One (Christ) that was raised from death. We belong to Christ so that we can be used in service to God.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel jealousy for you. And this jealousy is a jealousy that comes from God. I promised to give you to Christ. Christ must be your only husband. I want to give you to Christ to be his pure bride. {\cf2\super [30]}

2 Corinthians 4:14

God raised the Lord Jesus from death. And we know that God will also raise us with Jesus. God will bring us together with you, and we will stand before him.

2 Corinthians 5:18

So we think about the things we cannot see, not what we see. The things we see continue only a short time. And the things we cannot see will continue forever.

Ephesians 1:4

In Christ, God chose us before the world was made. God chose us in love to be his holy people {\cf2\super [4]} —people with no wrong in us before him.

Ephesians 5:27

Christ died so that he could give the church to himself \{like a bride\} full of glory (beauty). He died so that the church could be pure and without fault, with no evil or sin or any other thing wrong in the church.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

God called us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people that belong only to him—people that are always wanting to do good things.

Hebrews 10:10

Jesus Christ did the things God wanted him to do. And because of that, we are made holy through the sacrifice {\cf2\super [126]} of Christ’s body. Christ made that sacrifice one time—enough for all time.

Hebrews 10:20

We can enter through a new way that Jesus opened for us. It is a living way. This new way leads through the curtain {\cf2\super [134]} —Christ’s body.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ himself died for you. And that one death paid for your sins. He was not guilty, but he died for people who are guilty. He did this to bring you all to God. His body was killed, but he was made alive in the spirit.

2 Peter 3:14

Dear friends, we are waiting for this to happen. So try as hard as you can to be without sin and without fault. Try to be at peace with God.