Colossians 1:21

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness--

Cross References

Romans 1:30

They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.

Ephesians 2:12

Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the Covenants founded on God's Promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.

Ephesians 2:15

And in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them--the Law with its injunctions and ordinances--in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one New Man and thus make peace.

Ephesians 2:19

It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow-citizens with Christ's People and members of God's Household.

Ephesians 4:18

With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.

James 4:4

Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.