Colossians 1:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds, as expressed in your evil actions. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities, American Standard Version (1901) And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, Common English Bible Once you were alienated from God and you were enemies with him in your minds, which was shown by your evil actions. Catholic Public Domain Version And you, though you had been, in times past, understood to be foreigners and enemies, with works of evil, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works: |
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.”
slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.
So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,
They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.