he says, ‘It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.’
Colossians 3:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [In this new creation all distinctions vanish.] There is no room for and there can be neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, [nor difference between nations whether alien] barbarians or Scythians [who are the most savage of all], nor slave or free man; but Christ is all and in all [everything and everywhere, to all men, without distinction of person]. American Standard Version (1901) where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all. Common English Bible In this image there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all things and in all people. Catholic Public Domain Version where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, servant nor free. Instead, Christ is everything, in everyone. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all, and in all. |
he says, ‘It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.’
The Lord has displayed his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of distress, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and they will say, ‘Our ancestors inherited only lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.’
You will allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you, who have fathered children among you. You will treat them like native-born Israelites; along with you, they will be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
I will sow her in the land for myself, and I will have compassion on Lo-ruhamah; I will say to Lo-ammi: You are my people, and he will say, ‘You are my God.’
so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name , – this is the declaration of the Lord; he will do this.
and many nations will come and say, ‘Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about his ways So that we may walk in his paths.’ For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
‘Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and become my people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.
‘My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,’ says the Lord of Armies.
Jesus answered, ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.
I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.
so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord – even all the Gentiles who are called by my name – declares the Lord who makes these things
The local people showed us extraordinary kindness. They lit a fire and took us all in, since it was raining and cold.
When the local people saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, ‘This man, no doubt, is a murderer. Even though he has escaped the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.’
I am bound both to Greeks and barbarians, , both to the wise and the foolish.
since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord of all richly blesses all who call on him.
The righteousness of God is through faith in Jesus Christ , to all who believe, since there is no distinction.
Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
For we were all baptised by one Spirit into one body #– #whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free #– #and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.
Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
For he is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In his flesh,
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.
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,
The Gentiles are co-heirs, members of the same body, and partners in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.
and you have been filled by him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one #– #that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching but goes beyond it does not have God. The one who remains in that teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son.