Colossians 1:21 - Tree of Life Version Once you were alienated from God and hostile in your attitude by wicked deeds. 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 I may take hold of the house of Israel in their hearts. For they have all become estranged from Me through their idols.’”
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents.
At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
the law code of mitzvot contained in regulations. He did this in order to create within Himself one new man from the two groups, making shalom,
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.
You adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.