Bible verse
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
Colossians 1:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from Colossians 1.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
22 But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
23 if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
25 I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,
KJV
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
ASV
And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
ERV
And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath he reconciled
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