Colossians 1:21 BSB

Colossians 1:21

Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

KJV

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And you, that were sometime alienated - In this work of reconciling heaven and earth, you at Colossae, who were once enemies of God, have been reached. The benefit of that great plan has been extended to you, and it has accomplished in you what it is designed to effect everywhere - to reconcile enemies to God. The word “sometime” here - ποτε pote - means “formerly.” In common with all other men they were, by nature, in a state of enmity against God; compare the notes at Eph 2:1-

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
ποτε	pote	once	G4218 →
ὄντας	ontas	being	G1510 →
ἀπηλλοτριωμένους	apēllotriōmenous	alienated	G526 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐχθροὺς	echthrous	hostile	G2190 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
διανοίᾳ	dianoia	in mind	G1271 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
ἔργοις	ergois	deeds	G2041 →
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
πονηροῖς,	ponērois	evil,	G4190 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
leads to
- Matthew 13:15
  For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts,…
- Ephesians 2:12
  remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Romans 1:21–23
  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- John 12:40
  “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
Through
Ephesians 2:12
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
leads to
- Galatians 4:8
  Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
- 1 Peter 1:3
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- Jeremiah 31:31–34
  Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
- Ephesians 4:18
  They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.