Alive with Christ (Colossians 2:6–23)
1 ULT And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, BSB BSB: And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 ULT in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authorities of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, BSB BSB: in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
3 ULT in which we all also once lived in the evil desires of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the body and of the minds. And we were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest. BSB BSB: All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
4 ULT But God being rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, BSB BSB: But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5 ULT and we being dead in the trespasses, he made us alive together in Christ— by grace you have been saved— BSB BSB: made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
6 ULT and raised us up with{ him} and seated us with{ him} in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, BSB BSB: And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 ULT so that in the ages that are coming he might show the immeasurably great riches of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. BSB BSB: in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
9 ULT not from works, so that no one may boast. BSB BSB: not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 ULT For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand, so that we would walk in them. BSB BSB: For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
One in Christ (Philippians 2:1–4)
11 ULT Therefore, remember that once you{ were} Gentiles in the flesh, the ones being called“uncircumcised” by the ones being called“circumcised” in the flesh, performed by human hands. BSB BSB: Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
12 ULT For at that time you were apart from Christ, excluded from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. BSB BSB: 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.
15 ULT He abolished the law of the commandments in regulations so that he might make the two into one new man in himself, making peace, BSB BSB: by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
16 ULT and so that he might reconcile both to God as one body through the cross, putting to death the hostility in it. BSB BSB: and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.
17 ULT And he came{ and} proclaimed peace to you, the ones far away and peace to the ones near, BSB BSB: He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
18 ULT for through him both have access in one Spirit to the Father. BSB BSB: For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Christ Our Cornerstone (Isaiah 28:14–22; 1 Corinthians 3:10–15; 1 Peter 2:1–8)
19 ULT So then, you are no longer strangers and foreigners. Instead, you are fellow citizens with the saints and{ members} of the household of God, BSB BSB: Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
20 ULT having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, BSB BSB: built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
21 ULT in whom the whole building, being fit together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, BSB BSB: In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
22 ULT in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit. BSB BSB: And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
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