Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds expressed in your evil actions.
Colossians 1:21
“Alienated” = apallotrioō
“Hostile” = ecthros
But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him
Colossians 1:22
“Reconciled” = apokatallassō
if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.
Colossians 1:23
But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him — if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.
Colossians 1:22-23
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7
Belief in the Gospel changes our posture towards the world and our position in Heaven.
