New American Standard Bible 1995

Colossians 1:18-22

18He is also 1head of 2the body, the church; and He is 3the beginning, 4the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19For 5it was 6the Father’s good pleasure for all 7the 8fullness to dwell in Him, 20and through Him to 9reconcile all things to Himself, having made 10peace through 11the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, 12whether things on earth or things in 13heaven.

21And although you were 14formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, 22yet He has now 15reconciled you in His fleshly 16body through death, in order to 17present you before Him 18holy and blameless and beyond reproach--

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Notes

1. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:22 ↩
2. Colossians 1:18 Eph 1:23; Col 1:24; 2:19 ↩
3. Colossians 1:18 Rev 3:14 ↩
4. Colossians 1:18 Acts 26:23 ↩
5. Colossians 1:19 Or all the fullness was pleased to dwell ↩
6. Colossians 1:19 Eph 1:5 ↩
7. Colossians 1:19 John 1:16 ↩
8. Colossians 1:19 I.e. fullness of deity ↩
9. Colossians 1:20 2 Cor 5:18; Eph 2:16 ↩
10. Colossians 1:20 Rom 5:1; Eph 2:14 ↩
11. Colossians 1:20 Eph 2:13 ↩
12. Colossians 1:20 Col 1:16 ↩
13. Colossians 1:20 Lit the heavens ↩
14. Colossians 1:21 Rom 5:10; Eph 2:3, 12 ↩
15. Colossians 1:22 2 Cor 5:18; Eph 2:16 ↩
16. Colossians 1:22 Rom 7:4 ↩
17. Colossians 1:22 Eph 5:27; Col 1:28 ↩
18. Colossians 1:22 Eph 1:4 ↩

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