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Colossians 1:22
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he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
In that body of his flesh through death, to make you holy, and vnblameable and without fault in his sight,
But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him—
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,
But now he has made you his friends again. He did this by the death Christ suffered while he was in his body. He did it so that he could present you to himself as people who are holy, blameless, and without anything that would make you guilty before him.
yet Christ has now reconciled you [to God] in His physical body through death, in order to present you before the Father holy and blameless and beyond reproach—
yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
But now He has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence-
But his Son became a human and died. So God made peace with you, and now he lets you stand in his presence as people who are holy and faultless and innocent.
he has now reconciled in the Son's physical body through his death; in order to present you holy and without defect or reproach before himself —
he has now reconciled by the death of his physical body so that he might present you holy, blameless, and without fault before him.Luke 1:75; Ephesians 1:4; 2:15-16; 5:27; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; Titus 2:14; Jude 1:24;">[xr]
hath he reconciled now in the body of his flesh and through his death, to constitute you saints before him without spot and without blame;
to you, he hath now given peace, by the body of his flesh, and by his death; that he might establish you in his presence, holy, without blemish, and without offence;
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy & vnblameable, and vnreprooueable in his sight,
In the body of his fleshe, through death, to present you holye, and vnblameable, & without fault in his syght:
in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
but now you have been reconciled by his physical body through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy and without blemish and irreproachable before Him,
yet He has now reconciled you in His body of flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—
But now God has made you his friends again. He did this through Christ's death in the body so that he might bring you into God's presence as people who are holy, with no wrong, and with nothing of which God can judge you guilty.
but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him—
in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight--
Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him—
In his body of flesh, through means of his death, to present you holy and blameless and unaccusable before him, -
Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:
Through the sacrifice of his body and his death, so that he may raise you before him, holy, and without reproach and blameless:
But now, by means of the physical death of his Son, God has made you his friends, in order to bring you, holy, pure, and faultless, into his presence.
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
he hath now reconciled, By the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and spotless, and unreproveable in his sight:
He has now, in His human body, reconciled to God by His death, to bring you, holy and faultless and irreproachable, into His presence;
now he hath recounselid you in the bodi of his fleisch bi deth, to haue you hooli, and vnwemmyd, and with out repreef bifor hym.
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight:
he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,
in ye body of his flesshe thorowe deeth to make you holy vnblameable and with out faut in his awne syght
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:
in the body of his flesh thorow death, to make you holy, and vnblameable & with out faute in his awne sighte,
through his own death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his own sight:
But Christ has brought you back to God by His death on the cross. In this way, Christ can bring you to God, holy and pure and without blame.
But now, God has brought you home through the only cowboy who could change our hearts. Jesus's death now presents us pure and holy, not by the things we do, but by the blood he shed. We are free from blemish and wart. But we are also free from accusation and condemnation—
yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—
but now He reconciled you in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the body: Romans 7:4, Ephesians 2:15, Ephesians 2:16, Hebrews 10:10, Hebrews 10:20
to: Luke 1:75, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 5:27, 1 Thessalonians 4:7, Titus 2:14, 2 Peter 3:14, Jude 1:24
in his: Job 15:15, Job 25:5, Psalms 51:7, Hebrews 13:21
Reciprocal: Leviticus 8:15 - to make Song of Solomon 2:14 - thy countenance Song of Solomon 4:7 - General Luke 1:6 - blameless Romans 8:4 - That Romans 12:2 - be ye 1 Corinthians 1:8 - blameless 2 Corinthians 4:14 - shall present Ephesians 2:13 - are Colossians 1:20 - having made peace Colossians 1:28 - we may Colossians 4:12 - that 1 Thessalonians 3:13 - unblameable 1 Thessalonians 5:23 - preserved 1 Timothy 3:10 - being 1 Timothy 6:14 - unrebukeable Titus 2:12 - denying Hebrews 3:1 - holy Hebrews 12:10 - partakers 1 Peter 3:18 - being 1 Peter 5:10 - strengthen Revelation 14:5 - without Revelation 22:11 - and he that
Cross-References
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In the body of his flesh through death,.... Or "through his death", as the Alexandrian copy and some others, and all the Oriental versions, read. These words express the means by which that reconciliation was made, which in the virtue and efficacy of it was applied particularly to these Colossians at their conversion whereby their minds were actually reconciled to God, as "in" or "by the body of his flesh"; that is, by the offering up of his body on the accursed tree, in which he bore the sins of his people, and made reconciliation for them: and it is so called either to distinguish it from his mystical and spiritual body the church, of which he is the head before spoken of; or from his glorious and immortal body, as now raised and exalted at God's right hand; and to denote the truth of his human body, that it was a real fleshly body, consisting of flesh and blood as ours does, and the same with ours, and not an aerial, celestial bony, or a mere phantom; and also to signify the infirmity and mortality of it, being, excepting sin, in all points like to ours, and subject to death; and that it was in that body his Father prepared for him, and he assumed; and as he was clothed with it in the days of his flesh, or mortal state, that he made reconciliation for the sins of his people, and that "through death" in it; even the death of the cross, by which he bore the penalty of the law, the curse of it, made satisfaction to justice, obtained life, abolished death, and destroyed him that had the power of it, and fixed a sure and lasting peace for all his saints; his end in which was,
to present you holy and unblamable, and unreproveable in his sight. This presentation of the saints by Christ is either in his own sight, "before himself", as the Arabic version reads it; and is here in this present state, they being considered by him both as sanctified and as justified; he taking delight in the graces of his Spirit, and the exercise of them on himself, though imperfect, and in them as clothed with his spotless righteousness, in which they are perfectly comely, all fair, and without spot: or in the latter day glory, the New Jerusalem church state; when the church will be as a bride prepared for her husband, will be brought into his presence in raiment of needlework, in fine linen clean and white, the righteousness of the saints, and be presented to himself a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; or in the ultimate glory, when all the saints shall be for ever with him, continually before him, and in his sight; which is what his heart was set upon from everlasting, which he had in view in his sufferings and death, and still has in his prayers and preparations: or else this presentation is what has been or will be made before his Father, and in his sight; and which was partly done, when he gathered together all the elect in himself, and represented them on the cross, in the body of his flesh; and partly is now doing in heaven, where he appears in the presence of God for them, bears their names on his breastplate, presents their persons and their cases; and especially will be done at the last day, when he will deliver up the kingdom to the Father, and say, lo, I and the children thou hast given me: and who will be presented "holy" by him; he being their sanctification, and they having all their sins expiated by his sacrifice, and their persons washed and cleansed in his blood, and their hearts sanctified by his Spirit; which sanctification though it is imperfect in this life, yet will be completed by the author of it at death; without perfect holiness no man shall see God, or be presented in his sight: and this is in consequence of the death of Christ and reconciliation by it and a fruit of electing grace, by which persons are chosen in Christ, that they should be holy and without blame; and as here, "unblamable and unreproveable": as they are, not now in themselves, but in Christ, as arrayed with his robe of righteousness and garments of salvation, being all glorious within, and their clothing of wrought gold, in which they will be introduced and presented to himself, and to his Father, faultless, with exceeding joy, and stand so before the throne, and that to all eternity.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In the body of his flesh through death - The death of his body, or his death in making an atonement, has been the means of producing this reconciliation. It:
(1) Removed the obstacles to reconciliation on the part of God - vindicating his truth and justice, and maintaining the principles of his government as much as if the sinner had himself suffered the penalty of the law - thus rendering it consistent for God to indulge the benevolence of his nature in pardoning sinners; and,
(2) It was the means of bringing the sinner himself to a willingness to be reconciled - furnishing the strongest possible appeal to him; leading him to reflect on the love of his Creator, and showing him his own guilt and danger. No means ever used to produce reconciliation between two alienated parties has had so much tenderness and power as those which God has adopted in the plan of salvation; and if the dying love of the Son of God fails to lead the sinner back to God, everything else will fail. The phrase âthe body of his fleshâ means, the body of flesh which he assumed in order to suffer in making an atonement. The reconciliation could not have been effected but by his assuming such a body, for his divine nature could not so suffer as to make atonement for sins.
To present you - That is, before God. The object of the atonement was to enable him to present the redeemed to God freed from sin, and made holy in his sight. The whole work had reference to the glories of that day when the Redeemer and the redeemed will stand before God, and he shall present them to his Father as completely recovered from the ruins of the fall.
Holy - Made holy, or made free from sin; compare Luke 20:36.
And unblameable - Not that in themselves they will not be deserving of blame, or will not be unworthy, but that they will be purified from their sins. The word used here - αÌÌμÏÎ¼Î¿Ï amoÌmos - means, properly âspotless, without blemish;â see Ephesians 1:4, note; Ephesians 5:27, note; Hebrews 9:4, note. It is applied to a lamb, 1 Peter 1:19; to the Savior, Hebrews 9:14, and to the church, Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 5:27; Jude 1:24; Revelation 14:5. It does not elsewhere occur. When the redeemed enter heaven, all their sins will have been taken away; not a spot of the deep dye of inquiry will remain on their souls; Revelation 1:5; Revelation 7:14.
And unreproveable in his sight - There will be none to accuse them before God; or they will be free from all accusation. The law will not accuse them - for the death of their Redeemer has done as much to honor it as their own punishment would have done; God will not accuse them - for he has freely forgiven them; their consciences will not accuse them - for their sins will all have been taken away, and they will enjoy the favor of God as if they had not sinned; holy angels will not accuse them - for they will welcome them to their society; and even Satan will not accuse them, for he will have seen that their piety is sincere, and that they are truly what they profess to be; compare the notes at Romans 8:33-34.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 22. In the body of his flesh — By Christ's assumption of a human body, and dying for man, he has made an atonement for sin, through which men become reconciled to God and to each other.
To present you holy — Having saved you from your sins.
Unblamable — Having filled you with his Spirit, and written his law in your hearts, so that his love, shed abroad in your hearts, becomes the principle and motive to every action. The tree therefore being good, the fruit is also good.
And unreprovable — For, being filled with love, joy, peace, meekness, gentleness, and goodness, against these there is no law; and as they were called to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, and their neighbour as themselves, the whole spirit and design of the law was fulfilled in them, for love is the fulfilling of the law.
In his sight — At the day of judgment. None can enjoy heaven who have not been reconciled to God here, and shown forth the fruits of that reconciliation in being made holy and unblamable, that, when they come to be judged, they may be found unreprovable.
