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22 Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father’s] presence.

23 [And this He will do] provided that you continue to [a]stay with and in the faith [in Christ], well-grounded and settled and steadfast, not shifting or moving away from the hope [which rests on and is inspired by] the glad tidings (the Gospel), which you heard and which has been preached [b][as being designed for and offered without restrictions] to every person under heaven, and of which [Gospel] I, Paul, became a minister.

24 [Even] now I rejoice in [c]the midst of my sufferings on your behalf. And in my own person I am making up whatever is still lacking and remains to be completed [[d]on our part] of Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of His body, which is the church.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:23 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Colossians 1:23 Adam Clarke, The Holy Bible with A Commentary.
  3. Colossians 1:24 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  4. Colossians 1:24 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

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