Reconciled and Steadfast

Faith, Fruit, and the Supremacy of Christ · Colossians 1

Story guide: Visual essay — artwork is an interpretation. Anonymous neighbors illustrate reconciliation; their encounter is not narrated in the letter. Verses 21–23 concern reconciliation through Christ’s death and continuing in gospel hope.

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21And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind in evil deeds—

22But now he has reconciled you in his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and beyond reproach before him,

23if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.

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