21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
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That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. …
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; …
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-29)Here is a summary of the doctrine of the gospel concerning the great work of our redemption by Christ. It comes in here not as the matter of a sermon, but as the matter of a thanksgiving; for our salvation by Christ furnishes us with abundant matter of thanksgiving in every view of it: Giving thanks unto the Father , Col. 1:12. He does not discourse of the work of redemption in the natural order o…
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