Cross references
Colossians 1:21
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
Colossians 1:21 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ephesians 2:12 (22 votes) and Titus 3:3–7 (17 votes). 34 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Leviticus 8 to 1 Peter 3.
Which verses does Colossians 1:21 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ephesians 2:1222 votes
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Titus 3:3–717 votes
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, …
- Ephesians 2:1–316 votes
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. …
- Romans 5:9–1015 votes
Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
- Ephesians 4:1815 votes
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
- Ephesians 2:1910 votes
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
- Romans 8:7–89 votes
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–118 votes
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. …
- Titus 1:15–167 votes
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
- Romans 1:304 votes
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
- James 4:42 votes
Which verses point to Colossians 1:21?
The 10 strongest of 34.