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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul makes it clear that God has now revealed that Christ exchanges the sin of Gentile believers for his holiness.
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# At one time, you also
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"There was a time when you Colossian believers also"
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# were strangers to God
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"were like people whom God did not know" or "had pushed God away"
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# to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach before him
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Paul is describing the Colossians as though Jesus had physically cleaned them, put them in clean clothes, and brought them to stand before God the Father. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# blameless, and above reproach
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Paul uses two words that mean almost the same thing to emphasize the idea of perfection. AT: "perfect" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# before him
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This expression of location stands for "in God's view" or "in God's mind" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# that was proclaimed
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that believers proclaimed (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# to every person created under heaven
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"to every person in the world"
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# the gospel of which I, Paul, became a servant
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Paul was actually a servant of God. AT: "the gospel that I, Paul, serve God by proclaiming" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/reconcile]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/death]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/holy]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/blameless]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/faith]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/goodnews]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/proclaim]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/creation]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heaven]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/paul]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/servant]]
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