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And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

You were once apart from and even opposed [to God] in both thought and action. But now He [Jesus] has restored you [to God] through His bodily death so that can be presented holy and sinless and without stain before Him. But only if you continue in the faith being stable and committed without wavering from the hope presented in the gospel that you heard and which as been preached in all the earth, and which I, Paul, am a preacher.

Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae confronting false teaching in the form of “human philosophies and traditions”. Earlier in this chapter he references “the word of the truth, the gospel” which came to them and “indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing” (vs 6).