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Key Verse: Colossians 1:13 · NASB1995
Key Verse
“For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,”
Colossians 1:13“Translated” pictures an entire people-group being relocated from one territory to another — and that is exactly what happened to you the moment you believed.
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“For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,”
Colossians 1:13 · NASB1995Colossians 1:13 says you have been “transferred...to the kingdom of His beloved Son” — not gradually emigrating, but moved, in full, the moment you believed, out of one kingdom and into the kingdom of God’s own Son. Your citizenship changed before your circumstances did.
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Read Colossians 1 · NASB95 on Blue Letter BibleAdapted from “The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus” by Lewis Sperry Chafer, from Salvation (Sunday School Times Company, 1917, public domain).
Scripture quotations are from the NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible, 1995 update), © The Lockman Foundation.