Colossians 3:11

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.”

— WEB

“Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.”

— KJV

“where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Galatians 3:28-29 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
1 Corinthians 12:13 "For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one …"
Romans 10:12 "For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him."
Ephesians 3:6 "that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good …"
Ephesians 1:23 "which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all."
Romans 9:24-26 "us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?"
Romans 3:29 "Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,"
Galatians 5:6 "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love."

Commentary

Where--Translate, "Wherein," namely, in the sphere of the renewed man. neither . . . nor . . . nor . . . nor--Translate as Greek, "There is no such thing as Greek and Jew (the difference of privilege between those born of the natural seed of Abraham and those not, is abolished), circumcision and uncircumcision (the difference of legal standing between the circumcised and uncircumcised is done away, Gal 6:15) --bondman, freeman." The present Church is one called out of the flesh, and the present world-course (Eph 2:2), wherein such distinctions exist, to life in the Spirit, and to the future first resurrection: and this because Satan has such power now over the flesh and the world. At Christ's coming when Satan shall no longer rule the flesh and the world, the nations in the flesh, and the word in millennial felicity, shall be the willing subjects of Christ and His glorified saints (Dan 7:14, Dan 7:22, Dan 7:27; Luk 19:17, Luk 19:19; Rev 20:1-6; Rev 3:21). Israel in Canaan was a type of that future state when the Jews, so miraculously preserved distinct now in their dispersion, shall be the central Church of the Christianized world.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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