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As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Colossians 2:6 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
  • BSB Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
  • NKJV As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
  • NASB Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
  • NLT And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.

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Quick answer

As they received Christ Jesus as Lord, they must continue to live in Him. The Christian life continues the way it began, in Christ.

Overview

This is a pivotal verse: 'as therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him.' They received Christ by faith, and they must keep walking by that same faith and submission to His lordship. Progress in the Christian life is not moving beyond Christ but going deeper into Him.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Col 1:10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 1 Jn 2:6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
  • 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
  • Eph 5:1–2Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
  • Gal 2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
  • 2 Cor 5:7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
  • Col 3:17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
  • Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
  • 2 Jn 1:8–9Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
  • Jude 1:3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
  • 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
  • Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  • Matt 10:40He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
  • 1 Jn 5:11–12And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
  • Isa 2:5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
  • Mic 4:2And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  • 1 Cor 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
  • John 13:20Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
  • John 1:12–13But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

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Christ at the center

The image of the invisible God, firstborn over creation, in whom all things hold together and all the fullness of God dwells bodily — supreme over every power.

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