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And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.
Colossians 2:6 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
  • KJV As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye 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,

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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 you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
  • 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
  • Eph 5:1–2Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
  • Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • 2 Cor 5:7for we walk by faith, not by sight.
  • Col 3:17Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
  • Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
  • 2 Jn 1:8–9Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
  • Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
  • 1 Jn 5:20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
  • Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
  • Matt 10:40He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
  • 1 Jn 5:11–12The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  • Isa 2:5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
  • Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 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 will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
  • 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
  • John 13:20Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
  • John 1:12–13But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in 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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