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  • Colossians 1:13
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 13 He rescued us from the authority of the darkness+ and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

  • Colossians 1:13
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 13 ὃς Who ἐρύσατο drew out to self ἡμᾶς us ἐκ out of τῆς the ἐξουσίας authority τοῦ of the σκότους darkness καὶ and μετέστησεν transferred εἰς into τὴν the βασιλείαν kingdom τοῦ of the υἱοῦ Son τῆς of the ἀγάπης love αὐτοῦ, of him,

  • Colossians 1:13
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 13 He delivered us from the authority+ of the darkness and transferred+ us into the kingdom+ of the Son of his love,+

  • Colossians 1:13
    The Bible in Living English
    • 13 who delivered you out of the jurisdiction of darkness and transferred you into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

  • Colossians 1:13
    American Standard Version
    • 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

  • Colossians 1:13
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 13 Who hath rescued us out of the authority of the darkness And translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

  • Colossians 1:13
    King James Version
    • 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 1:13 it-2 169; w14 1/15 11; w02 10/1 18; w95 10/15 20; w92 1/15 9-10; w90 3/15 15; pe 136; rs 232

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 1:13 w81 6/15 26-27; w80 10/1 26-28; w78 3/1 17-20, 23; w78 4/15 31; w73 458-459; w73 686; ad 1004; w66 198; w63 48, 575; ln 20; w62 139, 684; w61 102; w60 700; w57 362; w56 461; nh 206; w47 167

  • Colossians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 1:13

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 169

      The Watchtower,

      1/15/2014, p. 11

      10/1/2002, p. 18

      10/15/1995, p. 20

      1/15/1992, pp. 9-10

      3/15/1990, p. 15

      Live Forever, p. 136

      Reasoning, p. 232

  • Colossians Study Notes—Chapter 1
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 1:13

      the authority of the darkness: Or “the power (domain) of darkness.” Jesus similarly spoke of “the authority of darkness” governing his opposers when he was arrested on the night before his execution. (See study note on Lu 22:53.) Here Paul stresses the spiritual darkness that envelops the system of things under Satan’s control.​—Eph 4:18; 6:12; compare 2Co 4:4 and study note.

      transferred: Paul here says that Christians were rescued from darkness and were now in a better place. He uses a Greek word that can also mean “transplanted.” (1Co 13:2 and study note.) The same Greek word was sometimes used by non-Biblical writers regarding the transfer of entire populations from one land to another. Paul reminds the Colossian Christians how blessed they are to have been lifted out of Satan’s dark domain and transferred to a vastly better kingdom.

      the kingdom of his beloved Son: Paul here speaks of a kingdom that was then in existence, since the verse shows that Christians had already been transferred into it. This kingdom is therefore different from the heavenly Messianic Kingdom, which the Bible shows would not be established until well after Paul’s day. (1Co 6:9, 10; Eph 5:5 and study note; 2Pe 1:10, 11; Re 11:15; 12:10; compare Lu 19:11, 12, 15.) So Paul is referring to a different “kingdom,” one made up of spirit-anointed Christians who are prospective heirs of the heavenly Kingdom. (Jas 2:5) Christ became King, or Ruler, of that kingdom at Pentecost 33 C.E. That spiritual kingdom will exist on earth until the last one of the anointed is taken to heaven. After such spirit-begotten Christians receive their heavenly reward, they will no longer be earthly subjects of the spiritual kingdom of Christ; rather, they will be kings with Christ in heaven.​—Re 5:9, 10.

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