Certain little everyday words can be very important in scripture.
Words like “but” and “therefore.”
Or, in today’s case, the word “if.”
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if…
Col 1:21-23a
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