Colossians 3:11 meaning and explanation

Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Colossians 3:11, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul is describing the new community Christ creates. Writing to believers in Colossae, he lists the divisions that normally separated people in his world: religious background (Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised), culture (barbarian, Scythian, the latter often viewed as the wildest of outsiders), and social status (slave or free).

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