²¹ Once you were alienated from God and were enemies^(A) in your minds^(B) because of^[a] your evil behavior.

²³ if you continue^(A) in your faith, established^(B) and firm, and do not move from the hope^(C) held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven,^(D) and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.^(E)