In all the world— "In all the provinces of the Roman empire," as the phrase often signifies. See Romans 10:18. The words in truth, at the end of the verse, may be referred to their knowledge; and then it should be rendered, since you truly knew the grace of God. But St. Paul seems rather here to mean, the true grace of God, as the gospel is called, 1 Peter 5:12. By the true grace, or unmixed gospel of God, he probably intends what was strongly on his mind,—God's great favour to the Gentiles, in receiving them to be his people,without their submitting to circumcision, and the Jewish law.
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Colossians 1:6
6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: