The Sufficiency Of Christ To Keep Us In The Faith – In Colossians 1:22 Paul says that Christ will present us holy, blameless and above reproach, verse 23, if indeed we continue in the faith. This is not a condition laid upon us by God the Father that we have to do something, to receive favour from Him, but rather confirmation from Paul that we are to take responsibility for the salvation given to us, by persevering in the faith.