Paul, an
apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
Timotheus our brother,
02 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ
which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and
peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
03 We give thanks to God and the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
04 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,
and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
05 For the hope which is laid up for you in
heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of
the truth of the gospel;
06 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:
07 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear
fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister
of Christ;
08 Who also declared unto us your love in the
Spirit.
09 For this cause we also, since the day we heard
it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire
that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his
will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and
increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his
glorious power, unto all patience and
longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light:
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom
of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are
in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions,
or principalities, or powers: all things were
created by him, and for him:
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17 And he is before all things, and by him all
things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church:
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the
dead; that in all things he might have the
preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should
all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of
his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto
himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in
earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and
enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now
hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and
settled, and be not moved away from the hope of
the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was
preached to every creature which is under heaven;
whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and
fill up that which is behind of the afflictions
of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which
is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the
dispensation of God which is given to me for you,
to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages
and from generations, but now is made manifest to
his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the
riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of
glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and
teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may
present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to
his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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