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Paul's Letter to the Colossians, Chapter 1
{1:1} Paul, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua through the will of God,
and Timothy our brother, {1:2} to the holy ones and faithful
[1>]brothers[<1] in Messiah at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from
God our Father, and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
{1:3} We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Yeshua the
Messiah, praying always for you, {1:4} having heard of your faith in
Messiah Yeshua, and of the love which you have toward all the holy
ones, {1:5} because of the hope which is laid up for you in the
heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the
Good News, {1:6} which has come to you; even as it is in all the world
and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the
day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; {1:7} even as you
learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful
servant of Messiah on our behalf, {1:8} who also declared to us your
love in the Spirit. {1:9} For this cause, we also, since the day we
heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you
may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom
and understanding, {1:10} that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to
please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and
increasing in the knowledge of God; {1:11} strengthened with all
power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and
perseverance with joy; {1:12} giving thanks to the Father, who made us
fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones in light;
{1:13} who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated
us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; {1:14} in whom we have our
redemption,[2] the forgiveness of our sins; {1:15} who is the image of
the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. {1:16} For by him
all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things
visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers; all things have been created through him,
and for him. {1:17} He is before all things, and in him all things are
held together. {1:18} He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is
the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he
might have the preeminence. {1:19} For all the fullness was pleased to
dwell in him; {1:20} and through him to reconcile all things to
himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the
heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
{1:21} You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind
in your evil works, {1:22} yet now he has reconciled in the body of
his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and
blameless before him, {1:23} if it is so that you continue in the
faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the
Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation
under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
{1:24} Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on
my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Messiah in my
flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly; {1:25} of which I
was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was
given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God, {1:26} the mystery
which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been
revealed to his holy ones, {1:27} to whom God was pleased to make
known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles, which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory; {1:28} whom we
proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom,
that we may present every man perfect in Messiah Yeshua; {1:29} for
which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in
me mightily.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:2} The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may
also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[2] {1:14} TR adds "through his blood,"
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