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Colossians
1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God,
and Timothy, a brother,
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus,
who are at Colossa.
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from
the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, and the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for
you.
Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which
you have towards all the saints.
For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which
you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,
Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world,
and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth
in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of
God in truth.
As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow
servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ
Jesus;
Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit.
Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease
not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled
with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom, and spiritual
understanding:
That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing;
being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in
the knowledge of God:
Strengthened with all might, according to the power
of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with
joy,
Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy
to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and
hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his
love,
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission
of sins;
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature:
For in him were all things created in heaven and on
earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations,
or principalities, or powers: all things were created
by him and in him.
And he is before all, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things he may hold the primacy:
Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that
all fullness should dwell;
And through him to reconcile all things unto himself,
making peace through the blood of his cross, both as
to the things that are on earth, and the things that
are in heaven.
And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies
in mind in evil works:
Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and
blameless before him:
If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled,
and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you
have heard, which is preached in all the creation that
is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up
those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ,
in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:
Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation
of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil
the word of God:
The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations,
but now is manifested to his saints,
To whom God would make known the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ,
in you the hope of glory.
Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching
every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man
perfect in Christ Jesus.
Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working
which he worketh in me in power.
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