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Colossians 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of
God, and Timotheus our brother,
2 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.
3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and
of the love which ye have to all the saints,
5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,
whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of
the gospel;
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:
7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear
fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of
Christ;
8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
9 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:
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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