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1:1 Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus, by God's will, and Timotheus
the brother,
1:2 to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which [are] in
Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father [and Lord
Jesus Christ].
1:3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ continually [when] praying for you,
1:4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love
which ye have towards all the saints,
1:5 on account of the hope which [is] laid up for you in the
heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of
the glad tidings,
1:6 which are come to you, as [they are] in all the world, [and]
are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the
day ye heard [them] and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:
1:7 even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman,
who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
1:8 who has also manifested to us your love in [the] Spirit.
1:9 For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard [of your
faith and love], do not cease praying and asking for you, to
the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his
will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
1:10 [so as] to walk worthily of the Lord unto all
well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by
the true knowledge of God;
1:11 strengthened with all power according to the might of his
glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy;
1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for
sharing the portion of the saints in light,
1:13 who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and
translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love:
1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
1:15 who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all
creation;
1:16 because by him were created all things, the things in the
heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the
invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or
authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.
1:17 And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by
him.
1:18 And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is
[the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might
have the first place in all things:
1:19 for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to
dwell,
1:20 and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made
peace by the blood of his cross -- by him, whether the things
on the earth or the things in the heavens.
1:21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by
wicked works, yet now has it reconciled
1:22 in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy
and unblamable and irreproachable before it,
1:23 if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not
moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have
heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which
[is] under heaven, of which *I* Paul became minister.
1:24 Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that
which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for
his body, which is the assembly;
1:25 of which *I* became minister, according to the dispensation
of God which [is] given me towards you to complete the word of
God,
1:26 the mystery which [has been] hidden from ages and from
generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;
1:27 to whom God would make known what are the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you
the hope of glory:
1:28 whom *we* announce, admonishing every man, and teaching
every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every
man perfect in Christ.
1:29 Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working,
which works in me in power.
2:1 For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and
those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in
flesh;
2:2 to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united
together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the mystery of God;
2:3 in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of
knowledge.
2:4 And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by
persuasive speech.
2:5 For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in
spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of
your faith in Christ.
2:6 As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord,
walk in him,
2:7 rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even
as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
2:8 See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey
through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching
of men, according to the elements of the world, and not
according to Christ.
2:9 For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;
2:10 and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all
principality and authority,
2:11 in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not
done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in
the circumcision of the Christ;
2:12 buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also
raised with [him] through faith of the working of God who
raised him from among the dead.
2:13 And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision
of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having
forgiven us all the offences;
2:14 having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which [stood
out] against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also
out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
2:15 having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a
show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by it.
2:16 Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in
matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,
2:17 which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of
Christ.
2:18 Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing
his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into
things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of
his flesh,
2:19 and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body,
ministered to and united together by the joints and bands,
increases with the increase of God.
2:20 If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world,
why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to
ordinances?
2:21 Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,
2:22 (things which are all for destruction in the using [of
them]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men,
2:23 (which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary
worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in
a certain honour,) to [the] satisfaction of the flesh.
3:1 If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the
things [which are] above, where the Christ is, sitting at [the]
right hand of God:
3:2 have your mind on the things [that are] above, not on the
things [that are] on the earth;
3:3 for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in
God.
3:4 When the Christ is manifested who [is] our life, then shall
*ye* also be manifested with him in glory.
3:5 Put to death therefore your members which [are] upon the
earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and
unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
3:6 On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the
sons of disobedience.
3:7 In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these
things.
3:8 But now, put off, *ye* also, all [these] things, wrath,
anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.
3:9 Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with
his deeds,
3:10 and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge
according to [the] image of him that has created him;
3:11 wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and
uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but
Christ [is] everything, and in all.
3:12 Put on therefore, as [the] elect of God, holy and beloved,
bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness,