Jubilee2000 - Colossians - 1

1:1  Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother,

1:2  to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colosse: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3  We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you

1:4  since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the charity [which ye have] toward all the saints,

1:5  for the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye have already heard by the word of the truth of the gospel,

1:6  which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world, and brings forth fruit, as [it does] also in you, since the day ye heard [it] and knew the grace of God in truth,

1:7  as ye also learned of Epaphras, our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ,

1:8  who also declared unto us your charity in [the] Spirit.

1:9  For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

1:10  that ye might walk worthy of the Lord, pleasing [him] in everything, being fruitful in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,

1:11  strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness,

1:12  giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us worthy to participate in the inheritance of the saints in light,

1:13  who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son,

1:14  in whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the remission of sins,

1:15  who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature;

1:16  for by him were all things created, that [are] in the heavens and that [are] in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they are] thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by him and in him;

1:17  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

1:18  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.

1:19  For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fullness dwell

1:20  and by him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his stake, whether [they are] the things in the earth or the things in the heavens.

1:21  And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled [you]

1:22  in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreproveable in his sight

1:23  if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled and [are] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard [and] which is preached to every creature which is under heaven, of which I Paul am made a minister,

1:24  who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which [is] lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the church,

1:25  of which I am made a minister by the dispensation of God which is given to me in you, to fulfil the word of God,

1:26  [even] the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints,

1:27  to whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery in the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

1:28  whom we preach, warning every man and teaching in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

1:29  In which I continue to labour, contending according to his operation, which he works in me mightily.: