Colossians 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother,
2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus, who are at Colossa.
3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
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.
4 because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—
Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which you have towards all the saints.
5 the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel
For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,
6 that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
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.
7 You learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;
8 and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.
Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit.
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
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:
10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God:
11 being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully
Strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,
12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:
13 He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins;
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.
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.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
And he is before all, and by him all things consist.
18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
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:
19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;
20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
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.
21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:
22 But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him:
23 if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
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.
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
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:
25 I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,
Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfill the word of God:
26 the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints. (aiōn g165)
The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints, (aiōn g165)
27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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.
28 We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
29 To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.
