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,

2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

and Timothy our brother, to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosse: grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always in our prayers for you:

4 because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—

(having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and your love to 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 which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye have heard before in the word of truth, that is 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, even as in all the world, and is fruitful; as it hath been also among you, from the day in which ye 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 ye also learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you;

8 and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.

who also declared unto 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,

For this cause we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to request that ye 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 ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all 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 his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering 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 unto the Father, who hath made us meet for a portion of the inheritance 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 transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son:

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

in whom we have redemption by his blood, even 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 first-born of the whole creation:

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 by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all were created by Him, and for Him.

17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

He is before all, and by Him all things subsist.

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, which is the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence.

19 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

For it pleased the Father, that all fulness should dwell in Him;

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 by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace by the blood of his cross; by Him only, whether they be things on earth, or things in heaven.

21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

And you that were formerly alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked 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 hath He reconciled in the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his sight:

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 be ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved from the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached throughout the whole creation, of which I Paul am 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.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for the sake of 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,

Of which I was made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I might fully declare the word of God:

26 the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints. (aiōn g165)

even that mystery which was hid from former ages and generations, but is now 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 rich glory of this mystery, among the gentiles; which is this, that Christ is 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, warning 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.

in order to which I also labour, striving earnestly according to his energy which operates in me with power.