Colossians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy my brother, —

Poul, apostle of `Crist Jhesu, bi the wille of God,

2 Unto the holy and faithful brethren in Christ that are, in Colosse, favour unto you, and peace, from our God and Father.

and Tymothe, brother, to hem that ben at Colose, hooli and feithful britheren in Crist Jhesu,

3 We are giving thanks unto God, the Father of our Lord Jesus [Christ], always, for you, offering prayer, —

grace and pees to you of God oure fadir and of the Lord Jhesu Crist. We don thankyngis to God, and to the fader of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, euermore preiynge for you, herynge youre feith in Crist Jhesu,

4 Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which ye have unto all the saints, —

and the loue that ye han to alle hooli men,

5 Because of the hope that is lying by for you in the heavens, of which ye heard before, in the word of the truth of the glad-message,

for the hope that is kept to you in heuenes. Which ye herden in the word of treuthe of the gospel,

6 When it presented itself unto you; even as, in all the world also, it is bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day when ye heard, and came personally to know the favour of God in truth,

that cam to you, as also it is in al the world, and makith fruyt, and wexith, as in you, fro that dai in which ye herden and knewen the grace of God in treuthe.

7 Even as ye learned [it] from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is faithful in our behalf, as a minister of the Christ,

As ye lerneden of Epafras, oure felawe most dereworthe, which is a trewe mynystre of Jhesu Crist for you;

8 Who also hath made evident unto us your love in spirit.

which also schewide to vs youre louyng in spirit.

9 For this cause, we also, from the day when we heard [of you], cease not, in your behalf, praying and asking—that ye may be filled unto the personal knowledge of his will, in all spiritual wisdom and discernment,

Therfor we fro the dai in which we herden, ceessen not to preye for you, and to axe, that ye be fillid with the knowing of his wille in al wisdom and goostli vndurstondyng;

10 So as to walk worthily of the Lord, unto all pleasing, in every good work, bearing fruit, and growing in the personal knowledge of God,

that ye walke worthili to God plesynge bi alle thingis, and make fruyt in al good werk, and wexe in the science of God,

11 With all power, being empowered, according to the grasp of his glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy,

and ben coumfortid in al vertu bi the miyt of his clerenesse, in al pacience and long abiding with ioye,

12 Giving thanks unto the Father that hath made you sufficient for your share in the inheritance of the saints in the light,

that ye do thankyngis to God and to the fadir, which made you worthi in to the part of eritage of hooli men in liyt.

13 Who hath rescued us out of the authority of the darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

Which delyueride vs fro the power of derknessis, and translatide in to the kyngdom of the sone of his louyng,

14 In whom, we have our redemption—the remission of our sins, —

in whom we han ayenbiyng and remyssioun of synnes.

15 Who, is an image of the unseen God, Firstborn of all creation, —

Which is the ymage of God vnuysible, the first bigetun of ech creature.

16 Because, in him, were created all things in the heavens and upon the earth, the things seen and the things unseen, whether thrones or lordships or principalities or authorities, —they all, through him and for him, have been created,

For in hym alle thingis ben maad, in heuenes and in erthe, visible and vnuysible, ether trones, ether dominaciouns, ether princehodes, ethir poweris, alle thingis ben maad of nouyt bi hym, and in hym,

17 And, he, is before all, and, they all, in him, hold together;

and he is bifor alle, and alle thingis ben in hym.

18 And, he, is the head of the body, the assembly, Who is the beginning, Firstborn from among the dead, in order that, he, might become, in all things, himself, pre-eminent; —

And he is heed of the bodi of the chirche; which is the bigynnyng and the firste bigetun of deede men, that he holde the firste dignyte in alle thingis.

19 Because, in him, was all the fullness well pleased to dwell,

For in hym it pleside al plente to inhabite,

20 And, through him, fully to reconcile all things unto him, making peace through the blood of his cross, —[through him]—whether the things upon the earth or the things in the heavens;

and bi hym alle thingis to be recounselid in to hym, and made pees bi the blood of his cros, tho thingis that ben in erthis, ether that ben in heuenes.

21 And, you, who at one time were estranged and enemies in your mind in your wicked works, yet, now, hath he fully reconciled,

And whanne ye weren sumtyme aliened, and enemyes bi wit in yuele werkis,

22 In his body of flesh, through means of his death, to present you holy and blameless and unaccusable before him, —

now he hath recounselid you in the bodi of his fleisch bi deth, to haue you hooli, and vnwemmyd, and with out repreef bifor hym.

23 If, at least, ye are abiding still in the faith, founded and firm, and not to be moved away from the hope of the glad-message which ye have heard, which hath been proclaimed in all creation which is under heaven, —of which, I Paul, have become minister.

If netheles ye dwellen in the feith, foundid, and stable, and vnmouable fro the hope of the gospel that ye han herd, which is prechid in al creature that is vndur heuene. Of which Y Poul am maad mynystre,

24 Now, am I rejoicing in the sufferings on your behalf, and am filling up the things that lack of the tribulations of the Christ, in my flesh, in behalf of his body, which is the assembly,

and now Y haue ioye in passioun for you, and Y fille tho thingis that failen of the passiouns of Crist in my fleisch, for his bodi, that is the chirche.

25 Of which, I, have become minister—according to the administration of God which hath been given unto me to you-ward, to fill up the word of God,

Of which Y Poul am maad mynystre bi the dispensacioun of God, that is youun to me in you, that Y fille the word of God,

26 The sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages and from the generations, but, now, hath been made manifest unto his saints— (aiōn g165)

the priuyte, that was hid fro worldis and generaciouns. But now it is schewid to his seyntis, (aiōn g165)

27 Unto whom God hath been pleased to make known what is the glorious wealth of this sacred secret among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory, —

to whiche God wold make knowun the richessis of the glorie of this sacrament in hethene men, which is Crist in you, the hope of glorie.

28 Whom we are declaring, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man complete in Christ;

Whom we schewen, repreuynge ech man, and techinge `ech man in al wisdom, that we offre ech man perfit in Crist Jhesu.

29 Unto which I am even toiling, contending according to his energy which is energising itself in me with power.

In which thing also Y trauele in stryuynge bi the worching of hym, that he worchith in me in vertu.