Colossians 1

1 PAULOS, an apostle of Jeshu the Meshiha by the will of Aloha, and the brother Timotheos,

Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Timothy,

2 to those who are in Kulosos, the holy brethren and believers in Jeshu Meshiha: peace be with you, and grace from Aloha our Father.

to the saints who are in Colossae and the faithful brethren in Christ. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

3 We give thanks to Aloha the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha in all time, and pray on your behalf,

We give thanks to God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,

4 even from our hearing of your faith in Jeshu Meshiha, and of your love to all the saints;

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the divine love which you have toward all the saints.

5 for the hope which is kept for you in heaven, which at the first you heard through the word of the truth of the gospel,

on account of the hope which awaits you in the heavens, which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

6 which is preached to you, as also to all the world, and increaseth and giveth fruits, as also in you from the day that you heard, and knew the grace of Aloha in truth,

having come to you, as it is indeed in the whole world bearing fruit and increasing, as also among you, from the day on which you heard and have known the grace of God in truth;

7 as you learned from Epaphra our beloved companion, who is himself for you a faithful minister of the Meshiha,

as you have learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is the faithful minister of Christ your behalf,

8 and who hath made known to us your love, which is in the Spirit.

who also having revealed to us your divine love in the Spirit.

9 ON account of this also we, from the day that we heard, have not ceased to pray for you, and to supplicate that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of Aloha in all wisdom and in all spiritual understanding,

Therefore we, from the day on which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the perfect knowledge of his will in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding,

10 and may walk according to that which is just, and may please Aloha in all good works, and may yield fruit, and increase in the knowledge of Aloha;

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all loyalty, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the perfect knowledge of God.

11 and in all power be empowered according to the greatness of his glory in all patience and prolongedness of spirit:

being impowered with all power, according to the might of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy;

12 and with joy may give thanks to Aloha the Father, who hath fitted us for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light,

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us worthy unto a participation of the inheritance of the saints in light;

13 and hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

who delivered us from the power of darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

14 in whom we have redemption and the forgiveness of sins:

in whom we have redemption, the remission of sins:

15 who is the image of Aloha the unseen, and the first-born of all the creatures.

who is the image of the invisible God, being the first begotten of all creation,

16 And by him was every thing created that is in heaven and in earth; all that is seen, and all that is unseen, whether thrones or dominions, or princes or powers; all things by his hand and through him were created;

because in him all things are created, in the heavens and upon the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All things were created by him, and unto him;

17 and he is before all, and every thing by him subsisteth.

and he before all things, and all things consist in him:

18 And he is the head of the body of the church, (he) who is the chief and first-born from among the dead, that he should be preeminent in all.

and himself is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, in order that in all things himself may be preeminent:

19 For in him (the Father) hath willed all fulness to dwell;

because in him all fulness is pleased to dwell;

20 and by him to reconcile all things to himself, and to make peace through the blood of his cross, (even) by him, whether they be inhabitants in earth or in heaven.

and through him, to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross: through him, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.

21 YOU also, who before were aliens and adversaries in your minds by your evil works,

And you, being at one time aliens and enemies in your minds on account of wicked works, nevertheless he has now reconciled

22 hath he reconciled now in the body of his flesh and through his death, to constitute you saints before him without spot and without blame;

in the body of his cross through death, to present you holy and blameless and unreprovable before him,

23 if you continue in your faith, your foundation being firm, and be not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, and which is proclaimed to every creature who is under heaven, of which I, Paulos, am made a minister.

if you abide in the faith, having been grounded and firm, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, having been preached in all creation which is under heaven; whose minister I Paul became.

24 I rejoice in the sufferings which are on your account, and fulfil the void of the afflictions of the Meshiha in my flesh for the sake of his body,

Now I rejoice in sufferings in your behalf, and am filling up the residue of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the church;

25 which is the church; of which I am made a minister according to the dispensation of Aloha, which was given to me for you, to accomplish the word of Aloha;

whose minister I became, according to the economy of God which was given to me unto you, to fulfill the word of God,

26 that mystery which was hidden from ages and generations, but now hath been revealed unto his saints. (aiōn g165)

the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from the generations: but is now made manifest to his saints, (aiōn g165)

27 To whom Aloha hath willed to make known what is the opulence of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is, The Meshiha, who in you (is) the hope of glory;

to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

28 whom we proclaim, and (concerning whom) we teach and inform every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Jeshu Meshiha;

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

29 for which also I labour and contend, according to the help of the power which is given to me.

unto which I also labor, agonizing according to his energy, working in me with power.