Colossians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God,

2 to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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

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

4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that [is] to all the saints,

(having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and your love to all the saints: )

5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

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 which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;

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 as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

As ye also learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you;

8 who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

9 Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual 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 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to 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 in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

12 Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of 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 who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,

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 the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

in whom we have redemption by his blood, even the remission of sins.

15 who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation:

16 because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

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 and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

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

18 And himself is the head of the body — the assembly — who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all [things] — himself — first,

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 because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

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

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

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 And you — once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

And you that were formerly alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works,

22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

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 also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under the heaven, of which I became — I Paul — a ministrant.

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 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

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 of which I — I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil 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 secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested 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 whom God did will to make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations — which is Christ in you, the hope of the 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 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

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

29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

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