Colossians 1 : King James Version
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1 1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
Timotheus our brother, 2To the saints and faithful
brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and
peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3We
give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying
always for you, 4Since we heard of your faith in Christ
Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, 5For
the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before
in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6Which is come
unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it
doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace
of God in truth: 7As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear
fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; 8Who
also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. 9For this
cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for
you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his
will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10That ye
might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in
every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11Strengthened
with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience
and longsuffering with joyfulness; 12Giving thanks unto
the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light: 13Who hath delivered
us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son: 14In whom we have redemption
through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15Who is
the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven,
and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were
created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all
things, and by him all things consist. 18And he is the
head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19For it pleased the Father that in him should all
fulness dwell; 20And, having made peace through the blood
of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I
say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 21And
you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked
works, yet now hath he reconciled 22In the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight: 23If ye continue in the faith
grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the
gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every
creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up
that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for
his body's sake, which is the church: 25Whereof I am made
a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to
me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 26Even the mystery
which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made
manifest to his saints: 27To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles;
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28Whom we
preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom;
that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29Whereunto
I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in
me mightily.