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1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother,

2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus, who are at Colossa.

3Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.

4Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which you have towards all the saints.

5For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

6Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world, and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

7As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;

8Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit.

9Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding:

10That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God:

11Strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

12Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

14In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins;

15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

16For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.

17And he is before all, 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 may hold the primacy:

19Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;

20And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

21And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

22Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted, and blameless before him:

23If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

25Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfill the word of God:

26The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints,

27To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.

28Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

29Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

1Paulus Apostolus Jesu Christi per voluntatem Dei, et Timotheus frater:

2eis, qui sunt Colossis, sanctis, et fidelibus fratribus in Christo Jesu.

3Gratia vobis, et pax a Deo Patre nostro, et Domino Jesu Christo. Gratias agimus Deo, et Patri Domini nostri Jesu Christi semper pro vobis orantes:

4audientes fidem vestram in Christo Jesu, et dilectionem quam habetis in sanctos omnes

5propter spem, quæ reposita est vobis in cælis: quam audistis in verbo veritatis Evangelii:

6quod pervenit ad vos, sicut et in universo mundo est, et fructificat, et crescit sicut in vobis, ex ea die, qua audistis, et cognovistis gratiam Dei in veritate,

7sicut didicistis ab Epaphra carissimo conservo nostro, qui est fidelis pro vobis minister Christi Jesu,

8qui etiam manifestavit nobis dilectionem vestram in spiritu.

9Ideo et nos ex qua die audivimus, non cessamus pro vobis orantes, et postulantes ut impleamini agnitione voluntatis ejus, in omni sapientia et intellectu spiritali:

10ut ambuletis digne Deo per omnia placentes: in omni opere bono fructificantes, et crescentes in scientia Dei:

11in omni virtute confortati secundum potentiam claritatis ejus, in omni patientia et longanimitate cum gaudio,

12gratias agentes Deo Patri, qui dignos nos fecit in partem sortis sanctorum in lumine:

13qui eripuit nos de potestate tenebrarum, et transtulit in regnum filii dilectionis suæ,

14in quo habemus redemptionem per sanguinem ejus, remissionem peccatorum:

15qui est imago Dei invisibilis, primogenitus omnis creaturæ:

16quoniam in ipso condita sunt universa in cælis, et in terra, visibilia, et invisibilia, sive throni, sive dominationes, sive principatus, sive potestates: omnia per ipsum et in ipso creata sunt:

17et ipse est ante omnes, et omnia in ipso constant.

18Et ipse est caput corporis Ecclesiæ, qui est principium, primogenitus ex mortuis: ut sit in omnibus ipse primatum tenens:

19quia in ipso complacuit, omnem plenitudinem inhabitare:

20et per eum reconciliare omnia in ipsum, pacificans per sanguinem crucis ejus, sive quæ in terris, sive quæ in cælis sunt.

21Et vos cum essetis aliquando alienati, et inimici sensu in operibus malis:

22nunc autem reconciliavit in corpore carnis ejus per mortem, exhibere vos sanctos, et immaculatos, et irreprehensibiles coram ipso:

23si tamen permanetis in fide fundati, et stabiles, et immobiles a spe Evangelii, quod audistis, quod prædicatum est in universa creatura, quæ sub cælo est, cujus factus sum ego Paulus minister.

24Qui nunc gaudeo in passionibus pro vobis, et adimpleo ea quæ desunt passionem Christi, in carne mea pro corpore ejus, quod est Ecclesia:

25cujus factus sum ego minister secundum dispensationem Dei, quæ data est mihi in vos, ut impleam verbum Dei:

26mysterium, quod absconditum fuit a sæculis, et generationibus, nunc autem manifestatum est sanctis ejus,

27quibus voluit Deus notas facere divitias gloriæ sacramenti hujus in gentibus, quod est Christus, in vobis spes gloriæ,

28quem nos annuntiamus, corripientes omnem hominem, et docentes omnem hominem, in omni sapientia, ut exhibeamus omnem hominem perfectum in Christo Jesu:

29in quo et laboro, certando secundum operationem ejus, quam operatur in me in virtute.

1Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy, a brother,

2to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ Jesus who are at Colossae.

3Grace and peace to you, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying for you always.

4For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that you have toward all the saints,

5because of the hope that has been stored up for you in heaven, which you have heard through the Word of Truth in the Gospel.

6This has reached you, just as it is present in the whole world, where it grows and bears fruit, as it has also done in you, since the day when you first heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

7just as you learned it from Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus.

8And he has also manifested to us your love in the Spirit.

9Then, too, from the day when we first heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and requesting that you be filled with the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of God, being pleasing in all things, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,

11being strengthened in every virtue, in accord with the power of his glory, with all patience and longsuffering, with joy,

12giving thanks to God the Father, who has made us worthy to have a share in the portion of the saints, in the light.

13For he has rescued us from the power of darkness, and he has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

14in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins.

15He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.

16For in him was created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and in him.

17And he is before all, and in him all things continue.

18And he is the head of his body, the Church. He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, so that in all things he may hold primacy.

19For the Father is well-pleased that all fullness reside in him,

20and that, through him, all things be reconciled to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, for the things that are on earth, as well as the things that are in heaven.

21And you, though you had been, in times past, understood to be foreigners and enemies, with works of evil,

22yet now he has reconciled you, by his body of flesh, through death, so as to offer you, holy and immaculate and blameless, before him.

23So then, continue in the faith: well-founded and steadfast and immovable, by the hope of the Gospel that you have heard, which has been preached throughout all creation under heaven, the Gospel of which I, Paul, have become a minister.

24For now I rejoice in my passion on your behalf, and I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.

25For I have become a minister of the Church, according to the dispensation of God that has been given to me among you, so that I may fulfill the Word of God,

26the mystery which had remained hidden to past ages and generations, but which now is manifested to his saints.

27To them, God willed to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ and the hope of his glory within you.

28We are announcing him, correcting every man and teaching every man, with all wisdom, so that we may offer every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

29In him, too, I labor, striving according to his action within me, which he works in virtue.