Col Colossians, chapter Epistle to the Colossians, chapter 1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the holy ones in Colossae, and to the faithful brothers in Christ: Grace to yöu and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for yöu, Php 1:3having heard of yöur faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that [is] to all the holy ones, Heb 6:10because of the hope that is laid up for yöu in the heavens, which yöu heard of beforehand by the word of the truth of the good news, which has come to yöu, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in yöu, from the day in which yöu heard, and knew the grace of God in truth, Mat 13:8; Jhn 15:16as yöu also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful servant of the Christ for yöu, who also declared to us yöur love in the Spirit. Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for yöu, and asking that yöu may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, Rom 12:2to walk worthily of the LORD, pleasing in all, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God, Eph 4:1; Php 1:27; 1Th 2:12in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy. Act 5:41Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us for the participation of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light, Act 26:18who rescued us out of the authority of the darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of His love, Mat 3:17; Heb 2:15in whom we have the redemption [[through His blood]], the forgiveness of sins, Rom 3:25who is the image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation, Pro 8:22; Heb 1:3because all things were created in Him, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him, Jhn 1:3; Eph 3:9; Heb 1:2and He is before all, and all things have consisted in Him. Jhn 1:1And He is the head of the body—the Assembly—who is a beginning, a firstborn out of the dead, that He might become first in all [things] Himself, Rom 8:29; 1Co 15:20; Eph 1:22because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him, Col 2:9and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself—having made peace through the blood of His Cross—through Him, whether the things on the earth, whether the things in the heavens. Isa 9:6; Luk 2:14And yöu—once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now He reconciled, in the body of His flesh through death, to present yöu holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before Himself, Luk 1:75; Rom 5:10; 1Co 1:2; Eph 1:4; Tit 2:14if yöu also remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which yöu heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant. I now rejoice in my sufferings for yöu, and fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for His body, which is the Assembly, Rom 5:3of which I became a servant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for yöu, to fulfill the word of God, 1Co 4:1; 1Co 9:17the secret that has been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was revealed to His holy ones, Rom 16:25; Eph 3:9to whom God willed to make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in yöu, the hope of the glory, Rom 9:23; Eph 3:17whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, 2Co 11:2for which I also labor, striving according to His working that is working in me in power.1Co 15:10; Php 2:13