1Colossians 1

1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother,Select Colossians 1:1

2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colosse: Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Select Colossians 1:2

3We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,Select Colossians 1:3

4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [which ye have] to all the saints,Select Colossians 1:4

5For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye have heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;Select Colossians 1:5

6Which is come to 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:Select Colossians 1:6

7As ye also learned from Epaphras our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;Select Colossians 1:7

8Who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.Select Colossians 1:8

9For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;Select Colossians 1:9

10That ye may walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;Select Colossians 1:10

11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness;Select Colossians 1:11

12Giving thanks to the Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:Select Colossians 1:12

13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his beloved Son:Select Colossians 1:13

14In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:Select Colossians 1:14

15Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:Select Colossians 1:15

16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are upon earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:Select Colossians 1:16

17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.Select Colossians 1:17

18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all [things] he may have the pre-eminence.Select Colossians 1:18

19For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fullness dwell;Select Colossians 1:19

20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, [I say], whether [they are] things on earth, or things in heaven.Select Colossians 1:20

21And you, that were formerly alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled,Select Colossians 1:21

22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight:Select Colossians 1:22

23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [are] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which hath been preached to every creature which is under heaven; of which I Paul am made a minister;Select Colossians 1:23

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:Select Colossians 1:24

25Of which I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;Select Colossians 1:25

26[Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages, and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:Select Colossians 1:26

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:Select Colossians 1:27

28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.Select Colossians 1:28

29For which I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.Select Colossians 1:29