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Grace to you and peace from God our Father [and Lord Jesus Christ].</p> <a name="3" id="3"></a><p class="hdg">Thanksgiving and Prayer<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_corinthians/1.htm#4">1 Corinthians 1:4-9</a>; <a href="../philippians/1.htm#3">Philippians 1:3-11</a>; <a href="../2_thessalonians/1.htm#3">2 Thessalonians 1:3-4</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ continually [when] praying for you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which ye have towards all the saints, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>on account of the hope which [is] laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>which are come to you, as [they are] in all the world, [and] are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard [them] and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>who has also manifested to us your love in [the] Spirit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard [of your faith and love], do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>[so as] to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for sharing the portion of the saints in light,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;</p> <a name="15" id="15"></a><p class="hdg">The Supremacy of Christ<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../hebrews/1.htm">Hebrews 1:1-14</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to dwell, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross -- by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which [is] under heaven, of which *I* Paul became minister.</p> <a name="24" id="24"></a><p class="hdg">Paul's Suffering for the Church<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_corinthians/11.htm#16">2 Corinthians 11:16-33</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>of which *I* became minister, according to the dispensation of God which [is] given me towards you to complete the word of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>the mystery which [has been] hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>whom *we* announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Darby Bible Translation<br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="//intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../philippians/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Philippians 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Philippians 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../colossians/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Colossians 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Colossians 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/colossians/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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