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align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New King James Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">King James Bible</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus <i>our</i> brother,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ <i>who are</i> in Colosse: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace <i>be</i> unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love <i>which ye have</i> to all the saints,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">which has come to you, as <i>it has</i> also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as <i>it is</i> also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Which is come unto you, as <i>it is</i> in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as <i>it doth</i> also in you, since the day ye heard <i>of it</i>, and knew the grace of God in truth:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For this cause we also, since the day we heard <i>it</i>, 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;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing <i>Him,</i> being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed <i>us</i> into the kingdom of the Son of His love,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated <i>us</i> into the kingdom of his dear Son:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In whom we have redemption through his blood, <i>even</i> the forgiveness of sins:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether <i>they be</i> thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all <i>things</i> he might have the preeminence.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For it pleased <i>the Father that</i> in Him all the fullness should dwell,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For it pleased <i>the Father</i> that in him should all fulness dwell;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, <i>I say</i>, whether <i>they be</i> things in earth, or things in heaven.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in <i>your</i> mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and <i>be</i> not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, <i>and</i> which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who 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:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2"><i>Even</i> the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">To whom God would make known what <i>is</i> the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">To this <i>end</i> I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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