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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Colossians 1 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/colossians/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/colossians/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Colossians 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../philippians/4.htm" title="Philippians 4">◄</a> Colossians 1 <a href="../colossians/2.htm" title="Colossians 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/colossians/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Greetings from Paul and Timothy<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../philippians/1.htm">Philippians 1:1–2</a>; <a href ="../philemon/1.htm">Philemon 1:1–3</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>To the holy among the Colossians, and the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.<p> <A name="4"></a><p class="hdg">Thanksgiving and Prayer<br /><span 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>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We return thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Being present to you as also in all the world; and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day which ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth: <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As also ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellowservant, who is a faithful servant of Christ for you; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He also having manifested to us your love in the Spirit.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light:<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love: <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Supremacy of the Son<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../hebrews/1.htm">Hebrews 1:1–14</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he is before all, and all things have been established by him. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In the body of his flesh by death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable before him: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If indeed ye remain in the faith, founded and firmly fixed, and not moved aside from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I Paul was a servant;<p> <A name="25"></a><p class="hdg">Paul’s Suffering for the Church<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_corinthians/11.htm#16">2 Corinthians 11:16–33</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Of which I was a servant, according to the stewardship of God, given to me for you, to complete the word of God; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The mystery hid from times immemorial, and from generations, and now has been manifested to his holy ones: <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Whom we announce, reminding every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfected in Christ Jesus: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For which also I am wearied, struggling according to his operation, working in me in power.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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