KJ3 Literal Translation
Colossians 1
1 He thanks God for their faith, 14 describes the true Christ, 21 and encourages them to receive their reconciliation through Christ.
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,
2to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ in Colosse: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying continually about you,
4hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love toward all the saints,
5because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, the one which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,
6the one coming to you, as also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit even also among you, from the day in which you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
7even as you also learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-slave, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,
8he also showing to us your love in the Spirit.
9Because of this also, from the day in which we heard, we do not cease praying on your behalf, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
10for you to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work and growing into the full knowledge of God;
11being empowered with all power according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joy;
12giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light,
13who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
14in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins;
15who is the image of the invisible God, the First-begotten of all creation.
16For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible; whether thrones, or lordships, or rulers, or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17And He is before all things, and all things have subsisted in Him.
18And He is the Head of the body, the Assembly, who is the Beginning, the Firstborn out of the dead ones that He having first place in all things;
19because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him,
20and through Him making peace by the blood of His cross, to reconcile all things to Himself; through Him, whether the things on the earth, or the things in the heavens.
21And you then being alienated and a hostile one in your mind by evil works, but now He reconciled
22in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy and without blemish and irreproachable before Him,
23if indeed you continue in the faith having been founded and steadfast, and not being moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, the one being proclaimed in all the creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, became a servant.
24who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and fill up in my flesh the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ on behalf of His body, which is the Assembly,
25of which I became a servant, according to the stewardship of God given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God,
26the mystery having been hidden from the ages and from the generations, but now was revealed to His saints;
27to whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, who is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
28whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man fullgrown in Christ Jesus,
29for which also I labor, struggling according to the working of Him, the One working in me in power.
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