1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ in Colossae. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
3 We give thanks always to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
5 because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, which you have heard about beforehand in the word of truth, the gospel,
6 that has come to you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day you heard about and understood the grace of God in truth,
7 just as you learned
9 Because of this also we, from the day we heard about
10 so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord,
11 enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy,
12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light,
13 who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred
14 in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins,
15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all
16 because all
17 and he himself is before all
18 and he himself is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in everything,
19 because he was well pleased
20 and through him to reconcile all
21 And
22 but now he has reconciled
23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and steadfast and not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,
25 of which I became a minister, according to God’s stewardship which was given to me for you, to complete the word of God,
26 the mystery
27 to whom God wanted to make known what
28 whom we proclaim,
29 for which