New Testament · Letters

Colossians chapter 1

From Paul, an of Jesus by God’s will, and from Timothy our brother --To at , the faithful brothers and sisters in The One: May and be yours from God our Father.We always thank God, the Father of our Jesus The One, when we pray for you,because we’ve heard about your in The One Jesus and the you have for all of God’s people --because of the stored up for you in heaven. You first heard about this hope through the true message of the that has come to you. In the same way it’s and growing all over the world, it has been doing the same among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s undeserved kindness for what it really is.You learned it from , our dear , who faithfully serves The One on our behalf.He also told us about the love has stirred up in you.That’s why, from the day we heard about you, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We keep asking God to fill you with the of what he wants through every kind of and spiritual understanding,so that you can live in a way that is of the Lord and that fully pleases him: producing fruit through every kind of good work and growing in the deep knowledge of God,being strengthened with all according to his , so that you can endure anything and remain patient with joy,giving thanks to the Father, who has made you to share in the of God’s people in the .He us from the of darkness and transferred us into the of the Son he loves,in whom we have the -- the of our .The Son is the of the invisible God, the over all creation.Because through him everything was created -- things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether or or or . Everything was created through him and for him.He existed before everything, and in him everything .He is the of the body, which is . He is the beginning, the , so that he would have first place in absolutely everything.Because God was pleased to have all his live in him,and through him to between himself and all things -- whether things on earth or things in heaven -- by through his , shed on the .And you -- you who were once , in your minds because of the harmful things you did --he has now restored the relationship with you through The One’s , through his death, to present you in his presence as people who , , and .if you continue in your trust, , not shifting from the hope you heard in the good news that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a of this good news.Now I find joy in my sufferings for your sake, and in my own body I am in The One’s for the sake of his body, which is the gathered community.I became its servant by the God gave me for your benefit -- to fully make known the message of God,the that has been hidden for ages and generations, but has now been to .God chose to make known among the the of this mystery, which is this: The One in you -- the hope of .He is the one we , warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we can present everyone in The One.That’s what I work so hard for, with all the he so in me.