Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/ylt.lzh/COL.LZH/COL

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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God,
 and Timotheus the brother,
1:2 to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in
 Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the
 Lord Jesus Christ!
1:3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
 Christ, always praying for you,
1:4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love
 that [is] to all the saints,
1:5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens,
 which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good
 news,
1:6 which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is
 bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard,
 and knew the grace of God in truth;
1:7 as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved
 fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the
 Christ,
1:8 who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.
1:9 Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do
 not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled
 with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and
 spiritual understanding,
1:10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in
 every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the
 knowledge of God,
1:11 in all might being made mighty according to the power of
 His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.
1:12 Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the
 participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
1:13 who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and
 did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,
1:14 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the
 forgiveness of the sins,
1:15 who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all
 creation,
1:16 because in him were the all things created, those in the
 heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those
 invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether
 principalities, whether authorities; all things through him,
 and for him, have been created,
1:17 and himself is before all, and the all things in him have
 consisted.
1:18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who
 is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might
 become in all [things] -- himself -- first,
1:19 because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,
1:20 and through him to reconcile the all things to himself --
 having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through
 him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in
 the heavens.
1:21 And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind,
 in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,
1:22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you
 holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
1:23 if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled,
 and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye
 heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under
 the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
1:24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the
 things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh
 for his body, which is the assembly,
1:25 of which I -- I did become a ministrant according to the
 dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil
 the word of God,
1:26 the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the
 generations, but now was manifested to his saints,
1:27 to whom God did will to make known what [is] the riches of
 the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ
 in you, the hope of the glory,
1:28 whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every
 man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in
 Christ Jesus,
1:29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working
 that is working in me in power.
2:1 For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you
 and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in
 the flesh,
2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love,
 and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding,
 to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and
 of the Christ,
2:3 in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the
 knowledge hid,
2:4 and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing
 words,
2:5 for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I
 am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the
 stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;
2:6 as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk
 ye,
2:7 being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the
 faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.
2:8 See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through
 the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance
 of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not
 according to Christ,
2:9 because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the
 Godhead bodily,
2:10 and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all
 principality and authority,
2:11 in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not
 made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of
 the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,
2:12 being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose
 with [him] through the faith of the working of God, who did
 raise him out of the dead.
2:13 And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the
 uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with
 him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,
2:14 having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that
 is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it
 out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
2:15 having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he
 made a shew of them openly -- having triumphed over them in it.
2:16 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in
 respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,
2:17 which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body [is]
 of the Christ;
2:18 let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in
 humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding
 into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the
 mind of his flesh,
2:19 and not holding the head, from which all the body --
 through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit
 together -- may increase with the increase of God.
2:20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of
 the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to
 ordinances?
2:21 -- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --
2:22 which are all for destruction with the using, after the
 commands and teachings of men,
2:23 which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in
 will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body --
 not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.
3:1 If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above
 seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,
3:2 the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,
3:3 for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ
 in God;
3:4 when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also
 we with him shall be manifested in glory.
3:5 Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth
 -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the
 covetousness, which is idolatry --
3:6 because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the
 sons of the disobedience,
3:7 in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;
3:8 but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice,
 evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.
3:9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his
 practices,
3:10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to
 knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
3:11 where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and
 uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but
 the all and in all -- Christ.
3:12 Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved,
 bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness,
 long-suffering,
3:13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any
 one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did
 forgive you -- so also ye;
3:14 and above all these things, [have] love, which is a bond of
 the perfection,
3:15 and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also
 ye were called in one body, and become thankful.
3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom,
 teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and
 spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
3:17 and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, [do] all
 things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the
 God and Father, through him.
3:18 The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in
 the Lord;
3:19 the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;
3:20 the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is
 well-pleasing to the Lord;
3:21 the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be
 discouraged.
3:22 The servants! obey in all things those who are masters
 according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but
 in simplicity of heart, fearing God;
3:23 and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to
 the Lord, and not to men,
3:24 having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the
 recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;
3:25 and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did
 unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.
4:1 The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the
 servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in
 the heavens.
4:2 In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;
4:3 praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to
 us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ,
 because of which also I have been bound,
4:4 that I may manifest it, as it behoveth me to speak;
4:5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time
 forestalling;
4:6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to
 know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
4:7 All the things concerning me make known to you shall
 Tychicus -- the beloved brother, and faithful ministrant, and
 fellow-servant in the Lord --
4:8 whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that he might
 know the things concerning you, and might comfort your hearts,
4:9 with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of
 you; all things to you shall they make known that [are] here.
4:10 Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus,
 the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive
 commands -- if he may come unto you receive him,)
4:11 and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the
 circumcision: these only [are] fellow-workers for the reign of
 God who did become a comfort to me.
4:12 Salute you doth Epaphras, who [is] of you, a servant of
 Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may
 stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,
4:13 for I do testify to him, that he hath much zeal for you,
 and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.
4:14 Salute you doth Lukas, the beloved physician, and Demas;
4:15 salute ye those in Laodicea -- brethren, and Nymphas, and
 the assembly in his house;
4:16 and when the epistle may be read with you, cause that also
 in the assembly of the Laodiceans it may be read, and the
 [epistle] from Laodicea that ye also may read;
4:17 and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou
 didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'
4:18 The salutation by the hand of me, Paul; remember my bonds;
 the grace [is] with you. Amen.