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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
 Timotheus [our] brother,
1:2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at
 Colosse: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father
 and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus
 Christ, praying always for you,
1:4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the
 love [which ye have] to all the saints,
1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye
 heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
1:6 Which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world; and
 bringeth forth fruit, as [it doth] also in you, since the day
 ye heard [of it], and knew the grace of God in truth:
1:7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who
 is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
1:8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not
 cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled
 with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
 understanding;
1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,
 being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the
 knowledge of God;
1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious
 power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to
 be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath
 translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:
1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the
 forgiveness of sins:
1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
 every creature:
1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and
 that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be]
 thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things
 were created by him, and for him:
1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the
 beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he
 might have the preeminence.
1:19 For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness
 dwell;
1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by
 him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say],
 whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.
1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your]
 mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy
 and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be]
 not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have
 heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is
 under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that
 which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for
 his body's sake, which is the church:
1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation
 of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
1:26 [Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
 generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
1:27 To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the
 glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in
 you, the hope of glory:
1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man
 in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ
 Jesus:
1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working,
 which worketh in me mightily.
2:1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you,
 and [for] them at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen
 my face in the flesh;
2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
 love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
 understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God,
 and of the Father, and of Christ;
2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with
 enticing words.
2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in
 the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the
 stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so]
 walk ye in him:
2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as
 ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain
 deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
 world, and not after Christ.
2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all
 principality and power:
2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made
 without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh
 by the circumcision of Christ:
2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with
 [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath
 raised him from the dead.
2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of
 your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having
 forgiven you all trespasses;
2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against
 us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
 nailing it to his cross;
2:15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a
 shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
 respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
 [days]:
2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of
 Christ.
2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary
 humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things
 which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints
 and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together,
 increaseth with the increase of God.
2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of
 the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject
 to ordinances,
2:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
2:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the
 commandments and doctrines of men?
2:23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship,
 and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to
 the satisfying of the flesh.
3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are
 above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
 earth.
3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
3:4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye
 also appear with him in glory.
3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
 fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
 concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the
 children of disobedience:
3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in
 them.
3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
 blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old
 man with his deeds;
3:10 And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in
 knowledge after the image of him that created him:
3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
 uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but
 Christ [is] all, and in all.
3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
 bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
 longsuffering;
3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any
 man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so
 also [do] ye.
3:14 And above all these things [put on] charity, which