riversident@Colossians:1:2 @ to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ in Colossae: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father!
riversident@Colossians:1:5 @ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news
riversident@Colossians:1:6 @ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth.
riversident@Colossians:1:7 @ So you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ in your behalf,
riversident@Colossians:1:9 @ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,
riversident@Colossians:1:10 @ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God.
riversident@Colossians:1:11 @ May you be strengthened with all strength according to his glorious power, so as to have all patience and endurance.
riversident@Colossians:1:12 @ May you joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy in light.
riversident@Colossians:1:16 @ for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or archangels or powers \'97 all things have been created through him and for him,
riversident@Colossians:1:18 @ And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be first in all things,
riversident@Colossians:1:20 @ and to reconcile all things to himself through him, making peace through the blood of his cross \'97 all things, I say, whether on earth or in heaven.
riversident@Colossians:1:23 @ if you remain in the faith, firm and steadfast, never moving from the hope of the good news which you have heard and which has been proclaimed in all the creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a servant.
riversident@Colossians:1:24 @ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.
riversident@Colossians:1:25 @ I became a servant of the church according to the commission from God given to me for you, to deliver fully God's message,
riversident@Colossians:1:27 @ to whom God willed to make known what is the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory.
riversident@Colossians:1:28 @ And we are announcing him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may present every man complete in Christ.