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* Paul , an apostle of Jesus Anointed through will of God , and Timothy the brother , Colossians * to those in Colosse to holy ones and to faithful ones brethren in Anointed ; favor to you and peace from God a Father of us . * We give thanks to the God and Father of the Lord of us Jesus Anointed always concerning you praying , * having heard the faith of you in Anointed Jesus , and the love that for all the holy ones , * through the hope that being laid up for you in the heavens , which you before heard in the word of the truth of the glad tidings , * of that being present among you , as also in all the world , and is bringing forth fruit and growing , as also in you , from which day you heard and acknowledged the favor of the God in truth ; * as even you learned from Epaphras the beloved fellow –servant of us , who is faithful on behalf of you a servant of the Anointed ; * who also having related to us the of you love in spirit . * Because of this also we , from which day we heard , not we cease on behalf of you praying , and asking , that you may be filled the exact knowledge of the will of him in all wisdom and understanding spiritual ; * to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing , in every work good bringing forth fruit and growing in the exact knowledge of the God ; * with all strength being strengthened according to the power of the glory of him , for all patience and endurance with joy ; * giving thanks to the Father to that having fitted us for the portion of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light ; * who delivered us from the authority of the darkness , and caused a change of sides for the kingdom of the son of the love of himself ; * in whom we have the redemption the forgiveness of the sins ; * who is a likeness of the God of that unseen , first –born of every creation ; Colossians * because in him were created the things all , the things in the heavens and the things on the earth , the things seen and the things unseen , whether thrones , or lordships , or governments , or authorities ; the things all on account of him and for him have been created ; * and he is in advance of all , and the things all in him has been placed together ; Colossians * and he is the head of the body , of the congregation ; who is a beginning , first –born out of the dead ones , so that he might become among all himself pre –eminent ; * because in him it was thought good all the fulness to inhabit , * and by means of him to reconcile the things all to him , having made peace by means of the blood of the cross of him , by means of him , whether the things on the earth , or the things in the heavens . * Even you , once being aliens and enemies in the mind by the works those wicked , now indeed he reconciled , * in the body of the flesh of himself by means of the death , to present you holy ones and blameless ones and irreproachable ones in presence of him ; * if indeed you continue in the faith having been grounded and settled ones , and not being moved away from the hope of the glad tidings of which you heard , of that having been published in all the creation that under the heaven ; of which became I Paul a servant . * Now I rejoice in the sufferings on behalf of you , and I fill up the wants of the afflictions of the Anointed one in the flesh of me on behalf of the body of him , which is the congregation ; * of which became I a servant according to the stewardship of the God that having been given to me for you , to fully set forth the word of the God , * the secret that having been hid from the ages and from the generations , now but was manifested to the holy ones of him ; * to whom wished the God to make known , what the wealth of the glory of the secret of this among the nations , who is Anointed in you , the hope of the glory ; * whom we announce , admonishing every man , and teaching , every man with all wisdom , so that we may present man perfect in Anointed ; * for which also I labor , ardently contending according to the strong –working of him that working strongly in me in power .

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