Colossians:1

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drb @Colossians:1:1 @Paul , an apostle of Jesus Christ , by the will of God , and Timothy , a brother , drb @Colossians:1:2 @To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus , who are at Colossa . drb @Colossians:1:3 @Grace be to you and peace from God our Father , and from the Lord Jesus Christ . We give thanks to God , and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , praying always for you . drb @Colossians:1:4 @Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus , and the love which you have towards all the saints . drb @Colossians:1:5 @For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven , which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel , drb @Colossians:1:6 @Which is come unto you , as also it is in the whole world , and bringeth forth fruit and groweth , even as it doth in you , since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth . drb @Colossians:1:7 @As you learned of Epaphras , our most beloved fellow servant , who is for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus ; drb @Colossians:1:8 @Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit . drb @Colossians:1:9 @Therefore we also , from the day that we heard it , cease not to pray for you , and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will , in all wisdom , and spiritual understanding : drb @Colossians:1:10 @That you may walk worthy of God , in all things pleasing ; being fruitful in every good work , and increasing in the knowledge of God : drb @Colossians:1:11 @Strengthened with all might , according to the power of his glory , in all patience and longsuffering with joy , drb @Colossians:1:12 @Giving thanks to God the Father , who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light : drb @Colossians:1:13 @Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness , and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love , drb @Colossians:1:14 @In whom we have redemption through his blood , the remission of sins ; drb @Colossians:1:15 @Who is the image of the invisible God , the firstborn of every creature : drb @Colossians:1:16 @For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible , whether thrones , or dominations , or principalities , or powers : all things were created by him and in him . drb @Colossians:1:17 @And he is before all , and by him all things consist . drb @Colossians: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 may hold the primacy : drb @Colossians:1:19 @Because in him , it hath well pleased the Father , that all fullness should dwell ; drb @Colossians:1:20 @And through him to reconcile all things unto himself , making peace through the blood of his cross , both as to the things that are on earth , and the things that are in heaven . drb @Colossians:1:21 @And you , whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works : drb @Colossians:1:22 @Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death , to present you holy and unspotted , and blameless before him : drb @Colossians:1:23 @If so ye continue in the faith , grounded and settled , and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard , which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven , whereof I Paul am made a minister . drb @Colossians:1:24 @Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you , and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ , in my flesh , for his body , which is the church : drb @Colossians:1:25 @Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God , which is given me towards you , that I may fulfil the word of God : drb @Colossians:1:26 @The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations , but now is manifested to his saints , drb @Colossians:1:27 @To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles , which is Christ , in you the hope of glory . drb @Colossians:1:28 @Whom we preach , admonishing every man , and teaching every man in all wisdom , that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus . drb @Colossians:1:29 @Wherein also I labour , striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power .

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