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Colossians
New American Standard Bible → New Living Translation

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy.

To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

We are writing to God’s holy people in the city of Colosse, who are faithful brothers and sistersa in Christ. May God our Father give you grace and peace.

We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints;

For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people,

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel

which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.

which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;

This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.

just as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond-servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

You learned about the Good News from Epaphras, our beloved co-worker. He is Christ’s faithful servant, and he is helping us on your behalf.b

and he also informed us of your love in the Spirit.

He has told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.

For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.

so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously

We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,c

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son,

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

who purchased our freedomd and forgave our sins. Christ Is Supreme

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,e

For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through Him and for Him.

for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see — such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.

He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead.f So he is first in everything.

For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,

For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ,

and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.

And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.

yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach —

Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.

I am glad when I suffer for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Christ that continue for his body, the church.

Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,

God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you.

that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints,

This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to God’s people.

to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.

We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.

So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. We want to present them to God, perfectg in their relationship to Christ.

For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.

That’s why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me.

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